Vodafone Rally de Portugal 2017 [May 18-21]

[Watson]

What will be interesting to see is the comparison between Hanninen and Lappi. If Hanninen gets clearly beaten by a young kid on a consistant basis it does look dire for him. At the moment it could just be that the Yaris is actually not very competitive and Latvala is doing a hell of a job and is basically over achieving.

[RICARDO75]

Entry list

[[WRCRR]]

Very good entry, as expected. Quite many WRC2 crews have dropped out already though, looks like we have 20 crews max for the rest of the season.

[Simmi]

Yep very happy with that list. Even after the hype/let-down of the Mikkelsen situation it is still extremely strong.

I guess the big WRC2 guy missing is Kopecky. Was hoping to see Veiby too but nevermind. I can't wait to fly out there!

[Mirek]

I guess the big WRC2 guy missing is Kopecky.

It only confirms that Kopecký is not doing WRC2 (Portugal is mandatory). Third year in a row they send him only for three or four events per season which in my eyes is quite pathetic.

[liposh]

BTW. Am I blind or is Martin Koci really missing?

[Allez Andruet]

Tänak with Raigo Mölder?
Have I missed something?

[EstWRC]

They made copy/paste from last years list ...no Raigo for sure.

[Allez Andruet]

What will be interesting to see is the comparison between Hanninen and Lappi. If Hanninen gets clearly beaten by a young kid on a consistant basis it does look dire for him. At the moment it could just be that the Yaris is actually not very competitive and Latvala is doing a hell of a job and is basically over achieving.

Good point, will be really interesting to see. And let's just keep in mind that it's Lappi's first rally in a World Rally Car. The competition is so incredibly tight nowadays that's quite unrealistic to expect him to set top 3 or even top 5 times from the get-go (although I really hope he proves me wrong), but the comparison vs. Hänninen should be valid.

[Andre Oliveira]

Evans' codriver wrong too.