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Evans season just hadn't worked out with the combination of the new car, his own mistakes and Rovanpera''s speed. Shame.
Great to see Mad-Max Lappi get to the end still in 3rd. :D
How far is the final time control from the end of the stage?Quote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
Congrats to Hyundai for building cars that won both top categories in Rally Finland!!!
Outstanding drive by Tanak. Epic performance. :champion:
I knew I should’ve put him first in my pickems, yet I’m so happy he took this win, one of his best!!!
In service park at Jyväskylä. 24 kilometers.Quote:
Originally Posted by Humber
Yesssss! Epic drive and epic rally!
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Bet he remembers his Pirelli cap this time....
Great fight and probably Ott's toughest win! Congrats to Hyundai Motorsport for sorting their reliability issues....I hope!
Ott made reference to his wife during the interview after winning - is the lady sick at the moment ?
This rally felt like what this season could’ve been, hopefully they can keep the momentum from here on out, fingers crossed! An absolute mega weekend from Ott, happy to see him on that top step of the podium again!
Yep. How would Tanak end without lunatic drive? I bet not worse than 3rd, maybe 2nd.Quote:
Originally Posted by bomber21
The car can't be complete crap then.
Neuville was same like every year here.
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Hats off to Ott, what a drive that was.
Now it is time for Thierry to deliver at his home event.
I'm not f@%king around. I have social media post from his wife where she openly states that.Quote:
Originally Posted by TypeR
I'm baffled that our media hasn't cought it or they are very sensible on this matter.
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His wife has made it public herself.
There is no need for such secrecy.
That's terrible news! :( Is that also the reason for skipping Monza last year?
I believe soQuote:
Originally Posted by AnttiL
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So how much points does rovanpera need in ypres to become champion?
That's terrible news. No-one knows what other people are going through. This is an example why you shouldn't criticise too much as you never know the full story.
There’s 150 points yet to be collected and he’s ‘only’ 94 points ahead so from Greece onwards he can get the title.Quote:
Originally Posted by denkimi
:)
Why the hell you had to mention it here? It is probably picked up already.
Breen beat Evans on the Power Stage by just 0.009 seconds ! :bounce:
Hey I can delete if that's the opinion
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Media bods probably already know, there's no need to make a big deal scoop out of it and alienate their publication. We immediately joked Ott had been a naughty boy, and people are going to talk after a comment like that. If he wants to half-mention something on live TV, he must expect people will be curious and that it'll become wider public knowledge.Quote:
Originally Posted by Päss1928
I don't need to know anything more and wish them all the best, but if you all want the comment deleted, lets spend 10 pages debating what he could possibly have meant as we usually do.
Dang it, the Breen/Puma combination surely has potential for something more. They need to patch things together through a rally weekend first though. Hope for better results in Ypres and Acropolis.
You got the hang of the place already 🙂Quote:
Originally Posted by WRCStan
Otherwise it was a great rally with a titanic battle at the top. Tanak was at 110% the first two days. The maturity of Kalle is amazing! MSport are being MSport again already.
The ever thoughtful rallyssimo.it chimes in their take on the actual M-Sport crisis:Quote:
Originally Posted by macebig
"Let's start from Monte-Carlo and the only victory captured by a Puma Rally 1. This victory, corroborated by Breen's third place, has certainly galvanized fans all over the world but could also have given an idea of the competitiveness of the car that it was correct at the time, but it is no longer correct now.
It was in fact the first race of the first Rally 1 championship. Ford had started earlier so it was pretty obvious that he could have an advantage, especially over Hyundai (which barely managed to finish the cars in time to send them to Monaco). But then, the two giants involved in the world championship, Toyota and Hyundai, certainly did not stand by and, race after race, they went to improve the performance of their cars. Can the same be said of M-Sport?"
"Confirming this theory is also the decline in the performance of the other riders in the blue oval who, race after race, find less and less space at the top of the test standings. If that's not enough, the very fact of not having carried out pre-event tests in Finland speaks volumes about the chances that the development of the Puma has gone hand in hand with that of rival cars. ( For example based on Motorsport.com article, ahead of this weekend’s Rally Finland Hyundai conducted three test days at its Finland test base, while Toyota completed four days spread across its four entries near to its Finland-based workshop)
If we take this theory for granted, then even Breen's errors can be seen in a different light. Mistakes always are, but when you're forced to run 110% to keep up with others, you're much more likely to make a mistake and pay dearly for it."
https://www.rallyssimo.it/2022/08/06/wrc-crisi-m-sport-e-davvero-tutta-colpa-dei-piloti/
Yes she isQuote:
Originally Posted by irish_tiger
No was a different reasonQuote:
Originally Posted by AnttiL
It's life, same everywhere - online, at the pub, at work. Somebody sparks gossip, facts kill gossip, people do nothing, somebody sparks gossip....Quote:
Originally Posted by seb_sh
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Originally Posted by logic
There are a few flaws in that analysis. A. Nobody has asked Breen to push "110%" until this very weekend B. A nearly middle aged Loeb is running circles around the other Pumas in every appearance and C. Loubet is matching (or surpassing) Greensmith and Fourmaux, despite much less time with the team and the car. Yes, maybe the Puma cannot beat the Rovanpera/Yaris combination (who can?), but the car is surely capable of more than a 7th place.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sergiow
Wait is that improvised picture or real?
Quality is potato'ish so cant really tell
real :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Tauri_J
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FZj_NFVX...jpg&name=small
This alsohttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...a7c574de6f.jpgQuote:
Originally Posted by TypeR
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"I've won a lot of races in my career but this is definitely one of the best. I'm not even talking about the performance but how I won. I had already won twice here in Finland but it was with Toyota, it's different. When you come here with Toyota, you are expected to win. But when you come here with Hyundai and you manage to beat two Finns on the podium, it's magic" confided the placid Ott Tänak to Olivier Gaspard (see https://www.rtbf.be/article/ott-tana...aient-11044181
Struggling with his car in Estonia, Tänak had obviously eaten lion three weeks later. How to explain such a change in behavior in his car... when the two rallies are similar, at least according to Thierry Neuville: "These are two different rallies" corrects Tänak straight away. "Estonia is an 'easy' rally, in Finland it's more technical. I still can't say we were happy with the performance of the car here, but we were able to be fast, especially in the at the beginning, when the guys from Toyota were still sleeping a bit. That's when they gave us the advantage and we were able to keep it."
A victory which is therefore likely to put balm in the heart of a Hyundai team weaned from positive thrills for a few months: “If we continue to work well, everything is possible. But we have to work. In Ypres, we will do our best. Last year, it was a little more difficult, we didn't know the stages. Now, we know them, it will be more interesting. I like the Ypres rally, it's a great meeting..."