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Thread: Wrc Rally Argentina 2017
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2nd May 2017, 18:57 #1111
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Tbf he'd have had two wins in a row this season if it wasn't for the engine blowing up in Corsica, and I'm pretty sure he will win at least one of the next two or three rallies as well. The reality is that Citroen have no championship ambitions this season, they said before the year started that they wanted to win some rallies and prepare for a full on championship assault in 2018. The biggest problem people have had is having too high expectations for Meeke at the start of the year. He'll be really quick, he'll probably be in the top two or three drivers at the end of the year in terms of total wins, and he'll also crash and retire a lot. It's hardly unexpected.
Citroën's plan sadly didn't alter even with VW withdrawing, but Lefebvre won't be there next year so you'll see one of Andreas or Ogier in that team alongside Meeke and Breen imo. And hopefully next year after collecting all the data from this year's rallies and learning from their mistakes, Citroen will solve the set up issues that hampered them in Monte and Sweden, fix the few small reliability issues they've had and be able to maximise the potential of the car they've built. I still think that the C3 has the highest ceiling out of all the cars, and when the set up is right it's the quickest. In basically every test video we see the car looks rapid and the most impressive but they can't seem to translate that speed in testing to actual rally conditions.
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2nd May 2017, 19:31 #1112
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Videos don`t tell us anything about the performance. You can`t measure 0,... s/km losses etc from a video, that is probably made from many different clips and on a short road that they drive for the whole day. And also there`s the truth that what is spectacular to watch and seems quick, isn`t normally the fastest way. I don`t say they have a bad car, but also nothing to brag with. They took a whole year to build and test that car and apart from Meeke`s crazy driving (which on a good day has brought him victories but sadly too oftenly ended with tears) they are still last. We also don`t know what would have happened in Corsica if the engine hadn`t failed.
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2nd May 2017, 19:40 #1113
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well...i followed argentina closely and like many have said before, i really enjoyed the battle between Evans and Neuville. In all honesty i wanted each to win for different reasons; Evan's first victory, Neuville's championship chase. Special mention goes to Latvala, Tanak, Ogier and Breen, they all had problems but tried their best to manage them. It looks like Latvala, Tanak and Neuville are maturing and understanding that if things are not going according to plan that its still important to gather points for both the driver's and manufacturer's championships...hopefully by mentioning that i did not jinx them lol.
with regards to Meeke, i hold my thoughts for now until things settle, what i will say is that i'm glad both him and Paul were not hurt as that's most important.
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2nd May 2017, 20:28 #1114
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2nd May 2017, 21:45 #1118
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Can you be a big more constructive, instead of harping on like a tabloid newspaper?
Monte - Car setup to low
Sweden - Diff Issue
Mexico - Win
Corsica - Leading, engine
Argentina - 2nd till going off, suspected damper issue, own accident etc etc etc.
I'd rather have his record that some others.
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2nd May 2017, 21:54 #1119
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2nd May 2017, 21:54 #1120
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Almost all champions have had at least 1 retirement during thein championship winning year. Therefore statistics are against Neuville, but if he can keep it clean at least 6 future events, then it...
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