Rally of Spain-Catalunya 2009- Oficial Thread

[harriswrc]

Ah, okay. I know about SupeRally from the WRC TV coverage, but they don't really explain the details. Do you know why Khalid was given a time 5 minutes behind Petter, instead of 5 minutes behind the stage winner?

For all crews which restart a time penalty will be applied.
This time penalty will be as follows:
For every stage or super special stage missed: 5 minutes.
This time penalty will be added to the fastest time of the drivers’ priority group (P1, P2, P3) for each
missed stage, which shall include the special stage or super special stage on which the crew has retired.

[Psycho!]

I don't think Mikko thinks Sordo as a threat. As for Petter, I don't know. I think Petter would have needed a couple more rallies with C4 until he'll reach Sebastien's and Mikko's pace.

In Australia Sordo lost to Mikko in the final day and by a small margin and he will be driving on the limit,taking risks without the fear of Manu Championship.Concerning Petter,he will have his second test on gravel with the C4,he knows the rally and his is a great gravel/mud driver,plus he really wants to prove to himself and to everybody that he still has the pace in a proper car to win rallies.Don't forget also that a possible win in GB will boost his plans for 2010.Apart from that I think that he told in an interview that he found his groove quite quickly in the gravel C4...

[playmo]

Number of people in here hope the best for GB, but we're in the middle of a totally different (and to my view, useless) event! let's focus on this drive-thru event instead, please, or at least lets wait until sunday afternoon...
I'm interested on this event, but just a little, i hope that mikko is playing it safe for 3rd, his approach is to wait for petter to crash (witch i think WILL happen).
I thought that Ogier was a tarmac specialist, or at least he was "raised" in tarmac, witch would make him specialist, no matter how much talent he's got on the loose.
Loeb is to show his true pace yet, i think.

[Juha_Koo]

Novikov trying hard, two moments on day one.

Who is this "Asi"? Leading the N4 after day one...

[noel157]

Novikov trying hard, two moments on day one.

Who is this "Asi"? Leading the N4 after day one...

Check out Post #59 etc. György Aschenbrenner and one beautiful co-driver. (thanks to Wim).

[Wim_Impreza]

Novikov trying hard, two moments on day one.

Who is this "Asi"? Leading the N4 after day one...

"Asi" is a fast driver from Hungary. His real name is György Aschenbrenner. He is driving for years in a Mitsubishi Group N and sometimes he can even beat WRC cars in his home country. His reputation is not very high, because each year he has minimum one disqualifaction and some of his opponents thinks that he has an illegal car.

Psycho: you are dreaming. P. Solberg winning? That is forever done.

[Tomi]

Apart from that I think that he told in an interview that he found his groove quite quickly in the gravel C4...

He told he wont have a haircut until he win a rally too, a few years ago

[bluuford]

Loeb has more wins,so he will be first on the leaderboard...

Nice to see new forumers in rallyforum :-) I am in the middle of the forest with the slowest possible internet connection and seems that our forum is the best option to keep myself updated :-)

About the tactics.. I even dont consider it as a possibility for tactics to lose a few points in Spain to be second on the road in GB. On that time of a year there wont be any dry roads and being first on the road is big advantage in that case. And there is always possibility that they retire both in GB then the winner is the one who had one point more before GB :-) So, loosing points in Spain is not wise move in my view.

[Helstar]

Totally agree with bluuford...

When does today first SS start ?

[Helstar]

Right now ! Am I alone ^^ ?