Come on Matty, pull your finger out!
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Come on Matty, pull your finger out!
To be fair, he's still learning and getting that vital experience needed..........
.......oh, okay maybe not.
Anyway, let's hope Sweden is a good one and we have more than the usual suspects at the front. The sport needs more challengers if it is to get more interest and viewers. I suspect Loeb will take it relatively easily - and only really push if he thinks he can win. If not, then a solid podium will do.
Heres a clip i found from SS1 tonight http://svtplay.se/v/2323228/motor/p-...p104183,1,f,-1
what happened to Henning Solberg? he just seems to have disappeared off the times sheet on wrc.com. Has he had a crash during ss1?
Totally agree, last years WRC cars were far quicker over a stage than the quickest of the group B cars before the ban, but which would you rather watch????Quote:
Originally Posted by BDunnell
This is brilliant that the playing field is more level. Why couldn't it be like this all the time? I would have liked it if the production cars were the same as before, then they could get in amongst the WRCs.
So Matt's 17th... Unfortunately, when I read his comments before the rally
"the challenge will be to get up to speed straight away on the first day. Of course that is going to be very difficult as we’ve got a totally new car...but this year is going to be a leap into the unknown for everyone. I don’t think any amount of testing will fully prepare us for what’s in store.”
It's already a losing attitude, preparing to fail!
Maybe this would have been a more fitting response: "The challenge will be to get up to speed straight away in the sixth year".Quote:
Originally Posted by rjbetty
Walter Röhrl winning the Monte three years running in three totally different types of car Matt Wilson is not.
He also said on TV that everyone will be starting equal and everyone will be equal because they all have same spec cars and are going into the unknown.
HAH! Yeh right, Wilson same field as Ogier?!? I don't think so. Not a chance.
of course development will see the 1.6T to be faster than the WRCs of the old....but some suggested that would be 1sec/km faster right out of the box....and when i was saying that during testing they lookedslow they rushed to critisize me...but i was right once more...it gets boring.Quote:
Originally Posted by dimviii
Good morning all, 7 minutes away from stage start.
2011 season is about to be all go!
3 minutes to go....
Surely we are not the only two up to listen in...haha
no splits so far....
Im up as well!! =)
At least three of us logged in.
im here too,good season to all.
First split of Solberg..
P. Solberg appeared ...no latvala or PG....
Hola.
Solberg faster than Loeb on 1st split.
Loeb next split 4.11.4, last year 3.54.2 ;)
Good news there! Waiting for a few more splits in then will see how the sweeper/new car syndrome is to play out for us...
Ogier off to a slow start. 9.4 slower after 6 km...4th on road.
Ogier losing quite a lot of time..
G' morning fellas, long time no see... Interesting start, I have to say. Henning fastest on split 1? Snowy conditions, perhaps..
Latvala 27 seconds quicker than Loeb. Massive time difference because of road sweeping...
Latvala 27,3 seconds faster than Loeb :D
Whaaaat? Loeb must have made mistake at the end.
Yeah, also Petter so much faster - it's gotta be a mistake from Loeb's side...
This is geting interesting. Mat 20 sec loosing to Loeb in second split, maybe he should step out of the car in the middle of the stage and hide in the Swedish woods, that would be less embarasing, than finishing behind group N cars.
Terrible time by Loeb....
Wow, Hirvonen 14.3 quicker than Latvala!!
No, just sweeping...Quote:
Originally Posted by jonkka
Mikko 14 secs faster than JM!
LOEB S. / ELENA D. "Very very difficult to be first on the road. Lot of snow, we were completely stopped. I'll loose lot of time today."
from rally.cz
Look at Mikko? Back with vengeance - or benefiting from the road conditions...
Loeb is running first, i think there is a lot of snow on the road för hte first car!
Loeb said at the stage end there is nothing he can do but keep the car on the road. Hirvonen just in, 14 seconds faster than Latvala, Loeb is 31 seconds slower as first on the road than Hirvonen 5th or 6th on road. Big difference.
Go Wilson, GOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! :)
What a great time for Matthew, he is getting closer to his objective. :D :D :D
Great start by anderssson ..... lets see