[WRC] Central European Rally 17-20.10.2024

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Originally Posted by denkimi

Mikkelsen's crash
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/sY7Pww71uZAYzxiG/

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Never like to see cars hitting fence posts after what happened to poor Craig Breen.

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Originally Posted by denkimi

But the main issue is that it adds nothing. It's just stuff that costs way too much and breaks all the time, without making the cars faster.

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Not true, the extra 100bhp does make them faster - cost and being unreliable are the main reasons to remove it.

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Originally Posted by deephouse

No, according to most comments here, Neuville will bin it, like usual (and get no points), and Tanak (who never do that) will dominate. #beingsarcastic

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Oh well that's wishful thinking by some. The Internet is anti Neuville or in general against crews with french notes. Just look at the dirtfished Solberg fanboy crowd wishing ill to Rossel.

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Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC

Not true, the extra 100bhp does make them faster - cost and being unreliable are the main reasons to remove it.

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The extra 100kw give something, but not a whole lot as it can only be deployed for very short bursts.

Remove the 100kw strong MGU, don't fit ballast in place of it and you have a faster car immediately.

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Originally Posted by becher

Oh well that's wishful thinking by some. The Internet is anti Neuville or in general against crews with french notes. Just look at the dirtfished Solberg fanboy crowd wishing ill to Rossel.

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Quite a silly conclusion I would say. Does everyone hate Loeb, Ogier, Fourmaux, <who else>?

Fan base is more of a question of personality-(mis)match, not based on the language used for pace notes.

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Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC

Not true, the extra 100bhp does make them faster - cost and being unreliable are the main reasons to remove it.

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Just the weight of removing the hybrid compensates the lost power.

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Originally Posted by becher

Oh well that's wishful thinking by some. The Internet is anti Neuville or in general against crews with french notes. Just look at the dirtfished Solberg fanboy crowd wishing ill to Rossel.

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I think that some of us are just scared of him crashing (me), that we wrote a wish that he won't bin it :D Sometimes, when he is in the lead after Friday, Saturday doesn't end well. We have to hope. I'm a big fan of him and I just hope for the title after 13 years.

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Originally Posted by meh

Quite a silly conclusion I would say. Does everyone hate Loeb, Ogier, Fourmaux, <who else>?

Fan base is more of a question of personality-(mis)match, not based on the language used for pace notes.

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Come on, it was obviously not a scientific analysis, but rather a bit of a joke.

What cannot be denied is that people often claim Loeb, Neuville, Rossel or Ogier (recently also with Fourmaux) are arrogant.

When you actually listen to how and what these drivers have to say there is only one of them that could be considered arrogant.

Also correlation=! causality.

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Originally Posted by becher

Oh well that's wishful thinking by some. The Internet is anti Neuville or in general against crews with french notes.

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Not sure about French-speaking crews in general but I also see some underappreciation of Neuville. I think it's more about Belgian fanbase not being as big and vocal as Nordic/Estonian/British so general narrative is more harsh on him than it should be.

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Originally Posted by denkimi

Just the weight of removing the hybrid compensates the lost power.

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But the car balance is designed for the weight so it cant just be removed.