53º Rally RACC Catalunya – Costa Daurada 2017

[dimviii]

another photo of the point

[Rally Power]

No idea if someone has mentioned before: Wilson actually asked Tanak to ease up, after Sunday’s first loop.

Q:
How hard were you pushing on the final day?
OT:
For sure I was doing my best. I couldn’t make any mistakes because of the points – I was close to the limit. In the morning, we never had the gap more than one second [between Ogier and Tanak], it was close. After the break I had a phone call from Malcolm [Wilson, team principal]. He was laughing for about 10 seconds, but then he said: “That’s enough now.” Then we have really good points. I knew Seb is kind of controlling this thing and I didn’t have any tools to beat him today. This is how it had to end.

Full post event conference https://www.fia.com/news/wrc-kmeeke-...-special-drive

[EstWRC]

Yes, this was written already on sunday in estonian media that Wilson used teamorders.

[racerx1979]

Well there we go. It was going to happen sooner or later for Ott since he is now battling at the top.

[mknight]

another photo of the point

Yeah and this is how Tanak's wheel looked like from that...

but still it was on the car.. not trailing on the side like Hyundais, sure they could have been a few cms more to the side, or (more likely in view) their wheels were turned more out.

Anyway quite lucky he got no loss of air from that. Also remember one of his rims looked about the same after PowerStage in germany.

[Ucci]

Yes, this was written already on sunday in estonian media that Wilson used teamorders.

Thank god that Malcom used teamorders. This may be also the reason that M-Sport had two drivers on the podium...and not in the ditch or with provoked technical troubles due to driving over the limit....

[N.O.T]

Back home after a great rally. Really nice event in a great social setting. Couple that with the gravel and tarmac you really do have the best of both worlds. Made up for Meeke. He crashed right in front of me in Germany on the SSS and honestly I didn't know how he was going to come back from that. As soon as it hit tarmac that C3 was absolutely on rails.

Big storylines, action and unpredictability in every event. The WRC really is in a great place right now.

I got my photos uploaded if anyone fancies a look

nice pictures kid... but you are not a pro... too little photoshop/filter crap and no lakes or flowers and too much focus on the cars...

i am dissapointed...

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Thank god that Malcom used teamorders. This may be also the reason that M-Sport had two drivers on the podium...and not in the ditch or with provoked technical troubles due to driving over the limit....

Exactly.


And 'team-orders' is a bit of an exaggeration. Telling your second driver to hold position when he is already behind your leader and has an inferior car (gravel gearbox) is just common sense.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

[tommeke_B]

https://www.facebook.com/fzrvideo/vi...2050667808713/ Stunning to see such a situation being taken flat out.