Monte Carlo 2011

I was on SS5/7 downhill section in last quarter of stage. The tyre choice of factory Škoda was nothing less than an epic fail. It was completely silly decision! Snow started to fall there at the end of first run and it was snowing all time when spies were going through. They made a narrow clean line on the road but after they stopped driving some hour before start, it disappeared under new snow. When stage started there was some 3-4 cm of snow on the road and cars on intermediate tyres were simply undrivable in downhill, it was very difficult to brake them somehow especially with the fog. On the other hand Delecour was by far most spectacular there. Most of the crews looked quite slow at our spot but guys who were near start where there was no snow told me that it was crazy to see them drifting in high speed on tarmac with winter tyres. But anyway we saw a looot of overtaking at our spot :D

So, tomorrow is another day but it's virtually lost for Juho, what a shame...

Thanks Mirek!

edit. Mirek do you know if at ss 8 Loix, Juho , and Jan had same combo of tyres? ie 2 intermidiates 2 snow tyres?

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Originally Posted by Mirek

Škoda usually use gearbox with top speed 171 on tarmac. Peugeot usually use 175, sometimes 165. Škoda used to have shorter 1-2-3 and longer 4-5-6 (Ford even more) but that may have changed through the time.

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But are there any practical differences btw the Sadev and Xtrac boxes? Sounded like the Xtrac feature of the two drop gears in the back diff is one, but saw that they changed the back diff on petters pug yesterday, but might be a normal change.

If they need the torque, cant they just put in a high 6 th, and have the rev drop there instead of btw 3 and 4th ?

I am amazed how quick they go from 1 to 6 gear, so maybe they need 7 gears to get more speed. It can not be healthy for the engine to run on the limiter for up to 40 sec to 1 minute.

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Originally Posted by KKS

Any snow pics?

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/bestofr...th/5373532004/

Incredible driving that the top guys all got through, but Bouffier was incredibly lucky.
Delecour is the Daddy today though, amazed that others all got it so wrong, I'd have thought that heading into changable conditions like that teams would have spread their risk and put some of there drivers each way on choice.

Whats the forecast for tomorrow?

Tommorow at night stages are going to start only 60 crews.Currently Elena is ranking 62th .

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Originally Posted by dimviii

Thanks Mirek!

edit. Mirek do you know if at ss 8 Loix, Juho , and Jan had same combo of tyres? ie 2 intermidiates 2 snow tyres?

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If i understood the tv commentators correct, none of them had the same combo. Loix on 4 snow tyres, Hänninen 2 snow/2 intermediates, And Kopecky on 4 intermediates.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4zlePobOoM Bouffier Spins

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Originally Posted by peg306

If i understood the tv commentators correct, none of them had the same combo. Loix on 4 snow tyres, Hänninen 2 snow/2 intermediates, And Kopecky on 4 intermediates.

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Loix had 2 intermediate and 2 snow as irc site wrote.Same Hanninen,but the diff between them at ss8 is very big if they had same tyres(1,20min) specially if you think the flat tyre of last km and 2 spins of Loix

Awful day :-/

Intersesting - by the end of day 2 Solberg still without a single SS win! And not able to keep up with Hanninen!:-o