It's not the car its the drivers. Of course it looks slow in the shadow of whatever seb is driving. The Subaru held up fine and if seb was driving it, it would be the fastest car.
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It's not the car its the drivers. Of course it looks slow in the shadow of whatever seb is driving. The Subaru held up fine and if seb was driving it, it would be the fastest car.
What an idiotic comment. Petter has shown in the past that he can beat Loeb with decent equipment.
How the hell did you reach that conclusion? :angryfireQuote:
Originally Posted by Shrike
I'm guessing your knowledge of Petter's experience is as void as your head.
Obviously a cheese eating surrender monkey
None of the new shape group N Impreza made it to the end, not the Arai version, not the TMR version and not even to full supported 'N14' version ...Quote:
Originally Posted by Finni
After years of winning PWRC titles, this will be a Mitsu year, at least they are holding back the EvoX untill it really works
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Originally Posted by N.O.T
Again mr N.O.T you are certainly taking a lot from ONE rally (the roughest rally in years) which I think everyone agrees is not representative of the bulk of the championship and certainly not a rally where the true speed of any car can be shown.
Back to my original point; wait three or four rallies and then its time to START passing judgement.
Sure other teams will continue to evolve, but so will the impreza and it is right at the start of its life. The current impreza is the biggest departure from its previous model in years and, as the drivers admit, it has been rushed into use. How many years did Citroen develope its car before its first rally? and how long has the Focus been developed in a similar form? So if Subaru can be close to these guys, within the next few rallies, wouldn't you say that this could be a positive for them, couldn't there be much better to come? Let be positive people!
Either way, and I say this again, its all speculation at the moment. But I think we should all hope that the car comes good for the sake of the championship.
To be continued...
For the sake of the championship it would have been good if the new Subaru was fast and reliable...unfortunatelly it seems it's not any faster as the old one even it looks like to be more reliable.Quote:
Originally Posted by duff
I'm quoting you, but this could have gone to many others...Quote:
Originally Posted by DonJippo
I think you all are way to quick to draw conclusions after just one rally, some forumers already counted it out after one -1- stage! Even if the car has been tested by top drivers, this is the first rally it has competed in. Surely it didn't break the sound barrier, but come on - give it a break, I have no doubt they will make it faster, maybe already in Turkey. In the summer break, they have even more time to address some of the issues that surely will appear in the next few weeks.
It could of course happen that they won't make it, but I wouldn't be surprised if they have a much faster car in Finland. And if you see the times from Greece, they weren't far behind the fastest 2-3 cars.
All I want is for it to be as fast as the C4 and Focus, then the drivers can have a run for it.
Agree on that it is difficult to see how fast it is on this rally, because there where so many different tactics from the drivers but Petter was fastest driver overall on Saturday and was also fastest on the last split on the long stage (maybe hot brakes). Petter says he drove with margin all weekend, I`m not sure.
When Chris were sent out to do some good stagetimes he won the first fast one before he ditched it on the second.
Okey, car has same engine as last 12b so no power gain as yet, also from what I can understand, they tested parts on the last test before the rally that at least Petter meant made a big difference from first test, this parts was not on the car used in the rally.
So overall I am still optimistic.
Ps. Inboard cam shoved us Petters mouth only half open, wait till it go full throttle :D
The patter story is very sad in Monte and Sweden, yes it happens of many technical failures.