Someone PM'ed me saying that Loeb was 1 second behind Kovalainen in the test. Don't know how correct that is but it's about what I'd expect from Sebastien.
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Someone PM'ed me saying that Loeb was 1 second behind Kovalainen in the test. Don't know how correct that is but it's about what I'd expect from Sebastien.
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Originally Posted by Daniel
Loeb : 1'05"04
Kovalainen : 1'04"05
After 20 laps for Loeb.
A short video here :
http://wrc.is.free.fr/posts/2007/12/...-la-renault-f1
less than one second? wow I'm impressed
Anyone know if the Reno had TC?... Its still a amazing achievement if it did, but if not... its absolutely phenomenal !
Amazing! I was hoping for these results.
Was that compared with Kovalainens lap time last year?Quote:
Originally Posted by kakus
On the AtlasF1 forum, the poster AFCA says that he set a time of 1'5"0, just four tenths behind Kovalainen.
If the difference was only 0.4 sec there must have been external factors. In that case Heikki probably drove only few laps at the start and sweeped the track from dust. Does anyone know what was Sordo's time? Did he same number of laps with Seb?
By the way Heikki is extremely talented in rallying. He has done only two proper stages in his life and he instantly was fast in difficult conditions (Tunturi rally in the evening). If I remember he lost only seven second to Kristian Sohlberg (tough Solberg was taking it easy as there was no more competition). Everyone knows that few years back Heikki won Seb clearly with Peugeot 307 wrc and set the fastest time of the day with that car (despite the fact that Seb had done many run with it).
But at the end of the day it was only a SSS. Rallying is so much more than SSS'sQuote:
Originally Posted by Finni
No ,Quote:
Originally Posted by theugsquirrel
It was the same day and the same car.
A driving genius......
The car must have had TC...
It was an R26 in this test which is the 2006 car so it will have had traction control.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zico
Very impressive if these times are true. Say what you want about his domination in the WRC. A lot of people don't like him but the stuff he does simply demands respect.
Haven't seen much of it reported over here, which is no great surprise, especially as Hamilton was testing at Jerez. His time is no great surprise though, a fantastic talent driving a car, no matter what type, just look at Le Mans last year. Genius is often overused but this guy is one.
Wow. That's really impressive. I wonder if Renault F1 would like to test him again ... e.g. on a long stint and a short stint, to see if he actually could switch from WRC to F1.
I think the team will have bigger things on their plate depending on how todays hearing goes down. Should be fairly close to finding out what penalty the team will be handed.
According to french eurosport the difference to Heikki was one second.
Frequelin said that Kovalainen drove astonishingly well with C4. He doubt that Kovalainen has got some training from Marcus Grönholm as Heikki and Marcus are good friends.
yep, something like this according to MTV3Quote:
Originally Posted by Finni
"Heikki was amazing with Citroen C4. I talked about it with Sebastian and Dani and he seemed to feel like at home behind the streering wheel of C4," said Frequelin.
"As i know, he is good friends with Marcus and i believe Marcus have given some instructions to him. We already wait Heikki to WRC," joked Frequelin.
"In some places Heikki was drifting little bit too much with the car, but as total he drove well. He was attacking everywhere. I noticed he has lots of self-confidense. He did with the car what ever he wanted to", Loeb said.
Another video :
http://wrc.is.free.fr/posts/2007/12/...jour-en-images
Kovalainen driving the C4 http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/play...rc=ukeurosport
impressing driving of both drivers !!!!
Biggest difference? There's no grip and no power :laugh: :up:Quote:
Originally Posted by SUBARUNORWAY1
Yes, very impressed by both drivers :up:
Amazing!
http://www.eurosport.fr/rallye/saiso...vid58591.shtml
Interesting long interview with Loeb (but in French only) dated from yesterday evening after the F1 test.
He explains that the C4 was perfect all season long. He really enjoyed the battle with Marcus under these conditions. He says he was not confident before the season started because he had not entered a race for so long due to his accident and because the car was new. He reveals that a very different than usual set up which turned out not good played a part in the substandard performance in Finland.
Interesting. Maybe he can do better over there next year?
I think that Heikki wouldn't need many rallyes or many km's to beat Matt Wilson and likes.
This makes sense. I also wondered why Loeb was so slow (many stages as slow as Atkinson!) in Finland because one year back he gave good fight for Marcus. It was not all down to new Focus.Quote:
Originally Posted by 1LM1
sounds a little strange the setting thing, after all they have tested 2006 and 2007 in finland, and there is no rule that phrobid to change settings, but offcourse its possible.
Guy Frenquelin talked about that before NZ, that they used a wrong set-up in Finland , showed a few tests after and they would be a lot more competitive in NZ....and it was.