Rally Norway 2009 2nd thread

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Originally Posted by WRC1

i am really no fan of Loeb or Citroen, but under this circumstances i hope he will win also in norway.

first hirvonen played his role: rear tires where completly gone, no grip, bla bla bla and than they write in theire press release that it was strategy..

how stupid is that?

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Generally Ford is good at handling this kind of situations, I mean Ford Management tell the drivers what to say to press but this time they did a mistake. Mikko did 2 different speeches!

Giving different speeches is a mistake but also getting slower for the tomorrow's road position is another mistake I believe.

I am a big fan of Mikko, I hope Mikko will win, but today, Mikko and the team made me sad! This wasn’t necessary.

Mine

I don't think this time team was responsible. I think it was Mikko's call which make me sad :(

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Originally Posted by pettersolberg29

bluuford - see wrc.com!

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I still believe that those words were put into Mikko´s mouth. He was just that much slower on that stage. if you make calculations then you can see that even without slowing he would have lost his lead very narrowly. It wont be disadvantage tomorrow to start first on the road.And I believe that Loeb wanted to be the first.
Anyway, which team admits that they just got beaten on the last stage.. big time!

Weather update:

Tomorrow: Cold and sunny

Sunday: very high possibility of medium snowfall starting from 9-10 AM. Temperature higher as well.

OK guys,take it easy...Everybody had in their mind that something like that will happen...Apart from that,the two speeches weren't opposite,but the latest was explaining better the first......!!!

Why starting first is an advantage??The second driver can see first's lines....

pictures from 1st leg:
http://www.rally-mania.cz/med.php?g=485&au=0

is there any other link with day1 video?
i can t play this one damn :(
http://www.mtv3nettitv.fi/?treeId=213&progId=4966

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Originally Posted by WRC1

i hope they find a solution with the starting position of boland...

if not and he starts 1 minute in front of sandell, than he has to overtake him in every single stage, maybe even on the 1,15km hamar stage ;o)

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They have put a 4 minute gap in after Boland, so Patrik should be ok :)

Yes, there are four minutes: http://www.autosport.cz/zavody/?id=698

I hope Patrik wont catch Eamonn, longest stage has 27,31 km

Pluto you have to register to watch the video :(