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Remember that there is still 12 points to grab. Surely he will take some more out of that. Even if the rally would end right now he would still having decent lead for the last round. Having Ogier better than Tanak right now is helping him even more.Quote:
Originally Posted by becher
Yeah Championship is fine but still if he could turn it down a little bit he could have at least 3 more wins on tarmac.Quote:
Originally Posted by deephouse
For someone who is this fast on tarmac his strike rate is not helping his reputation.
Kaito was close to having a shitty evening.
Ogier should be still in the fight for the title for Japan, unless he has problems tomorrow and/or Neuville beats him for Super Sunday.
Neuville the only one of the top 4 who made a mistake so far, bad recce job.
Neuville's mistakes were due to too fast pacenotes. Surely he should've been erring on the side of caution with the notes (and in the conditions.)
Is there more drama to come? If Tanak has 5 points from Sunday points (is behind Neuville and Ogier realisticly, or even 4, behind Evans) and having bad PS with 0 or 1 point, Neuville is still WDC If he outscores Ogier tomorrowQuote:
Originally Posted by focus206
Realistically, Neuville would need Tanak to retire or have problems tomorrow, while also pushing hard to beat Ogier. Which is not very realistic.Quote:
Originally Posted by CeskyOndra
However he didn´t blame others. Just himself.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/hyund...tegy-comments/
As I said previously, Abiteboul just told Tanak to consider the risk factor after Mikkelsen had gone out.
Some images from Friday / Saturday: https://www.ir7.at/content/fotos_bes...llye_2024.html
https://www.ir7.at/content/fotos/2024/central3/1.jpghttps://www.ir7.at/content/fotos/2024/central3/2.jpghttps://www.ir7.at/content/fotos/2024/central3/5.jpghttps://www.ir7.at/content/fotos/202...0iAAsBBCT.webphttps://www.ir7.at/content/fotos/2024/central3/4.jpghttps://www.ir7.at/content/fotos/2024/central2/3.jpg
Same spot as Neuville, went wide and chose a hit to the bank instead of opening to the field. Seems like the right choice now.Quote:
Originally Posted by dupanton
Katsuta's onboard is unavailable from SS11. I'm guessing he did the same because someone already hit that bank when Evans went through (debris and a lot of dirt after the corner) and it wasn't there when Pajari passed.
Munster went into the grass a couple of corners after that. Tricky section on a very wide road.
Neuville feeling the pressure gives Toyota a chance, says Latvala...
https://rallyjournal.com/jari-matti-...-his-forehead/
Still.. Neuville was allowed to push and fight for ,,team points'', but when teammate came too close, then messages flew and ,,you better think about risk-reward''.. these things are spoken during meetings.. not during stages.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
No orders for lead-driver after losing 1st place and very valuable points like he says. Joker Cyril.
How do you know that Cyril didn't say anything to Neuville and that Neuville pushed hard in the afternoon stages? Neuville was 4th fastest on SS12 and SS14.Quote:
Originally Posted by TypeR
Don't attribute to malice what is adequately explained by incompetence.Quote:
Originally Posted by TypeR
Was on SS11 and 13 today.
On 11 I was in visual distance to a large Hyundai tent with 30+ Hyundai ppl. First sign of trouble was they all ran to the screen there. Would have been nice spot but ruined completely by anticuts on apexes of corners. I think 4 Rally1s lost a mirror on them, including Serderidis and Pajari. Would have been more but most cars were close to mirror-less already (last section of last stage of the loop).
On 13 I was in the area with the super-low heli passes. Here the anti-cuts were at start and exit of corners which worked quite well, everyone cut, but only with 1/3 of the car. Ogier was by far best to watch with handbrake into the junction and power-oversteer in cut in next corner, Tanak and Neuville surprisingly tidy, Mikkelsen exactly same power-oversteer as Ogier later. Evans weird wiggle in the long braking turn. Katsuta seemed to dive much more than other Toyotas in the front.
From Rally2s C3s were really tidy and on the edge of understeer. Greensmith very ragged without looking fast.
You acting like you know all the inside info going on in Hyundai's office... You know like 0.01% of the things that are being said in the teamQuote:
Originally Posted by TypeR
No, I don't know everything and even Cyril's number, otherwise I would have called him.Quote:
Originally Posted by CeskyOndra
It isn't my first rally to follow.. there have been some and some years, even way back before Tanak..
It all just is so see-thru..
Or confirmation bias.Quote:
Originally Posted by TypeR
We English might be hopeless at learning other peoples' languages but we have always been very very good at stealing words from them. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by jonkka
That’s interesting, quite a differences.
Tänak to attack it seems with just one hard
Neuville and Tanak to push probably, Mikkelsen's choice is interesting
Hard at the moment isn’t the right choice. Mikkelsen was all over the place
And puncture...Quote:
Originally Posted by EstWRC
That guy really can't get a break in that car.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rallyper
Pajari tested the limits, roll.
Pajari rolled.
Pajari rolled :(
Well, sod it. Pajari off and looks like that's his morning.
I’m telling ya the hard doesn’t work
Seems that Fourmaux got the Ford working finally.
edit: based on Neuville's comments and later-runner times, the road is getting really dirty.
Ogier slightly off
Ogier had one excursion to the field, lost 10s in first split
Fourmaux-Evans-Katsuta maybe was not the top3 prediction for the Sunday points before the day started. Only 1 stage done, but still.
He was very lucky once againQuote:
Originally Posted by meh
God, why did M-Sport had to fumble the set up so badly on Friday? Fourmaux would have definitely been with the leaders... Shame for Pajari, though. He was doing alright until that mistake. Third mistake in a row from Ogier under pressure,btw...You wouldn't see that in the Polo and Fiesta days...
Yeah but they are gaining a lot because of the more clean roadQuote:
Originally Posted by meh
He is getting older and clearly have issues of admitting superiority of others.Quote:
Originally Posted by macebig
How much it is Fourmaux feat Frod and how much it is about the clean road, we probably will understand with the 2nd pass.