Rallye France Alsace 2013

[Mintexmemory]

Good one! But I hope now Sordo without the pressure of having to score point for manufacturers in France can do something more!

Different pressure, the unspoken team order that you aren't allowed to challenge Couilles d'or

[dimviii]

Different pressure, the unspoken team order that you aren't allowed to challenge Couilles d'or

last weekend you saw that this ''unspoken team order'' exists?
i didn t .

[Mintexmemory]

last weekend you saw that this ''unspoken team order'' exists?
i didn t .

You misunderstand - Of course there were no team orders last weekend, the mice are allowed to play so long as the cat isn't in the house. The atmosphere in the Citroen team will be entirely ( even unintentionally ) different when Golden Balls is making his grand exit

[dimviii]

mices not allowed?.... Does somebody didnt allowed Mikko and Sordo to win this year?
Maybe you want to say ''Loeb is lucky'' but you cant find the way to express it?
Sordo and Mikko just they can t drive fast.Thats all,without hiding between words.

[Mintexmemory]

mices not allowed?.... Does somebody didnt allowed Mikko and Sordo to win this year?
Maybe you want to say ''Loeb is lucky'' but you cant find the way to express it?
Sordo and Mikko just they can t drive fast.Thats all,without hiding between words.

To be explicit
a) Loeb is brilliant, not just in car control but also the psychology of winning
b) Those who suffer most from this psychological stress are his team mates. They see the love the team lavish on the leader and long for that feeling. Sorry, there can be only one.
c) All season the team has just been waiting for 'how it used to be when SL was there all the time.
d) Sordo was suddenly faced with a 'perform or you'll be replaced' situation and was finally jerked out of the cycle. Mikko definitely hasn't. Australia is his equivalent rally.
e) The mice are lab mice they have conditioned themselves because they don't want to be in the situation that Ogier was in - absence of love is better than hate.
f) Clearly Sordo and Hirvonen are quick drivers but they have been / are losing their internal battles

[dimviii]

To be explicit
a) Loeb is brilliant, not just in car control but also the psychology of winning

yes you are right.

b) Those who suffer most from this psychological stress are his team mates. They see the love the team lavish on the leader and long for that feeling. Sorry, there can be only one.

Mikkos and Danis perormance this year(and previous years too) showed why there is only one.They just can t do the job,with an excellent car,and a winning team.

c) All season the team has just been waiting for 'how it used to be when SL was there all the time.

cant understant exactly what you mean.

d) Sordo was suddenly faced with a 'perform or you'll be replaced' situation and was finally jerked out of the cycle. Mikko definitely hasn't. Australia is his equivalent rally.

what do you suggest,to wait one more year for Mikko to be faster from Neuville at gravel,or to wait more for Sordo(the tarmac specialist) to find his speed at asphalt against Latvala,Ogier,and to be faster than 6th at gravel rallies?

e) The mice are lab mice they have conditioned themselves because they don't want to be in the situation that Ogier was in - absence of love is better than hate.

no they haven t conditioned themselves to laborattory mices because of that reason.Mikko has became slow even inside his home,and Dani hasnt good the speed at all at gravel,and at asphalt is not the fastst driver.

f) Clearly Sordo and Hirvonen are quick drivers but they have been / are losing their internal battles

if you loose your internal battle,figure out about the external battles..

[stefanvv]

Hirvonen was faster with Ford, still not enough for winning pace, but faster. May be he has problem to adapt to DS3 or the team, for sure there is some. It is strange he looked faster last year when Loeb was in the neighborhood. Probably he hoped this year to be easy title for him as VW were only newcomers, may be it's psychological. Other strange thing I find is Loeb decided to drive in Sweden & Argentina. Clearly Hirvonen's best performances last year imho.

[danon]

[NxOxT]

The pain Loeb sustained on every sick dog of rallying either he is a driver or a fan will stay here for long long time... He gave such a brutal beating to all the doubters all these years that he sent them to live in star trek land and imagine things like team favoiuritism and other fantasy star wars stuff...

The pain little doggies will never go away...get used to it....

[stefanvv]

Amen. One Rally to go