Rally Sweden 2017

[bluuford]

Some notes from this rally:

Hyundai: Seems that they are affected by prvevious Fiesta R5 disease - powersteering problems. Powersteering broke in Monte for Sordo and here for Paddon. Bearing in mind the fact that 3rd car nearly didnt drive in Monte, then having two failiures in 5 cars is not a good sign.

Neuville: Concrete boy I remember, when he was still in Ford, I think it was in Portugal, he had very similar retirement, cut too much, inside wheel was exposed to tree ..and bang!

Jari and Ott fight: Seems that Jari likes sliding a lot while Ott has learned to be more precise during DMack year. If you look more closely, largest timelosses for Jari came when they were at the end of loop and he complained about loss of grip/studs. As Likenäs stage was on full ice, no problem with sliding with studs.

As for Ott, his voice sounded a bit rough today, I am not sure, but seems that he has got some cold, that might affect your concentration and speed a little.

Podium, It was nice to hear Estonian national anthem (it is basically the same as Finnish.

Ford electronics: it seems that these problems must be related to their high tempo on producing new cars. They were the first to bring 4 cars to Sweden!

Car development: I was just wondering that how much advantage can Ford get for having 4 cars at the start of the rally. That means two times more information than Toyota or Citroen can get. How crucial it can be, when setting up car and adding new developments!?

[Revman]

I am a newbie, so ignore me instead of flaming me. What impressed the hell out of me was that Jari-Matti needed to manage the 3.8 second lead. He buried Ott after 16. Reminded him that he was done in 17. And put an exclamation mark on in it 18. Epic.

[SubaruNorway]

My video from an awesome Rally Sweden

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Onyg-rEWHI

[EstWRC]

Tänak saying in estonian media that he realized in the first few km's already that the car isnt working like he wants and accepted that he cant fight with Jari. He says Latvala was too fast anyway today.


Estonian broadcast commentator said that Latvala has said many times this weekend that the Yaris is even better than Polo on snow, weight distribution is very good...can anyone confirm this because i havent seen something said it about here?

[Arnold Triyudho Wardono]

Well done, Toyota & JML..

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[BigWorm]

I am a newbie, so ignore me instead of flaming me. What impressed the hell out of me was that Jari-Matti needed to manage the 3.8 second lead. He buried Ott after 16. Reminded him that he was done in 17. And put an exclamation mark on in it 18. Epic.

Hey, was only being ironic. I think we are all surprised of what Toyota has achieved. It's always fun when newcomers do well instead of rotting away like Suzuki.

[Revman]

This was as satisfying a motorsport result as I have ever known. What a fabulous sport!

[steve.mandzij]

What actually happened to Suzuki? Was the car the issue or was the lineup the issue?

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[Karukera]

Fantastic rally.
Hyvä Latvala and TGR !

[PLuto]

What actually happened to Suzuki? Was the car the issue or was the lineup the issue?

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It was "whole project issue". Japanese and brittish groups of the team were not cooperating perfectly during the development (and also later). This project was killed during development and was doing that one rally season only because they needed (as it was rule and there should be big penalty not doing it).