Rallye Deutschland 2014

[Lundefaret]

a) Loeb was so good he was rarely under pressure
b) He was able to avoid pressure from able team mates when it suited by team orders (Sordo) or derating an engine (Ogier)
c) He wasn't immune though as the last ever rally showed - It was just very rare.

A big part of Loebs success was that he was able to be contempt with good point scoring positions to save the championship. That way it was difficult to put pressure on Loeb, because You needed to put pressure regarding the championship, not only one rally. But shore, he had some cracks in his armour, tough very small and far between

Ogier is of a different type of psychology, much more like Walter Röhrl. Its not only about winning, its about humiliating Your opponents, and trying to beat them with minutes. This I really like, because it paints the profile of a very colorfull personality, but it will off course in some sircumstances be a weakness.

But the fact that Latvala is pressuring Ogier will get spiral starting. The reaction from Ogier is over driving a bit, wich loses him a bit of time, wich then can lead him to over drive a bit more etc. We are off cource talking about minute details here, and that is also why it is difficult for Ogier to be concious of it.

Lets hope this Latvala vs Ogier duell goes on for not only this rally, but a lot longer, and lets hope that some of the other guys reaches their level in a consistent manner. The cars are so similar now that it is possible to win in all of them, so everything is in place to create an exiting championship

[Salist]

Neuville shakedown crash video:
http://youtu.be/jgL3wgVrcAo

[MikeD]

A big part of Loebs success was that he was able to be contempt with good point scoring positions to save the championship.

Pfff,

Loeb won 78 of the 156 WRC rallies he enteres. That's 50,0%. That's not really being "contempt" with good point scoring.

To compare the Valentino Rossi has a winning-% of 33,9% - Michael Schumacher has a winning-% of 29,5% and none of them has ever been accused of being "contempt".

PS: And stop talking down to people as if you know more about rally than people in here.

[GallardoGT]

Kubica just a disappointment once more... nothing for him to show apart from slow speed and crashes. I was expecting him to be much faster here.

He just does not have the ability to do anything taken seriously at the top of the sport. He is a far better addition than those useless nobodies with sunglasses but that is that and nothing more unfortunately.

Rally is all about multitasking with the pacenotes and it seems Kubica still can't deal with it. My advice for him is to practice pacenotes in Richard Burns Rally over and over again.

[kirungi okwogera]

Rally is all about multitasking with the pacenotes and it seems Kubica still can't deal with it. My advice for him is to practice pacenotes in Richard Burns Rally over and over again.

Wasn't he one of the top Polish RBR players?

[GallardoGT]

Yes now you say so. Maybe he knew those stages.

[Tom206wrc]

Eric Camilli

[jonkka]

Not in tarmac rallies

Has that changed? I can't find anything on rules (though my copy is from December, not the latest)?

45.3 START ORDER FOR SUBSEQUENT DAYS
45.3.1 The start order for the first section on subsequent second days shall be based on the classification at the finish of the final special stage of the previous day excluding super special stages if run at the end of the day.
45.3.2 P1 and P2 drivers
P1 and P2 drivers shall normally re-start as a merged group in reverse order according to their overall classification.

[jonkka]

The cars are so similar now that it is possible to win in all of them

If that is so, why VW has uninterrupted streak of 12 consecutive wins whereas the next best record is just 8 consecutive for Citroen in 2011? And already this year they have five 1-2 wins... No, cars aren't quite so similar in performance.

[Ucci]

If that is so, why VW has uninterrupted streak of 12 consecutive wins whereas the next best record is just 8 consecutive for Citroen in 2011? And already this year they have five 1-2 wins... No, cars aren't quite so similar in performance.

Lucky you...it seems you have tested DS3, Polo, Fiesta.....share some images, please....