[WRC] Vodafone Rally de Portugal 2018 (18/21-May)

[KKS]

Uh... Latvala's hard didn't work on dry stage and he lost 10sec, and on a next damp stage with same hard's - win stage!
I don't understand anything around this tyres compounds .... oh

[KKS]

he is not pushing the guys behind are nothing

even worse than sick dogs?

[stefanvv]

Uh... Latvala's hard didn't work on dry stage and he lost 10sec, and on a next damp stage with same hard's - win stage!
I don't understand anything around this tyres compounds .... oh

Looks like the stage was drying quickly. On the previous he might be caught by the surprise it rained, for others not.

[dimviii]

Lefebvre lost to Tidemand 22 sec.Gap now to 21,7 sec.

[steve.mandzij]

Well he is out of the title race, what difference would make?

Runner up is always open, plus good for manus and his own confidence.

[AnttiL]

Quite many offs were his own fault, specially on the rallies where he should have scored (Germany, partly Spain) but also some of the gravel ones. Then there were the rallies where he has never been fast (Finland, GB).

Can you point a gravel rally in 2017 where he had an off?

[mknight]

Can you point a gravel rally in 2017 where he had an off?

I thought about Argentina and Sardinia.

But in Argentina they never really showed the rock just how he went into the side after that (kinda like Ogier here).
In Sardinia it was about the puncture he did on live SS with helicopter watching and then saying in end-stage interview how he had no idea where it came from (even the commentators were having a good laugh at that). But turns out this was after his earlier engine issues.

So you'r right that driver-wise he was stable on gravel last year. Just the offs on tarmac.

[stefanvv]

his own confidence.

I'm a bit afraid of confidence.

[Mintexmemory]

I think it's his best season since 2009....ok 2011 wasn't to bad in the MINI but 2009 was pretty good for the then young spaniard.

He would have had a different career had he not had to be second in Catalunya that year (2009).

[Eli]

He would have had a different career had he not had to be second in Catalunya that year (2009).

Yes I Agree, could have looked a lot different.