Conspiracy theory no. 2Quote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
Anyone better?
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Conspiracy theory no. 2Quote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
Anyone better?
Novikov is now put up as the winner on WRC.com !
Probably a mistake, but still. and still no winner in Monte on the overview.
No matter how great the fault of the rule breach is, the rules are final. If the car doesn't comply 100% with them, then its illegal. Plain and simple.
I feel for Mikko, but thats the way it is.
Certainly adds to what has been an epic story for the whole event. The media and promoters would be loving it!
wrc.com is abit of a fail lol - I can never get videos to work on thereQuote:
Originally Posted by Sulland
Disappointing end to a disappointing rally. Ok, you have to be at the finish (legally) to score the points but Mads won't want to have taken a win in this way and in fact I didn't like it that the podium finishers were all setting times 1m30 off the pace either. Would have been nicer to see Mads push a bit harder and go for the win on the stages.
Feel really sorry for Mikko, he drove to an excellent win and now loses it through no fault of his own.
As for Citroen and their appeal, then it seems clear - an incorrect unhomologated clutch part is an illegal part, end of. Regarding the turbo I have two thoughts, that there were no special reasons why Portugal 2012 should affect a turbo more than any other event, and so if it was normal for blades to distort they this would have happened on other events but no other post-event scrutineering has shown any problems, and secondly if there are limits your engineeers should work to a margin that ensures that you always stop the right side of the measurement.
This shows again what a stupid situation we have got into with homologation - there are numerous previous examples of cars being exluded or penalised where there is no performance gain - Brynhildsen Fabia brakes RAC a couple of years ago, Petters slight weight issue last season, Patrick Flodins "old" wheels in the PWRC a couple of years ago, and Fords glass.......it is all too complicated and expensive to guarantee compliance.
Congratulations to Mads
WT
Print screen!Quote:
Originally Posted by Sulland
The reason why for non-homologated part every competitor shall be disqualified is to stop discussion about the impact of the use of such part. If there is discussion allowed You get into the never ending spiral of opinions and explanations and into the battle of lawyers. The problem of last years was that FIA often changed the penalty to some lighter ones (like time penalty) for good of big factory teams but in the same time they kept same non-compromise stance against privateers.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
I agree that sometimes the tolerances or details specified in homologation are ridiculous (like few grams on a suspension arm of Protons) but since they are existing everyone must understand they are mandatory and they are mandatory for every competitors not only privateers.