Rally Finland 2011

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Originally Posted by alleskids

Loeb lost my respect in 2009, when he needed Conrad Rautenbach, the slowest man ever in a WRcar, to stop for 13 minuts!!!!!!! to giove Loeb the 1 point that made him world championship

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then i guess you have no respect for any world champion because in the history of the sport there was not even 1 world champion who was not benefited from team orders.....

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Originally Posted by driveace

The fastest man was Hirvonen,as said winner of 13 stages,and remember its a FACTORY prepared Citroen against a PRIVATE team prepared car.The private team has to make money,and profit,so all the money has to come from other sources,namely Abu Dhabi etc.Where as Citroens money for the rally team is not creamed off to make a profit for anybody

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Yes Mikko was quick, but was driving with nothing to loose. Don't underestimate a drivers mindset versus his speed. Don't blame Citroen. You only think they can spend money... Wait till VW start.

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Originally Posted by Tomi

Latvalas own fault, he hesitated with changing set-up, and when he did it was far too late.

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i wonder what the fords were doing for 4 days of testing. and they said they found very good setups...

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Originally Posted by makinen_fan

i wonder what the fords were doing for 4 days of testing. and they said they found very good setups...

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Maybe they were busy in chosing what food design put on the roof of the cars... one of the most important thing to have a competitive car.

Has there been any pics of Citroen's rear suspensions? Mikko said the factory team had new different looking rear suspension compared to Petter and Kimi, I'd like to see what they have changed.

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Originally Posted by wildsir

Yes Mikko was quick, but was driving with nothing to loose. Don't underestimate a drivers mindset versus his speed. Don't blame Citroen. You only think they can spend money... Wait till VW start.

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And also Hirvonen had good road position right? Loeb won it from the front...that is impressive!

Fantastic rally once again!

We saw a lot of great driving, nice jumps and some crashes.

My photos: Rally Finland

I'm back from my first NORF and definitely not the last. What a weekend! Really amazing rally and so was the whole country (except a bit too many mosquitos :) ).

Not a good rally for me this time, i don't like the long days since it's no time to enjoy and going down to Lahti just made for too many spectators coming from Helsinki. My last Rally Finland for a while...

Some photos from NORF 2011:


http://samzon.kuvat.fi/kuvat/neste-ralli+07.11/