Neuville have time compensation from Portugal?
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Neuville have time compensation from Portugal?
He only lost a minute, the third split time was wrong
Now Paddon is in Neuville's dust, ironic.
No breaks.... Shame
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He got back 12s he lost in Latvala's dust in Portugal.Quote:
Originally Posted by KKS
flash info (10 - Latvala Jari-Matti / Anttila Miikka): If I don't get the time back here, when I am in dust behind Ostberg and fighting so hard, I will stop this sport.
And this is the result of FIA policy when they started to giving notional times for "sporting" issues. So we will see request for notional times (because of dust or catching slower car or any similar rally issues) more and more...
he can still take a lot of points back, without power stage he would take 6 points back at the moment.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eli
OK, so it's fair. -12sec in Portugal, +60sec in Sardegna.... it's some justice in a sport :DQuote:
Originally Posted by mknight
Still 4th O/A and in front of Ogier. That's still valuable so hoping the mechanics will fix his car so he can bring it to the end like that.
He needs to demolish the 22 points lead Ogier has come Rally Finland, if he can get there leading, would be great.Quote:
Originally Posted by EstWRC
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and theres still a long way to go, the stages will be even rougher in the afternoon
Paddon deserves a victory. Still long time to go ...
In terms of Championship this really was Neuville's best chance to reduce the gap massively
- slow twisty rally where Hyundai excells, lots of cleaning
- Poland and Finland have less cleaning and both Ogier and Ford are fast on that kind of roads
- Germany and Spain are at best equal, possibly advantage Ogier
As I said before, shame for the championship... Hopefully Hyundai will manage to cut the gap from M-Sport despite it all.Quote:
Originally Posted by mknight
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The championship is far from over.
exactly, we are just half way through!
Interestingly usually there is way more drama among R5 cars but today while WRC crews suffer from punctures or techical issues the top R5 crews keep unusually strong and tight. On these three stages Kopecký was 1,3 sec. faster than Camilli and 4,7 faster than Veiby. None of them suffered any important issue and they were near equal in all stages.
I can just imagine Neuville trying to hunt the leaders down and crash. He can get very angry and erratic.
Does Tanak know the Fiesta is supposed to be not as fast as a Hyundai on the twisty roads?
Kees Burger overdoing Mickey's jump "a bit"
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Had to go out this morning... have I missed anything ? ;)
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#WRC #RallyItalia SS12
@Craig_Breen: "The car was doing all sorts of things. Something transmission related I think. I drove at road speed."
Yes, he said after Mexico that this is the area they have to work and improve a lotQuote:
Originally Posted by Zeakiwi
Let him clean the road for two days and he will be down the drain as usual.Quote:
Originally Posted by sollitt
Wow another wild rally, I honestly thought Sardinia would be a bit less crazy but looks like 2017 isn't having it!
Jari-Matti Latvala
Not blaming @MadsOstberg for what happened this morning. He doesn't have radio in the car so he couldn't know that we were behind him #WRC
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Almost sad listening to Mikkelsen after the stages.
"Scared to death, rear is all over the place"
"Dampers are really bad, bouncing all over the place, I've got zero control"
He is probably pointing at the problems here.Quote:
Originally Posted by SubaruNorway
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And some people blaming Meeke for that rear-end loosing in:Quote:
Originally Posted by SubaruNorway
- Sweden
- Argentina
- Sardegna
When did he say that?Quote:
Originally Posted by SubaruNorway
Do You believe overdriving a slow car until the point of uncontrolled accident is a good thing? The car may be bad but pushing it into a big crash everytime is a pure gamble. Moreover a gamble which helps nothing.Quote:
Originally Posted by KKS
Colin Clark*@voiceofrally
I think we need to be a bit careful when crucifying @krismeeke after his off yesterday. Best wait to hear exactly what happened
By the way I fail to see how the two Japanese guys can make it in Toyota WRC team.
yeah i was thinking the same, I assume Toyota will pay for extra cars for these guys, even keeping Hanninen would be better.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
Mikkelson needs to watch whats he says..
or Citroen wont have him back..... :)Quote:
Originally Posted by SubaruNorway
What he said.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
Also who spend most of last year preparing? Citroen and Meeke. Who developed the car and sets it up for himself? Meeke.
As I have written many times this year it's very interesting that Citroen does not have a good setup for every other section and every second rally. Not testing enough/wrong? Hard car to set-up?
Starting to look like the last option. Then again this year we see test vids from Ford and Hyundai all the time, but not so much from Citroen. (that by itself doesn't mean they test less though)
The concept of the car was designed by Citroen Racing.. and mostly touring car engineers.. before Meeke or Breen even sat in it. There is major homolgation issues with the car that cannot be changed. And to prove the point.. the car is mega on Corsicia becuase that is utimately what is was designed for.
Also i heard that Citroen have cancelled a development test
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Originally Posted by mknight
Some very protective comments regarding Meeke.
Time for him to sit out an event and restart his mind. Even if the car is faulty and bad, he's definitely not helping.
I prefer to be careful with blaming him for that. It is possible that the Citroën engineers just know better if You understand what I mean.Quote:
Originally Posted by mknight
Maybe do no harm..
But it looks like without Meeke the car would have been classified to Room 101 long before now.Quote:
Originally Posted by BigWorm