another crazy day tommorow... the ford team could easily climb a lot of places and be on top 6 by the end of the rally.
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another crazy day tommorow... the ford team could easily climb a lot of places and be on top 6 by the end of the rally.
If Petter has no more issues or idiotic mistakes then he'll finish 4th at worst. he's only 4:30 behind Sandell and I'd expect him to make that up easily, especially with his road position. And I would be very surprised if both Mads and Evgeny get to the end of the rally without a problem! A podium is still very possible.Quote:
Originally Posted by N.O.T
the thing is that conditions are the same for everyone so i see no reason why Latvala or solberg will not be caught again.... we will see...overall the rally is interesting but for the wrong reasons...
Currently many rainclouds are queueing up to go to the stages, so, the night might be very wet againQuote:
Originally Posted by N.O.T
Tomorrow is a tricky thing. Maps are a bit biased here. One one hand it looks like tomorrow will be much better weather. Somehow I think it is not fully correct. I expect first stage to be better, second stage little bit more rain and third the worst.
Afternoon might be better weather, only the third stage looks bit worse again. So, I expect drivers to use their softs for morning loop and maybe hards for afternoon. (because of the rain overnight).
Sunday morning looks dry, but afternoon looks like today. So, I expect the last soft tires to be used there. But the weather changes his mind like a lady, so this (Sunday) is not very reliable yet.
I had two differing opinions after reading this:Quote:
Originally Posted by dimviii
1) Good on him for wanting to challenge himself even though he's now got the most to lose. If I was in his boots I'd be delighted they were cancelled and my lead still safely intact!
2) Complete ignorance and naivety towards the other cars - yes he could probably cope in these conditions, but the R2s and locals etc were massively struggling and going as far as getting stuck in water crossings. For these guys the stages just had to be cancelled in my opinion.
they did not cancel them for the crews they cancelled them because if something happened the emergency vehicles would no reach the area in appropriate time...
was a perfect decision... this was not rallying this was stupidity and tomorrow it will be the same.
I know that was the reason for the cancellation, but even without that reason, the stages were becoming literally impassable for some of the lower cars. In my view, and I may be alone here, for some cars to literally be unable to complete a stage due to high water crossings etc is absurd and the stage shouldn't count for that class. Obviously the struggles for the emergency crews mean there is an easy reason to cancel stages.Quote:
Originally Posted by N.O.T
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