[WRC] Rally Sweden 2025

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Originally Posted by AndersX

I told you all that McErlean has a potential. There were signs in his earlier outings on fast lose surface.

Sesks - i would think he takes it steady, with very little seat and PET time, after messing up Chile, he can not have another DNF (day). Slight off in the first corner last night was also a warning. In his interviews he says that he would take it gradualy. I think more realistic times should be expeced tomorrow. Seat time matters here.

Formaux - seems that Hyundai has pulled the right loto, finally. This will be an interesting season.

Kalles struggles: as prognozed, lack of the overall focus. Top level sports gods do not excuse it. At this level smallest distraction is a deviation.

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You’re right, I am probably being too harsh on Sesks, he does need some seat time, so let’s see how he goes tomorrow and Sunday.
McErlean I haven’t really seen enough of to know, he seems to have a quite nice way of driving the car, I hope he can be fast with more experience.
Fourmaux doesn’t surprise me, I could see from early on he was good, just needed to get rid of the makes, which he seems to have done.
Kalle, yeah maybe he is distracted….hopefully he sorts everything out and we get the usual guy back soon!

I think Kalle has big pressure. He just gonna go and grab the WDC, everone thought.
I admit I had Kalle 1st in Pickems, but it seems harder than expected.
Let´s wait and see.
Fourmaux is the star.
Evans doing the job.

Kalle is a surprise tho, but If he is able to stay in touch with the lead, he can benefit from his starting position tomorrow and catch it back.. And Fourmaux.. He is a real championship contender bmo !

We will see how it will be with Kalle. There are different factors - one year break (but not full), new tyres, big pressure. But I think there is also one more factor - I am saying it from beginning, but I think he was the best driver in WRC who has adapted well to the hybrid system and was able to use its advantage. And now without hybrid...

Or maybe he had a far superior car with his only real competitor being Evans, who struggeled with the hybrid.

The season is still long. We'll see how it ends.

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Originally Posted by EstWRC

Interesting that Thierry said there was a Marshall who was waving and him and Ott both lost massively in the end there

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Originally Posted by EstWRC

The others after them don’t loose as much. This will be interesting case now

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Any news or driver comments about getting time back ? They can look at the onboards and see the marshall.

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Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC

Any news or driver comments about getting time back ? They can look at the onboards and see the marshall.

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Seems not but like I said, they both lost 3 seconds there. Tänak was down 2.9 in last split and then suddenly 6.2 at the finish. Same with Thierry

Even Josh didn’t loose as much

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Originally Posted by doubled1978

Some surprises, McErlean was better than I expected, Munster and Sesks worse than I expected.

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Sesks is talented driver deserving rally1 seat but results in Poland & Latvia lead to people having quite big expectations on him that would be hard to met this year. Not only those rallies were most suited for him from "fast gravel specialization" perspective but also his WRC rivals not competed on those roads for years while he was in ERC.

McErlean from other hand is underestimated, due to sponsors allowing him to jump over drivers like Solberg or Gryazin in rally1 seat queue.

While I rate Sesks higher, I don't expect them to be too far from each other.

Tänak saying that he hoped more from the morning and basically he can’t get the tyre and setup work together at the moment, they must find something for tomorrow morning.

Says the spikes are good on Hankook but the pattern isn’t the best, especially when it’s snowy it doesn’t was the snow away.

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Originally Posted by PLuto

I think he was the best driver in WRC who has adapted well to the hybrid system and was able to use its advantage. And now without hybrid...

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I hope that's the case, I like him but risk of decade of his Loeb-like dominance scares me. If lack of hybrid doesn't suit him, then it will make WRC more exciting.