2008 Acropolis Rally - official thread

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Originally Posted by Finni

Oh boy, go and watch results of rally of Portugal..

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A s2000 rally with almost none competitive groupN cars

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Originally Posted by Finni

New Subaru seems another nightmare. No single good time. I would say that Petter would have done better times with previous Impreza considering his road-position.

LOL Subaru LOL

Annoyed by that crappy team. In those first stages that car was probably in the level of Suzuki (considering the fact that Petter and Chris are better drivers than Gardemaister)

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Give some time to Subaru. It is not easy to come out with a completely new car to a rally like a Greece. The time loss for stage winner is not so bad at all.
SS1 0,8 s/km
SS2 0,49 s/km
SS3 0,62 s/km
The most important is that the car is consistent. Petter had realy interesting split times with old car. At the start of the stage he had superb splits and at the end the time was nightmare. now the time is getting better as the stage progresses.

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Originally Posted by Gard

A s2000 rally with almost none competitive groupN cars

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Hänninen - current leader in rally and most probable pwrc winner - is not competitive?

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Originally Posted by Gard

A s2000 rally with almost none competitive groupN cars

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It seems that you did not followed Portugal. There were driving also the fastest group N drivers in the world. Hänninen and Aigner without the doubt and also Araujo and Sousa. Hänninen scored only two times special stage´s top six time and who is now leading the gr. N in Greece...

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Originally Posted by Gard

A s2000 rally with almost none competitive groupN cars

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Then look at the Australian championship. It really depends upon the commitment of the drivers both in GrpN and S2000. Just wish Toyota would get the car homolgated properly so it could compete against others in say Rally NZ.

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Originally Posted by Gard

S2000 will never be as fast as GroupN on gravel

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Want to bet on that one? :)

LATVALA J.-M. / ANTTILA M. / Puncture of front left tyre. "It was very strange. Honestly, we din't hit anything. I do't understand what happened. Simply it went down off the rim."

The S2000 is clearly a faster car but I think its still very unreliable therefore its no chance to win the overall PWRC championship in a S2000, it's for both GrN cars and S2000 more like a survival game in rallies like this.

Running order for tomorrow starts to look familiar - again...

Sordo will lead this rally after day1, mark my words :)