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Today, 10:22

mknight replied to a thread Rally Sweden 14-17 FEB 2019 in WRC World Rally Championship

Talking about R5s I am quite impressed by Veiby. Never really believed he is fast enough and didn't impress in Fabia either. But here he was very...

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Today, 09:54

mknight replied to a thread Rally Sweden 14-17 FEB 2019 in WRC World Rally Championship

On the michelin site they are as fast as on wrc+ maps and crash less often: https://michelinmotorsport.com/Evenement/2019-WRC-Rally-Sweden

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Today, 07:28

mknight replied to a thread Rally Sweden 14-17 FEB 2019 in WRC World Rally Championship

Ogier had a moment after like 1 min in. Let's see if he ripped of some aero.

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Yesterday, 17:17

mknight replied to a thread Rally Sweden 14-17 FEB 2019 in WRC World Rally Championship

Swimming competition

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Yesterday, 16:23

mknight replied to a thread Rally Sweden 14-17 FEB 2019 in WRC World Rally Championship

Thing is he was locked-up under breaking and going sideways into that three right before and corrected it at last moment.

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Yesterday, 15:28

mknight replied to a thread Rally Sweden 14-17 FEB 2019 in WRC World Rally Championship

So: - Gronholm lost brakes - Latvala in ditch - Neuville massive spin - Ogier big moment scratching a tree ("It wasn't so close", year right..)...

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Yesterday, 13:09

mknight replied to a thread Rally Sweden 14-17 FEB 2019 in WRC World Rally Championship

Big differences on last split between multiple drivers. Meeke and Lappi gaining a lot.

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Yesterday, 12:50

mknight replied to a thread Rally Sweden 14-17 FEB 2019 in WRC World Rally Championship

I can already see FIA wondering how to prohibit this with rule change ;)

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Yesterday, 12:39

mknight replied to a thread Rally Sweden 14-17 FEB 2019 in WRC World Rally Championship

A bit strange to drive from service all the way to the start of the stage then tbh. Could also have used it for testing, but arguably studded...

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Yesterday, 09:43

mknight replied to a thread Rally Sweden 14-17 FEB 2019 in WRC World Rally Championship

Doesn't look like road position matters much this morning, certainly not within top 10. That might change drastically in the afternoon.

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Yesterday, 07:15

mknight replied to a thread Rally Sweden 14-17 FEB 2019 in WRC World Rally Championship

Without snowbanks it's game over if someone does a mistake. Unlike yesterday.

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15th February 2019, 22:24

mknight replied to a thread Rally Sweden 14-17 FEB 2019 in WRC World Rally Championship

With so many cars in front it might even be an advantage to be where Meeke/Neuville are rather than further down.

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15th February 2019, 21:26

mknight replied to a thread Rally Sweden 14-17 FEB 2019 in WRC World Rally Championship

It's not premature to say they are prbly the biggest surprise of the rally. Not meaning to take something off Suninen or Evans but both and sometimes...

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15th February 2019, 17:40

mknight replied to a thread Rally Sweden 14-17 FEB 2019 in WRC World Rally Championship

Tarmac SSS quite often. Kopecky in Germany for example.

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15th February 2019, 17:32

mknight replied to a thread Rally Sweden 14-17 FEB 2019 in WRC World Rally Championship

Imo it's the tires +tirewear. R5 have new tires with longer studs and are less likely to loose them due to less power and speed in corners. All...

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15th February 2019, 17:31

mknight replied to a thread Rally Sweden 14-17 FEB 2019 in WRC World Rally Championship

Well Msport would have dropped Loeb behind Neuville for 1 car better road position at this point ;) In any case Neuville was very vocal about...

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15th February 2019, 17:19

mknight replied to a thread Rally Sweden 14-17 FEB 2019 in WRC World Rally Championship

Some really important position changes in this stage with regards to starting position tomorrow. Lappi going up 4 places and Neuville getting...

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14th February 2019, 20:25

mknight replied to a thread Rally Sweden 14-17 FEB 2019 in WRC World Rally Championship

Didn't expect that, though Loeb seemed to be driving carefully.

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14th February 2019, 20:22

mknight replied to a thread Rally Sweden 14-17 FEB 2019 in WRC World Rally Championship

Neuville did look much better than anyone else trough there.

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14th February 2019, 19:30

mknight replied to a thread Rally Sweden 14-17 FEB 2019 in WRC World Rally Championship

Weird, he comes in view with things hanging a little bit off the left rear corner. Does a touch on that corner again when we see him and then goes...

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14th February 2019, 19:25

mknight replied to a thread [WRC] News & Rumours 2019 in WRC World Rally Championship

Not sure how good idea that is, the experience from there and with that car is not directly related to driving R5 or WRC on other rounds. On the...

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14th February 2019, 13:50

mknight replied to a thread Rally Sweden 14-17 FEB 2019 in WRC World Rally Championship

With the road order making so big differences on SD it's also likely to make big differences tomorrow.

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14th February 2019, 10:58

mknight replied to a thread Rally Sweden 14-17 FEB 2019 in WRC World Rally Championship

Yes but it's strange that Neuville improves more from 2nd to 3rd pass than from 1st to 2nd.

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14th February 2019, 10:51

mknight replied to a thread Rally Sweden 14-17 FEB 2019 in WRC World Rally Championship

Times looks strange half way through 3rd passes. Haven't been following car by car, but it seems strange that everyone in the top is within 1-2 secs...

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10th February 2019, 19:21

mknight replied to a thread Rally Sweden 14-17 FEB 2019 in WRC World Rally Championship

Funny looking at 2003+ Focus. When introduced it had so massive aero relative to the cars of the era. Now after watching the 2017 WRC for two...

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1st February 2019, 16:57

mknight replied to a thread WRC Testing in WRC World Rally Championship

I see it only takes 1,5 month to forget. Feel free to look back a few pages here to confirm, but reality was: 1. Crash picture was posted 2....

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30th January 2019, 20:38

mknight replied to a thread [WRC] News & Rumours 2019 in WRC World Rally Championship

VW also complained about the rules (VW, not P. Solbergs team). Anyway that's sematics. Point is that with the current normal engine rules the...

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30th January 2019, 20:00

mknight replied to a thread [WRC] News & Rumours 2019 in WRC World Rally Championship

With current rules all teams left this year....officially teams left WRX because electric car rules were postponed by FIA. You can wonder if the...

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30th January 2019, 19:36

mknight replied to a thread [WRC] News & Rumours 2019 in WRC World Rally Championship

In 2017 and most of 2018 everything was positive. But to be real now you basically have only 2 manu teams fully taking part with 3rd running only 2...

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