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15th June 2017, 22:35 #61
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He twists a lots of stuff to push his point. I might agree or disagree with this point, but either way I dislike how he tells half-truths or even wrong info to get it across.
Argentina second off is totally Meeke's fault.
Sardinia "unexplainable".... I guess it was aliens then.
Mikkelsen lost 2 mins due to puncture, and some 30-50s due to diff failure and rwd only so which is 30+% of the 8 mins. "Only minor issues". Yes he was very slow everyone agrees that so why the need to twist this.
Lappi... sure he has much less experience than Mikkelsen overall. But Mikkelsen had 1 day with 300 km on different gravel as car experience. Lappi 1 rally and prbly thousands of kms since he has been testing it for at least 6 months. He did extremely well yes, but car experience is incomparable in his favor.
Also this:
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15th June 2017, 22:44 #62
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"With that car, your brain can actually never keep up"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4IRMYuE1hI
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15th June 2017, 22:57 #63
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You look at meeke big high speed off on argentina.. the front to the car was floating left to right immediatly before accident at 200kph... my theory is the rear wing was refitted with wrong pitch after first accident, as the boot was totally missing.. so there was way to much down force on rear.. and light at the front.. it jist didnt turn in. Its not an unreasonable explaination. Just watch it again before making a judgement
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15th June 2017, 23:19 #64
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16th June 2017, 00:00 #65
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that doesn't matter. even if the car was on 3 wheels and burning, he shouldn't crash it.
otherwise, whats next? i crashed because my tyres where worn? i crashed because the engineers didn't mount a second spoiler?
you can only drive as fast as the cars allows it, going faster and crashing out is the drivers fault.
yes, there is a serious problem with the car that makes it do strange unpredictable things, but they know that so its actually not unpredictable.
if you know that you will likely lose control if you go flatout over a certain jump, than you can just choose to back off a little instead of trying it and crashing every second time.
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16th June 2017, 00:53 #66
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I think he meant loss of expected aero at high speed caused the off.
Think about it like Mercedes gt1 car at Le Mans in 1999, it can happen.
Whether or not it was in this case though is difficult to say, I thought it was driver error.
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16th June 2017, 00:53 #67
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Amazing how some keyboards warriors seem to have all the answers, but couldnt get within 10s per km of any of these top guys.. and have no appreciation what its like to drive a 30km stage to within tenths of a second of each other. On a 30 min stage... if you think you can throttle back 1 percent...is 18seconds..2 percent is 36s... thats how tight it is. Its a total sprint. Come off 1% or your not comfortable with your car.... your an also ran. these guys have bigger balls than you could ever dream off.
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16th June 2017, 08:30 #68
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The point is Clark is cherry picking facts in his analysis to support his point. The most blatant for me is forgetting Neuville got demoted and criticised then and even this year after his crashes. In the end Breen drove less rallies than Meeke and is ahead of him in the standings so one can argue something IS NOT working there. Also don't forget in Mexico, Meeke was lucky to escape from that car park. It could be much worse.
I think there is no single reason Citroen is in the state that it is, it's probably several causes:
- mismanagement of testing programme (relying on just Meeke)
- "smart" engineers who made a fast but undriveable car
- "bin it or win it" Meeke isn't as good as development as people say
- budget issues
- bad choices regarding drivers (not getting an ex VW driver, giving Lefebvre too much too fast)
- chaos within the team (contradictory statements and expectations)
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16th June 2017, 08:34 #69
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16th June 2017, 08:35 #70
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Mikkelsen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpe6ipk1NKU
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