same tyres...different cars...and in an event where tyre choice defined the winner not the speed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
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same tyres...different cars...and in an event where tyre choice defined the winner not the speed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
Accidentally this changed nothing on situation of these two as both made same disasterous choice. Except that it was clear. Even Sarrazin was way faster than Solberg. I wanted to show that it isn't possible to define explicit speed of a driver since in rallying there are way too many factors which are involved (of course unless they have same cars, same tyres, same road, same weather, same codriver, same testing...). And that applies for every event, not only Monte Carlo.Quote:
Originally Posted by N.O.T
A Ford Transit doing Rally?
Nothing new here in Portugal :P
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i rally reports VW Preparing a Polo for WRC led by french engineer FX Demaison .This probably adds more fuel on the fire with the Petter rumour.
Not really. Until he and Juho did that horrible tyre choice, Petter was the quickest Peugeot. And bare in mind that he only had tested the car in wet conditions, so his speed was very impressive.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
This's silly.. This guys drive s2000 cars for years and P.Solberg drove only one rally..
I was listening to Total Rally podcast the other day and the point was raised that the VW Group does not like the way Juho has consistently outperformed Jan K. and that they only put Juho in the SWRC as a way to get rid of him and allow Jan K to win a IRC title (I think this will never happen however). My guess is that Petter and Nasser will be at VW for awhile and Juho will have to find a drive with someone else.Quote:
Originally Posted by Allyc85
On that note, would VW do a full year in 2012 or do a small number of events like Mini this year??? Would Petter be happy to only do about 7 events in a incomplete car or would he be allowed to use the citroen?
VW group has a future WRC star in Hanninen, and will probarly not let him go if they have any sence. So who should Citroen pick as a number two driver, fast enough to score points on gravel AND tarmac if Loeb is leaving WRC after this year? Who is available and fast enough right from the start on 2012?
Yes, I am sure they are devastated they signed and developed such a talented driver. Maybe they put the wrong tyres on his car on Monte to make him lose that too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Plan9
I'm sorry, but I think that is rubbish. Maybe some marketing people at Skoda CZ would like Kopecky to do better but I can't see it going further than that.
Back to the topic, I think with a year or so experience of driving the WRC events and with the turbo cars it wouldn't take long for Juho to be ahead of Hirvonen. And on asphalt he is possibly Finland's best rally driver already.
Unfortunately that doesn't take much... we suck on tarmac :mark:Quote:
Originally Posted by RS