Think Evans and Katsuta will be ordered to bring the cars home after that and won't go 100%. Unless Fourmaux pulls something out, Tanak may well be on course for the full 30 points here.
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Think Evans and Katsuta will be ordered to bring the cars home after that and won't go 100%. Unless Fourmaux pulls something out, Tanak may well be on course for the full 30 points here.
How the Saturday points thing works.
If Ogier will not finish today, will Tänak get 1st place points for Saturday or just Ogier will not get his Saturday points?
Tanak will get 18. Everyone will be bumped up a place
Tanak is looking like the likely winner of this rally, but Neuville is the one counting his blessings. Ogier retired after a simple mistake, Neuville went off twice and survived without any damage
Ogier went off yesterday in the same spot as Neuville, survived with no damage. Today Ogier went off twice. Three times in total.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kras
It is the case the whole season with Neuville. He always crawled back and take maximum out of bad situations. That's why he will probably win the championship.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kras
Oh well, from 2nd to 1st and from 4th to 3rd both gains 3 more points and Ogier retirement does not change the situation between Tänak and Neuville.
18-15-13-10-8-6-4-3-2-1
These Ogier mistakes I dont believe would've happened if he was 100% convinced he was able to win the Title. The concentration and determination just hasn't been the same as if he was full-time.
Isn't it 12 points for third?Quote:
Originally Posted by meh
Edit: nope, seems to be 13?
Maybe he is 100% on it, but now he have proper challenge from many guys behind. Drivers becoming now more competitive, less differences in times and the risk of overpush getting higher and costly mistakes happen. I like it that way, I like that it will go on the wire on the last round, I like it to be more harder. Right now, it's very good for the championship. When Seb ''retired full time'' I was like, oh yeah... He will do that because the guys behind are closing on him and it clearly shows this year how frustrating he is.
I wasnt saying that Ogier is terribly unlucky, It's just that offs usually don't end that well
start time, CER times
13h15 : Gryazin
13h19 : Solberg
13h23 : Mares
13h27 : Kajetanowicz
13h31 : Marczyk
13h35 : Fourmaux
13h39 : Mikkelsen
13h43 : Serderidis
13h47 : Munster
13h51 : Katsuta
13h55 : Neuville
13h59 : Evans
14h03 : Tänak
It used to be different. Ogier getting away with it most of the times. Maybe he likes it more when he's the one being chased than the one who is doing the chasing. With Neuville it seems it's the complete opposite.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kras
Manufacturers championship not over I think?
Say what you wanna say but this new point system is something else...
As a long time WRC follower I couldnt explain it to casual fan so he gets it :D
This whole season Ogier has been over the limit. I remember so many moments from him that he has gotten away with.
Guess his luck is finally running out
Oh yes. I don't like mathematics and look at me using Excel. It's Sunday man.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lead
Countdown to Seb blaming no gravel crews in that stage in 10, 9, 8, 7, 6........
If he mentions the FIA, he might have to pay that 30k fine!
Btw Why no gravel crews on last stage?
Haha, we can start calling rally week Sundays "The Excel Day" :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Integrale
Yeah, though the same. He used to be slower and trying to get as many points as he can while being careful. Now he seems faster than before, but also crashing. Maybe its also because of being part time from the start, not really thinking about whole championship so seriously.
Ogier's crash: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DBV6n...JsdDRmdg%3D%3D (sorry If a repost)
https://x.com/DirtFishRally/status/1...585801/photo/2 - the rear-right wheel off
Ogier is getting old but Neuville, Tanak and Evans are also at age when drivers usually start to decline a little. I think fact that this year he need to "catch up" due to missed rallies makes him little more desperate and more error-prone.
It feels Neuville is either simply quite lucky this year and/or he is good at understanding at which stages it makes sense to be more risky and where it's better to just accept less points. I keep my fingers crossed for him and hope this comment will not age like milk.
Two Poles in top 10 overall and 18-years old Hubert Laskowski is 4th in WRC3. I hope to see this guy in rally1 someday.
It is interesting that there is enough slack in the telephone cable to knock the pole down without breaking it.
There was no time for them pass. The schedule is tight on Sunday with no mid-day break.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tauri_J
I remember it was a bit like this in his last year at Citroen, when he was trying to do more than was realistic and he would have offs that you expect from a new guy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tauri_J
Rovanpera was also getting away with everyting for 2 whole season and this year not so much. Weird season indeedQuote:
Originally Posted by Integrale
We can say that there is lack of competition in the WRC, but listed guys have provided us really nice battles. In most cases it is not known in advance who is going to win. If we take them away, let's in 2-5 years perspective - what we have left? Rovanperä. For new guys, such as Pajari, it still takes some cooking before they are ready to think about fighting with Rovanperä.Quote:
Originally Posted by Backa
Those cables sag considerably and aren't usually tightly attached to poles (instead just run through a hoop).Quote:
Originally Posted by Morte66
If you look at our pickems this year, you can see how many times we actually predicted the right winners on all rounds, as much as I don’t like the new point scoring system, there’s no denial it added extra pressure (& competition) to all the crews, making the rally outcome, more unpredictable.Quote:
Originally Posted by meh
If we take away Neuville, Tanak, Evans, Ogier.. We stuck with Munster, Serderidis, Mikkelsen. One of those three would challenge for the title. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by meh
I hope Neuville, Tanak and Evans keep competing for many more years
Nice one, Mares.
WRC2 field - quite surprised that Greensmith has been out of the picture.
The whole weekend he was nowhereQuote:
Originally Posted by meh
Will Tanak get any call?
Alrdy on airplane mode :cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by deephouse
Fourmaux.Quote:
Originally Posted by deephouse
Mikkelsen fast on splits compared to Adrien
Glory run from Mikkelsen? Seems like it...
just not ashamed by FordsQuote:
Originally Posted by macebig
Seems that Taka takes the fight with Tänak seriously