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Thread: Rally Italia Sardinia 2017
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10th June 2017, 12:05 #811
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First it's Mikkelsen not Mikkelson.
Meeke is pushing harder than the car can go because he has such nature. I don't blame him for trying to fight. He has always been like that. The point that he doesn't help his team in solving the issue stays though.
Look at Ogier. Is he happy with the Fiesta every time? I dare to say no. But he is able to bring it home everytime and make it better step by step. He knows well that rolling the car in the middle of first day would hardly help him getting better one next time.
On the other hand Citroën has in the team three drivers who are all well known for their flamboyant driving. That is in my eyes a sort of management failure because they need somebody like Sordo who is able to get the car to the finish no matter what. In the past Citroën cars were developed with drivers like Bugalski, Loeb or Bouffier who are of different kind than Meeke or Breen.Stupid is as stupid does. Forrest Gump
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10th June 2017, 12:11 #812
This sounds really cynical in hindsight. Shame on me for chuckling quite a while on it.
It seems the stars aligned for the C3 in Mexico. Whatever the problem is with that car they were able to temporarily get rid of it there, maybe by accident and now they can't reproduce it or it simply hasn't worked on the other rallies.
It's weird how Breen kept praising the car in Portugal and now it's all down the drain again. Really, really weird.Last edited by Watson; 10th June 2017 at 12:15.
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10th June 2017, 12:26 #813
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10th June 2017, 12:36 #814
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10th June 2017, 12:41 #815
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I have to say I have also watched the onboard, and I don't think Meeke did much wrong. From the very start of the stage the car looks like its trying to get away from him from the rear. In fact it has looked like that pretty much all season, except Corsica. If you watch he is always trying to open the steering angle to stop it getting away from him. His Monte crash in my opinion was because he carried a bit too much speed and just couldn't trust the car to throw some lock in to try and save it, and ran out of road on the outside.
I also don't agree that just driving round slow is telling his engineers anything at all, just a waste of money. Better to go the speed you need to and work out whats wrong.
Incidentally watching Lappi, Ostberg and Paddon (the three fastest) through the same stage, all of those cars look way more stable than the Citroen, especially the Ford and Toyota. All 4 drivers make a small lift in the same place, and the Citroen pitches Meeke in bank.
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10th June 2017, 12:43 #816
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10th June 2017, 13:01 #817
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#Tyre info - Day 2 afternoon
Mikkelsen/Neuville/Paddon/Ogier: 6 Michelin LTX Force H4
Breen/Tanaak/Sordo/Toyota: 5H
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10th June 2017, 13:25 #820
Sordo https://youtu.be/NKqJQLKlqDA?si=199ai_aOf2Qs8qJ7 Munster https://youtu.be/c_7JuAJ1W18?si=_GaShLZCbhDzO1Y3 Neuville https://youtu.be/squR_MO6I6c?si=rJEuQEKWMo-qghX5
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