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Thread: [ERC] Sata Rallye Acores
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28th April 2013, 21:19 #451
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Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
2. Breen has far more gravel experience than tarmac. He did not grow up on the Irish roads - he Contested the British, Irish and WRC Fiesta ST championship in his 1st year competing. 2 of these 3 are primarily gravel based championships. He also won the Irish junior championship that year, a series contested solely on gravel rendering your point well, pointless.
3. Breen has already completed 1,000s of kms in the 207, not to mention the 1,000's of kms testing the new 208 on gravel. It was his 1st time in Azores but then Meeke won it on his 1st visit
4. The 207 was updated last year and has was quick enough in the hands of Neuville (a tarmac driver) on gravel. Yes the DS3 is probably superior but it was being driven by a rallying novice with a total of no more than 500kms gravel experience in total
5. Its his first full season but he has done a few rounds before and is the current SWRC champion with 10's of thousands of kms experience in s2000 cars. To be taken seriously for a WRC works drive he really should be looking to win the championship this year - his only competition (for the overall title) are a driver not considered fast enough for a WRC drive and a novice
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28th April 2013, 21:22 #452
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Originally Posted by Kielder
That would be considered not helping.....
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28th April 2013, 21:37 #453
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For me, Breen did a good job to be best of the rest here.
Kopecky is obviously more at home on tarmac but when he is on the boil he can be pretty decent on gravel too (in the past here he was not far behind Hanninen and Mikelssen) From the footage we saw he was driving nicely.
At the moment I would say that Breen is more of a 'Wilks' than a 'Meeke'. Good but he needs a bit more...
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28th April 2013, 21:46 #454
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Originally Posted by RS
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28th April 2013, 21:49 #455
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28th April 2013, 21:50 #456
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Duplicate post.
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28th April 2013, 22:25 #457
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Yes, High Noon in Corsica, "Bryan Bouffier vs The Two Engined Team" soon in theaters near you
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28th April 2013, 22:47 #458
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Great Lavadinho's pics on Sousa's Facebook account:
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?s...2436621&type=3
I found this one there too. A bit artificial, but the car looks powerful:
S-DV 9032; TO V33681; VLE 756X; IN-NL 67; IN-NZ 9; 704 EXC 75; 294 FPF 75; TO-89095-H; K-AM 5803; K-AM 6983; L 555 BAT; N6 MRE; 206 NDP 75; X20 SRT; S600 WRT; 23 DDM 92; WOB VW 369; SP 1013...
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28th April 2013, 22:52 #459
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Wallenwein's roll was, luckily, soft so to speak:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?featur...v=mEeE6Mk8biY#!
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29th April 2013, 09:00 #460
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IMO Breen is already familiar with the 207 and at least as fast as Kopecky on gravel. Do not forget in the case of Acores there was crazy weather during the recce too - not only during the rally itself - it was incredible hard to make correct pacenotes for a 1sttimer like Breen. Kopecky did this rally four times in the IRC years and that's one of the reasons why he won it know. No offence to Kopko though, he and Pavel did an awesome job not only on this rally but also in this season. The wisest decision for them is to compete on Corsica and achive a podium finish and then they can comfortable sit back and choose the rallys for the second half of the season where they will compete.
Nice interview with Loubet ...
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