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Absolutely not, but I like rallying, even when it's not just talking about speed.Quote:
Originally Posted by N.O.T
My ideal championships, four endurance (one extreme endurance as Safari and 3 more or less endurance) 4 asphalt (with different types of asphalt), 2 on snow, 4 on good gravel roads.
It would provide a great champion.
A good result for Paddon after the dissapointment of day two
Disagree entirely. Østberg in my opinion will never make it at the very top level. He simply doesn't have the pace except on snow, and on tarmac he is nowhere. He never wins stages on pace alone, and is much worse than Loeb, Mikko, JML, Petter, Sordo and Ogier. And also Meeke and Mikkelsen if you look outside the WRC. He will always be an average driver and maybe a solid number 2 for a young team or new manufacturer, but I would put my house on him never winning a rally which isn't on snow.Quote:
Originally Posted by Iskald
Sorry if this sounds too negative - great result for him today, but he was brilliant at surviving and not pushing and thereforeon 95% of rallies this isn't enough. JML, Petter, Sordo and Loeb don't all have big problems on every rally!
For me the questionmark is different...Both Citroens have a shot at the title Loeb with his speed and Mikko with his consistency...With JML nearly out of contention,can Petter bring the fight to his rivals???
I cant see Mikko being allowed to be a world champion, unless Loeb is miles behind everybody at the end of the year. Or he breaks his leg!Quote:
Originally Posted by Psycho!
I doubt any of these things will happen. I think JML is way out of title contention now, you could probably get away with messing one event up, but when youre up against Loeb, you have to be perfect from start to finish.
JML has now messed up 3 events, its just way too much to pull back. Its really frustrating, because I had him down to do much better this year. Where has all of the consistency gone since the last half of last season??
Just as well MW has Petter to pick up the pieces after JML has unfortunately crashed again.
One more thing aswel, I bet Loeb spent most of this weekend on his back laughing and celebrating. Imagine his dissapointment when he crashed... and the relief when JML and Petter also crashed! I bet he was clapping his hands!
I don't think Loeb's mentality is to feel happy and shout it loud when opponents have any kind of problems :s
Seb was at Le Castellet with his race team - he was pretty focused on that :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by Tom206wrc
But - a couple of years ago our Mr Loeb messed up at least four events and became champ anyway, with a little tactical help from MW, but still.Quote:
Originally Posted by tfp
Correct me if I'm wrong but , i feel that Østberg has done his career a bit too alone to develope the last bit of speed to be a top driver. Loeb, Hirvonen, Ogier, Sordo, Solberg all had experienced team mates at their beginings at WRC level, and even Novikov and Tanak have good advice from Giraudet and Märtin
Sounds a bit like Hirvonen, especially in his earlier years. Besides all, consistency counts a lot in modern WRC and Östberg is not far from the top of the leaderboard with decent points already in the bag, despite actually missing one rally! Even if you suggest that he isn't fast enough to be a pace-setter, he could certainly be a solid #2 by collecting a decent amount of points by the end of a season. Mads is still young and I think there is more to come from him if funding doesn't become an issue.Quote:
Originally Posted by pettersolberg29