Vodafone Rally de Portugal 2017 [May 18-21]

[mknight]

Of course not. Last year there were huge gaps in WRC2 before the stage and most likely everybody was only cruising. Now we have a) Mikkelsen and b) fight between Tidemand (last year's winner) and Suninen.

You know you can turn this around.

Last year in Polo WRC Mikkelsen was pushing hard to keep Ogier behind him. This year same driver is "cruising" cause he has 3 mins lead and is only 0.5s/km slower in an R5 car. So this years R5 is about as fast as last years fastest WRC? Really.

TLDR, too short stage and too many variables for any conclusions

[KKS]

And Paddon will win PS? 2nd Tanak and 3rd Neuville?

[dimviii]

Sun 10:39 - Delay update
Gorban's new start time: 1055hrs

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Gilbert jump crash

https://twitter.com/RallyingUK/statu...26984988356608

[dimviii]

[Fast Eddie WRC]

[Lundefaret]

Very nice time by Tidemand on SS17. I rather thought he and Mikelssen have set some pretty good times with their R5 cars vs. the new WRC17 cars.

As I am sure you know, disadvantage in sec pr km (R5/WRC17) changes with stage character.
Good thing with Andreas in R5 is that you get a real indication (top driver in R5 vs top driver in WRC17).To be very general, R5 is fast where you dont need a lot of acceleration.
This can be on a very fast stage, or a technical stage which goes from corner-to-corner. But as soon as acceleration becomes an issue, (distance between corners) they will loose more.
So worst stage for R5 would be with 90 degree junctions followed by long (100 meters+), in combination with long fast corners (lack of downforce).

On Andreas: If he was in Citroën, all makes would fight for wins on every rally.

[BigWorm]

And Paddon will win PS? 2nd Tanak and 3rd Neuville?

Paddon will be earlier on the road on the PS than on the first run of Fafe, so maybe but not as given.

[[RMC]Pip]

On Andreas: If he was in Citroën, all makes would fight for wins on every rally.

I simply can't understand why Citroen doesn't recruit him. The competition will only get fiercer next year, Citroen needs him to have any chance against other makes.

[EstWRC]

Paddon ss17 https://twitter.com/Vity_Arias/statu...35757215846401