Loeb will test Renault F1 car

[SubaruNorway]

Kovalainen driving the C4 http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/play...rc=ukeurosport

[Micke_VOC]

impressing driving of both drivers !!!!

[A.F.F.]

Kovalainen driving the C4 http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/play...rc=ukeurosport

Biggest difference? There's no grip and no power

[1LM1]

Yes, very impressed by both drivers
Amazing!

[1LM1]

http://www.eurosport.fr/rallye/saiso...vid58591.shtml

Interesting long interview with Loeb (but in French only) dated from yesterday evening after the F1 test.

He explains that the C4 was perfect all season long. He really enjoyed the battle with Marcus under these conditions. He says he was not confident before the season started because he had not entered a race for so long due to his accident and because the car was new. He reveals that a very different than usual set up which turned out not good played a part in the substandard performance in Finland.

Interesting. Maybe he can do better over there next year?

[Finni]

I think that Heikki wouldn't need many rallyes or many km's to beat Matt Wilson and likes.

[Finni]

http://www.eurosport.fr/rallye/saiso...vid58591.shtml
He reveals that a very different than usual set up which turned out not good played a part in the substandard performance in Finland.

This makes sense. I also wondered why Loeb was so slow (many stages as slow as Atkinson!) in Finland because one year back he gave good fight for Marcus. It was not all down to new Focus.

[Tomi]

sounds a little strange the setting thing, after all they have tested 2006 and 2007 in finland, and there is no rule that phrobid to change settings, but offcourse its possible.

[Isthmus]

Guy Frenquelin talked about that before NZ, that they used a wrong set-up in Finland , showed a few tests after and they would be a lot more competitive in NZ....and it was.