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I'm telling this for a few times here the Puma is unreliable and slowishQuote:
Originally Posted by mknight
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Kinda weird to see an ad for a rally car at stageside.
showing new rally car on a rally event is really weird indeed.. microwaves and hairdryers would be better
I know this might be hard for your simple mind to process but there is a rather important undertone.Quote:
Originally Posted by TypeR
When rally started it was normal road cars, manus started to support it to sell more of the same road cars.
Next step is a car that is only partly based or only looking like a road car. Still the goal is to sell the roadcar.
Then you have the "brand building" where you sell the brand and the brand then might release a "rally inspired" roadcar. Still you try to sell the roadcar.
This from Skoda is still a bit of brand building, but since the motorsport division is funded by rally car sales it actually aims on selling the rally car and not the road car.
But yeah it is still a car with wheels that you want to sell, carry on.
Dose anyone know what happened to Neuville?? no speed at all for the whole event
Pretty much his normal speed in every Rally FinlandQuote:
Originally Posted by 1988senna
Lappi rolls three times over... continues to finish...
Oh Ep...
Misheard pace-note or something else?
Meeke 2019 vibes from Lappi there.
Think its over for Lappi. Was leaking like Exxon Valdez.
Slided sideways into a rut, which was just too deep. Lappi slided into a rut almost perpendicular - like into a small wall. Hope he will be able to finish, but according to WRC live comments, that is unlikely, because there are reports, that cooling fluid is leaking heavily.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eli
They are patching the leak with epoxy right now - if it holds, they can continue but with cracked windscreen and damaged rear aero it's likely that Evans can get past.
I think they are allowed to fix the windscreen in the regroup before the Power StageQuote:
Originally Posted by jonkka
Lappi why, why?? Your place on podium was secure...
Are they? I thought that regroup is just regroup, no external servicing?Quote:
Originally Posted by rallyfiend
For me it reminded a bit of Colin in Cyprus 2002. Hope their fix can hold.Quote:
Originally Posted by mknight
https://youtu.be/XEE8INiRmnM?t=1211
You are right, they can only fix with the tools and parts they carry in the car. The crew may get some food and drinks, that's all.Quote:
Originally Posted by jonkka
Good good, for a minute I thought that rules have been changed and nobody bothered to tell me. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by AnttiL
Was more about the timing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Erki
Meeke 2019 - Sunday before PS, nothing to fight for, completely unnecessary and in a Toyota
Pretty much perfect match with Lappi today
What a stupid mistake by Lappi, just made his 2023 seat prospect much more difficult for himself.
A leaking radiator can damage the engine. I thought Evans had the same problem in Sardegna early on and they retired the car to salvage the engineQuote:
Originally Posted by jonkka
it.motorsport.com reporting that Lappi used water from a nearby lake to fill the leaked coolant .... :eek:
I told you so already yesterday in response to the drivers situation with M-SportQuote:
Originally Posted by Eli
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Originally Posted by Sergiow
Meeke was even in super rally. Luckily Lappi had still Evans behind so team points were not affected.Quote:
Originally Posted by mknight
Just look at the standings on this rally and season overall. Huge gaps, M-Sport guys have their own championship in their own dimension.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sergiow
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Yes I'm aware their situation is (mostly) due to Rovanperä & Ogier being in the car, but we were talking about M-Sport yesterday and still they're (Toyota) out in front in both championships. No doubt their car is better, however they still have all their drivers (apart from Lappi) in the top 5, whilst Breen is the highest running Puma driver in 6th. Side-note, luckily for them Hyundai have shot their own legs with their car this year.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sergiow
Drivers situation in Toyota is completely different cause they have two drivers that fight for win in every rally. 3rd guy doesn't really matter when they are leading the championship easily anyway (but it mattered in 2020).
But it's a bit unclear what sort of instructions Lappi has? Backup the other drivers and secure points or go for best result? He acts like the second one, but doesn't have the last tiny bit of speed/consistency and mistakes come. Starting to remind of Meeke in whole 2019 season.
What I can see happening next year if he keeps going like this is that Toyota nominates Katsuta on at least the rounds Ogier doesn't do or even on all (with Ogier in 4th car).
https://www.instagram.com/p/Cg8vhXij...d=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
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www.rallye-magazin.de has already a very fine collection of WRC Finland 2022 videos (although that regional rally rolling over same stages is technically speaking not WRC)
https://www.rallye-magazin.de/wrc/ar...d-2-tag-48843/
The long list of zeros from Solberg also matters a lot in manus champ.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eli
Exactly, and yet we'll still see him in a Rally1 next time out instead of taking a break and going back to WRC2.Quote:
Originally Posted by mknight
What me got thinking about the team Toyota situation is why up until now Neuville is still 2nd in the championship despite all those tech problems. You should expect that a second Toyota driver would hands down in 2nd place in the championship standings but that is absolutely not the caseQuote:
Originally Posted by mknight
https://d19p4plxg0u3gz.cloudfront.ne...ebp?v=l2ag2tm8
Evans seems to have declined a bit in both speed and consistency with Rally1 cars.
First in the 4th rally he was seemingly back to normal.
Lappi without windscreen, probably was told due to safety reasom
Yes, windscreen change or removal is allowed in regroups.Quote:
Originally Posted by TypeR
I just feel Evans had lost the fighting spirit with Rovanpera. I can't imagine how this can happen because Evans is the person closest to the champion in the last two years. But the result is Rovan can let Evans surrender .That's the things that Ogier never did for Evans
Who said Rally1 cars don't jump as much?
Good job by Huttunen but car issues let him down.
Very ordinary rally by Greensmith with one 4th fastest time the only highlight. Should be doing a bit better by now.