26th Kennards Hire Rally Australia (16-19.11.17)

[Mrpengski]

Does Paddon's car have exactly the same parts as Neuville's and Mikkelsen's? (or was there only enough new parts for Neuville and Mikkelsen to use and spares at the service are?

What is Paddon's car weigh with crew compared to his team mates. I would suspect the jumbo co-driver gives a slight power to weight ratio disadvantage in some conditions. (How much does Marshall weigh compared Kennard?) Are there any little persom brit co-drivers available for a try out?

All the cars have the same spec, apart from the new rear bumper/fender which has been on Neuville's car only since Wales.

Keep in mind these cars carry ballast to be brought up to the minimum weight anyway, and the occupants weights are rather central which is not too bad. The difference in weight among all the crews (driver+codriver) is much less than you might expect.

[mknight]

Not that surprised at the overall results so far.

Mikkelsen and Meeke had road position advantage and no big issues while all others had either one or both of them. Seemingly C3 works on dry gravel now, good.

Points:

- Lefevbre under real pressure now with Meeke doing good and Breen also very good considering he never drove here before

- Paddon relative to Mikkelsen/Neuville quite bad

- Ford, what a difference from "win all" in Wales

- Toyota still has issues with both speed and reliability

[AnttiL]

Lefebvre's doing pretty well, without the two punctures he'd be up there with Ogier and Paddon

[dimviii]

Michelin video Leg 1
https://youtu.be/UMvjdQncGso

Meeke was lucky at his off
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC_EG8a35F0

[dimviii]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9G2i2vRxas

https://youtu.be/G8mVT87tMUg

[Rallyper]

The Fiesta problems in Australia are aero and tyre as far as I can see. Just because they are 40 seconds adrift here (only 40, NOT 2 mins) does not mean that Ostberg's issues were anything other than poor preparation and loss of mojo.

However he had plenty of technical issues.

[dimviii]

[Mintexmemory]

During 2016 Meeke and Citroen were pretty happy with the C3 development

Prior to ’16 WRGB, Meeke even said he was living a dream: “A year like this is what I’ve always wanted. It’s been the chance to develop a car with a world-beating manufacturer like Citroën from scratch

In December, at the C3 presentation, Matton hugely praised Meeke’s work in the car development and the Brit was confident about the car

Well did you expect them to say ' the car is crap and it looks like we're going round in circles. PR is often divorced from reality!

[er88]

Well did you expect them to say ' the car is crap and it looks like we're going round in circles. PR is often divorced from reality!

Well to back you up, Meeke was pushing for changes to the car for months (even before the season started), but Matton only finally listened after Andreas' feedback and trouble in the car too. Every driver has said the same things anyway. Good to see it's finally improved at the back end of the season

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[wrc2017]

Breen doing well, but also remember Citroen/Meeke did not do Rally Australia last year, and alot of the stage are different, so first time doing these stages for Meeke also.