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Thread: Petter Solberg WRT
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11th May 2010, 11:30 #1381
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All 'ifs' and 'buts' - if my Auntie had balls, she'd be my uncle......
Is there a better sound than that of Porsche engined Flat-6 ???
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11th May 2010, 12:03 #1382
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Originally Posted by N.O.T
You are also wrong when you say that Petter's fast stages happened only when other Citroens were not pushing. You can check for instance afternoon run from friday, covering more than 60 kilometres when Petter was seven seconds (or something like this) off from Seb who was storming after his mistake. Loeb was the fastest Citroen overally. But in my view Petter was very near to Ogier in terms of absolute pace and clearly faster than Sordo.
By the way, it's unfortunate that we have to even discuss about who was genuinely fast because with old road-position system everyone could see the real pace differences for the whole rally.
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11th May 2010, 12:08 #1383
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Ogier is really refreshing case in rallying. He will be the one who pushes Loeb away from his place. I appriacate the way how Ogier started to fight when he had a chance for the win. In the last stage he started to loose ground but toward the end he pushed like crazy and was near to succeed in it. In the first ss of sunday he was also pushing like craze before his mistakes. If watch his in-car the cuts were amazing before he lost it (at that point he was ahead of Loeb in splits).
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11th May 2010, 12:12 #1384
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He is quoted in the Norwegian newspapers being 5.5 and 4 sec up on Ogier/Latvala, at 5.5km when he crashed. Well... Of course in some way that's impressive, but more I think it just shows that he was on an all-or-nothing mission. And personally I think that speed was borderline to "stupid". It would likely never last for 30 km. I fail to see how this is good risk management, to take such approach when the 2nd position in the championship was so tight on points. But however insane it sounds, the way I understand Petter's mind, I actually believe he saw a possibility of closing in on Loeb in the chamionship points. Of course, that's a completely unrealistic hope for any sane person. But I think for Petter it's actually not.. If he sees even a slight possibility for that he will give it all, pluss a little more. So NOW I guess he will lower his aim for the runner-up spot.
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11th May 2010, 13:12 #1385
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Originally Posted by Finni2
The teams get a graphline that shows how each of the cars (including competitors) in the stage are performing.
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11th May 2010, 13:41 #1386
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Originally Posted by DonJippo:cool: You Can´t Loose What Your Never Had.
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11th May 2010, 15:29 #1387
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Originally Posted by bretddog
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11th May 2010, 22:04 #1388
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Anyone who has competed knows that at times taking a chance is required to be fast at this level. I believe the factory drivers will always take more risks as they dont have to deal with the consequences in the same fashion. Im sure many have seen the incar video on youtube with Colin in Rally GB 2001 where he takes cuts of maybe one to two feet on nearly every single corner, the stage times were unbelievable but the end result we also know. Atkinson once said in an interview I recall that because he hadnt the same experience when he started in the WRC he had to push harder and take more chances to be the same speed then some one who grew up driving in WRC since say 17 or 18.
When you foot the bill yourself after an off its a different kettle of fish. I think it will be unbelievable is Petter is prepared to take the risk to try win another rally. Some one like Matthew Wilson takes much less risks and hence finishes lots of rallys which is good for him if thats what he wants to do but the results dont come.
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11th May 2010, 22:06 #1389
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Originally Posted by N.O.T
... oh wait he lost 30 seconds on the stage right after...
so much for the stupidity of comparing speed by single stage.
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11th May 2010, 22:09 #1390
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Petter's son is now ready .. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYw6iEeBOVs
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