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Ogier had to be penalised..
They should make road order equal to the overall positions after each stage. Now that would be fun :D
What point of the regulations or rules was not really respected by Ogier??
Following the rally route. He didn't follow the actual route but took a wrong turn and then came back.Quote:
Originally Posted by René
In Finland there's been exclusion because crew overshot a junction in a road section. Codriver noticed his mistake right away but driver elected to drive 500 meters forward to make an (safe) U-turn at a bus stop. Someone saw this and reported it to the stewards. The crew was excluded.
It really is one of the most basic rules.
Yes definetely you have to follow the rally route all the time.Quote:
Originally Posted by Juha_Koo
If this had happened to someone else than Citroen driver surely he would have excluded... Sadly the WRC is like a French kindergarten...
That depends on the situation, if he only turned left instead of right and he didn't pass any time control, turned around and passed timecontrol for regroup then i don't see any reason why he should be penalised. You can say he didn't follow rallyroute, but hey you will actually have to give penalty to all guys going off the road and coming back onto it after crashing. I don't find it unlogical he didn't get penalty. Instead we should enjoy the fight that is coming up.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barreis
I think you would have to exclude many, many drivers then. With a start platform of only 25 crews there won't be too much at finishline. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by rp
That´s true also. Hopefully the rules are same for everyone after this, but we will see...Quote:
Originally Posted by wwbroe
yesterday we had a first taste of the competitiveness between the new wrc cars.Citroen had the upper hand by a good margin we can say.Today with Sebs having handicap due to start order it is going to be a lot clearer.Fingers crossed for fiestas to be competetitivefor the sports good.
13 mins left...
Ogier drove his car straight to service, turned the engine off and is getting out of the car when team members and co-driver came to tell him everything was not right. He then start the car and reverse it back to weighting and time control... I would not say this as a small mistake...Quote:
if he only turned left instead of right and he didn't pass any time control, turned around and passed timecontrol for regroup then i don't see any reason why he should be penalised. You can say he didn't follow rallyroute, but hey you will actually have to give penalty to all guys going off the road and coming back onto it after crashing. I don't find it unlogical he didn't get penalty
it was alreeady evident from sweden that the citroens were ahead...
is the british flying failure of the ages going to start again ???
why when i am going to access splits there is a note popping saying that the internet explorer cant open the page?
Ogier cleaning the road and still manages to be quicker than Loeb on 2 split.
where is Tolis when you need him :mad:
Damn Ogier is fast. Is there a problem with dust now?
don't use internet explorer. I prefer Google chrome.Quote:
Originally Posted by dimviii
It's faster and everithing works fine and has the translactor
use firefoxQuote:
Originally Posted by dimviii
some nice driving by ogier....poor ford kids..
Hello Dimitris!!! I am using Mozilla, so I don't have a problem. I used Internet Explorer and I had never this kind of problem. After 3rd split, Loeb 1 second faster than Ogier.
Thanks Ricardo & NOT&Tolis
great battle i guess whoever finishes 1st on this day will also be the winner....i do not think quesnel wants this to go on for ever...
Loeb starts to capitalise a bit...
crazy results once more.....last years time was 18:18....this year 18.25... the stage was exactly the same.
Ibarrilla 1 at 2010 time=18.18,3 Loeb
Ibarrilla 1 at 2011 time=18.25,8 Loeb
Impessive! Ogier not loosing time while cleaning road.
Such small differences can be caused aside cars by anything else like tyres, air temperature, humidity or actual state of the road...
hirvonen in his usual quitter style......latvala tries.
yes...my guess is only tarmac will tell the story.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
Yes we can say equal speed for new wrc cars.How you see Ford speed Mirek?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
What happened to JML? He lost allot of time from the last split to the finish of the stage.
Latvala Puncture, everytime he tries something happens :( .
FR tyre puncture "It was going well, but I don't know, I felt something wrong with the tyre. Same situation like yesterday
To much flat tyres for new Michelin tyres.Pirelli was bulletproof.
Solberg Petter a bit faster than Hirvonen on the first three splits...wonder how many times he will gain(or lose)at the end of the 29km ;)
ogier is just crazy, what a talent!
Kuippers stopped
Why would it?Quote:
Originally Posted by N.O.T
Same small deviation thing at tarmac surface as well as on gravel.
No Kuipers Jr at the end of SS11 :confused: