Wrc Rally Argentina 2017

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Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC

Hydraulic issue hits Ostberg.. :(

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So here we go again. Fiestas let them down. feel sorry for them.

If it will be all OK, Evans must win this stage

That waterslash causing problems for Ogier, Ostberg & Evans.

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Originally Posted by KKS

As always now.... 1st pass of afternoon live TV stage broadcasting only at service park :(
2nd pass for all and wrc+

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What a shame, they managed to show both runs in sweden

Well done EE ! :D

Seems like Neuville are making mistakes, missed breaking and damaged the wheel.

i just cant believe this performance from Evans, why he didnt do this in 2015? he was nowhere on gravel then...good for him

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Originally Posted by BigWorm

Seems like Neuville are making mistakes, missed breaking and damaged the wheel.

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he was blinded by a low sun

Evans continues to do a good job, seems the tyres are working well today also. He has over a minute advantage but a lot will depend on the long stage today. If he doesn't loose a lot of time there he will have a pretty good position to win the rally. Given his tyres are actually more durable than the Michelin he could even win a bunch of time on the longer stages. Also the fight for 2nd will be interesting.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C-k_uZlXYAEn9g-.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C-k_uZkXgAAFmVI.jpg

Neuville now without spare wheel for two long stages.

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Originally Posted by seb_sh

Evans continues to do a good job, seems the tyres are working well today also. He has over a minute advantage but a lot will depend on the long stage today. If he doesn't loose a lot of time there he will have a pretty good position to win the rally. Given his tyres are actually more durable than the Michelin he could even win a bunch of time on the longer stages. Also the fight for 2nd will be interesting.

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According to stage end comments - if stage long it better for DMack's, if it will be shorter there is no such big advantage.

it doesn't look broken, perhaps he can inflate it again.

what problems ostberg had?

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Originally Posted by KKS

According to stage end comments - if stage long it better for DMack's, if it will be shorter there is no such big advantage.

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Is Los Gigantes going to be shortened?

Even so, with current pace and 1 minute advantage it's looking good for Evans.

Craig Breen
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We retire again, as we found an oil leak on their car during service. Mechanics will try to fix that, allowing us to run day 3 under Rally2 rules.

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Originally Posted by dimviii

once more,maybe you didn't read it(doubt it though)



This is not what we expected but fortunately this rarely happens. Our two cars, on a compression, had a heavy impact on the crankcase protector. We have to look at why we had such a strong impact there because we had not seen that it would be so impacting during the reconnaissance. But it's neither the fault of Kris Meeke nor that of Craig Breen, "said Yves Matton on the microphone of Olivier Gaspard, special envoy of the RTBF in Argentina.

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Matton said this in service after Meek got there and he saw footage only from Citroen cars. This comment is shown Day 1 Highlights. Its almost certain he couldn't have seen the footage from other teams at that point.
Neuvilles car jumps basically exactly the same way as Citroens do. Latvala and Sordo avoid the bump completely by driving a different line. Ogier avoids most of the effect by not braking into it. Ostberg even has it in the notes.

That is case closed for me as far as blaming car only goes.

Note that when Meeke crashes the first thing they do after the car has rolled is they say that "the car did it". If anything they have a serious case of mistrust in the car.

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Originally Posted by seb_sh

Is Los Gigantes going to be shortened?

Even so, with current pace and 1 minute advantage it's looking good for Evans.

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nope. If we be in Finland where 60+ stages with 7kms each - Evans didn't have such advantage.

Red Bull TV will broadcast live startig 17:50 CET

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Originally Posted by satukata

what problems ostberg had?

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Hydraulics problems -> nonfunctional handbrake and wonky differentials, plus he lost rear splitter in some watersplash.

SS11 was delayed?

Yes, starting exactly at this moment

i dont like this... Hope they can run it normally. maybe spectetors in wrong places?

it's starts.
First car Sordo at 09:30from start line

neuville https://twitter.com/LoveRally_Magui/...97535571668992

lucky boy.

Looks like this cars driving on dark side of Moon... no connection, no splits, real rally :D

What the hell happened with GPS and splits?

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Originally Posted by Allez Andruet

What the hell happened with GPS and splits?

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weak signal it seems.

That is what happens when you let useless countries organising events and give them immunity despite numerous fuck ups...

Sordo finished the stage.

no splits
no gps
no stage-end reporter

so no final stage times? see you at the end of day to find who was where? :/

Sordo 20:27.9

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Originally Posted by KKS

Looks like this cars driving on dark side of Moon... no connection, no splits, real rally :D

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If you have been on the stage, its actually a bit like being on the moon :)

No info all adds to the variety and excitement of Rally Argentina..

Last years fastest time on the first run of this stage was 20.34 by Paddon, Sordo already a lot faster...

Ogier lost 24 seconds to the leader on this one last year but he was cleaning the road.

20.06 by paddon almost 1 sec/km faster than last year.

20.03.1 Ott Tanak

Tänak 54 secs faster than with dmack's last year

we have splits for WRC2... lol

we had stage end connection too..... but only for 3 minutes :D