Last Summer, I would rather have had Petter Solberg in the team, but I am starting to wonder if he has lost some of his speed now.
Getting 4th is much better than crashing though.
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Last Summer, I would rather have had Petter Solberg in the team, but I am starting to wonder if he has lost some of his speed now.
Getting 4th is much better than crashing though.
For them who are blaming Kimi, look at this link http://www.ewrc-results.com/driver_i...86&driver=4674 how the best winner ever did Rally of Sweden in WRC machinery.
And stop crying like kids for candy if Kimi is not speaking after stage.
apparently Petters rear wing did not fell off by its own when Petter went off at SS5 LIkenäs 2.
According to Petters team, the rear wing was a bit loose after his off
and some a**hole simply pulled it off from Petters car and starting to runaway
with it.
Fortunately some other spectators ran after him and managed to take the spoiler from the idiot and
the spoiler was brought back to petter in an undamaged condition.
http://www.sr.se/sida/artikel.aspx?p...rtikel=3440056
rv - I did look, and I saw two things. Firstly, he finished the event without crashing. Secondly he showed incredible potential with a top 3 and a top 5 stage time. Kimi has achieved neither of these, and his times weren't good on any stage.
That was Seb's 1st snow rally. He did some good times at the end, and there were 3 times as may drivers who could have won that rally. Plus he went off. Kimi would have been way down in 2002, you have to remember that the amount of quality drivers and works teams is far less now.Quote:
Originally Posted by rv
Just heard on Rally Radio Raikkonen not speaking to Colin. What a tw*t!! It's not WRR's fault he can drive a rally car. Moody bugger....even Rossi (who is a bigger star and probably slower) would always chat.
But Loeb drove before Sweden 2002 a lots of rallies with other cars(Xsara kit-car, Toyota Corolla WRC, Saxo S1600...), for Kimi this is yust the sixth rally in his life, only second with WRC car....so, for me nothing to criticize over Kimi's performance. And we still have Saturday and Sunday....Quote:
Originally Posted by pettersolberg29
Seb in 2002 already have at least 3 years rally experience, for Kimi now just 6th rally.
I think that is to early to ask for him some good results - time will show :)
peace
Humble opinion. Just by looking at two onboards available (shakedown and ss2), Kimi needs a change in his pacenotes. First, he's got the same issue as Latvala had - pacenotes are read too monotonously and therefore, it's difficult to drive fast. Too much useless information there also.
If he could simplify them and Kaj could read them like Timo - it would help much.
Also, take your left foot off the brake pedal!!!
I agree entirely. Kimi wasn't awful - just a bit lower than I personally expected. Long term he has a good chance to compete in the higher points, but this rally has not been impressive, especially bearing in mind that this is the surface he has most experience with.Quote:
Originally Posted by rv