Vodafone Rally de Portugal 2015

SD Videos

WRC & Ostberg roll https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSkty7vL9o0

SD WRC https://youtu.be/Yzy8i2ljI6s

Jumps https://youtu.be/zOnU_pWTAos

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Originally Posted by BMV

Any time for McKenna & Raftrey, Noel?

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Usual story, nothing outside first few in each class. No doubt something will turn up later. Although Daniel and Dean should be blowing their own trumpet at such a big event. Dean's site not updated, no tweets for 2 days and Daniel's Twitter feed went from before SD straight to the press conference.

Grondal is telling that he must start behind a Mitsubishi tomorrow. He was 40 sec faster than the Mitsu on shakedown...on 4km!! The organizers will not let him start before or not give him 2 minutes or more. The rally is destroyed before start. He will be in the dust all friday.

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Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC

Jumps https://youtu.be/zOnU_pWTAos

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The landings of Fabias R5 weren't impressive at all. The car also looks too soft. Seems like there is still a lot of work on the suspension setup.

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Originally Posted by Mirek

The landings of Fabias R5 weren't impressive at all. The car also looks too soft. Seems like there is still a lot of work on the suspension setup.

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I thought it looked quite strange too. Not like a rally car. Maybe its just a visual effect..

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Originally Posted by VFTS

Grondal is telling that he must start behind a Mitsubishi tomorrow. He was 40 sec faster than the Mitsu on shakedown...on 4km!! The organizers will not let him start before or not give him 2 minutes or more. The rally is destroyed before start. He will be in the dust all friday.

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They have already a 2min gap

http://uk.rallydeportugal.pt/content...0&eid=528&bl=1

Nevertheless it is a stupid decision to put N4 cars in front R5/RRC/S2000.

Florest fire near "Ponte de Lima" stage at this hour.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...type=1&theater

Tyres:

Paddon/Sordo 5 x Michelin LTX Force H4, Neuville/Citroen 3 x S and 2 x H, Latvala/Mikkelsen 5 x S, Tanak: 3 x H and 2 soft, Ogier/Evans 4 Soft +1 Hard

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Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC

I thought it looked quite strange too. Not like a rally car. Maybe its just a visual effect..

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I think the whole car is quite different to the other R5s. Only time will tell but I find it hard to believe there would be anything fundamentally wrong with it after all that testing. Anyway, Pontus was the fastest R5 on shakedown but we'll see what the rally proper will bring.

Let´s hope all rallyfans behave and not hinders the stages. And causing severe accidents. (I´ve been looking at the preview on WRC.com.