Uhm not worse than the old one hehe. No, looks promising i think. Bit sceptical at first, but in the end i think they've mad the right desition to get it out this earlie.Quote:
Originally Posted by J.Lindstroem
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Uhm not worse than the old one hehe. No, looks promising i think. Bit sceptical at first, but in the end i think they've mad the right desition to get it out this earlie.Quote:
Originally Posted by J.Lindstroem
I think it feels good, off course it is hard to say after just one day but it seems like the car has no small gremlins everywhere like the old one. I just hope Petter could have this third place now. He really really deserve it, im sure that a place on the podium could pull up his confidence.Quote:
Originally Posted by SUBARUNORWAY1
I want the old Petter back now, it has been a while!
Got back an hour ago! Interesting first day. Surprisingly not good for Ford team though...
I was at ss1 Shimatari1 and ss4 Shimatari2. Latvala was the most spectacular.... specially in the morning stage. And Aava in the afternoon stage was very fast and very spectacular. Unfortunately was the only one that I didnt take pictures of him...! grrr!
Too much dust and too many rocks. Too much dust made it difficult for the spectators. Too many rocks made it difficult for the drivers specially the Ford drivers.
It was great to see Peter produce good stage times and I will not be surprised if tomorrow wins a couple of them. He was good old Hollywood in the Super special. 2 secs faster than Seb. And then Aava came to get the stage win!!! Ultra fast as well.
It was very unfortunate to see All 3 official Fords go slow. Hirvo , Latvala, Al Quasimy. Also Atko had damage at his front right suspension.
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Two days remaining for fighting. Seb will do the sweeping but I don't know how much flat out driving can be done on the bad stages from the Ford guys. We' ll see tomorrow. I certainly didn't expect the stages to be that bad. Maybe the organizers need to think seriously for next year going back to the traditional stages around Lamia area.
The first crews of PWRC were really good to watch and also Sandel with the amazing 207. Prokop in the morning was the fastest until the point we timed him. Aigner was very good and ofcours Ketomaa and Hanninen. But also I really liked Sousa. Very spectacular and fast driving. I don't know about his times but was really nice to watch him!
Tomorrow night the day 2 debrief! hehehe
900 photos in two days and counting....! If anyone has any preferred driver request send me a pm.
I think also it was the right choise to launch it now, but im not so confident that it will be a winner car.
At the end of one of the stages today, it sounded like Petter may have had a slightly soft brake pedal, but he wouldn't say anything....Quote:
Originally Posted by J.Lindstroem
They said they wouldn't bring it out till it was right, so doesn't that means it should be doing fastest times soon, and wins before the end of the year?
It looks like the development rate on this car should be alot faster than the old one.
Have they even started tarmac testing yet?
Well it hasn't proven to be rally winning material, but I would wait until Finland to make any conclusions. The positive thing so far is that Petter hasn't cryed yet :DQuote:
Originally Posted by J.Lindstroem
Someone was waiting analysis about Subaru, Here are the result for afternoon stages (Solberg).Quote:
Originally Posted by bluuford
SS4 0,86 s/km
SS5 0,76 s/km (Atko 0,55 s/km) Solberg probably had a problem on that one
SS6 0,53 s/km
SS7 0,52 s/km
Total: 0,54 s/km
Well, I think that the first win for the new car will be in next 5-6 events:-)
The competition is really intense between Ford and Citroen and cannot be compared to that when Ford introduced their new car and Citroen introduced their new car. I think the car is very good.. just needs to be fine tuned.
0,5 sec/km actually is very much to catch, especially when 0,5 sec is not the whole truth, the guys lost that much even they had quite optimal starting positions.Quote:
Originally Posted by bluuford
I don't know if people have got this yet (ignore if you have), but the starting order for tomorrow doesn't include the SSS - therefore the Fords do not have a great road position, while Petter and Henning have better positions. This is the start order as far as I know:
Loeb
Latvala
Sordo
Hirvonen
Petter
Henning
Aava
Atkinson
I expect Latvala to struggle 2nd on the road, although Mikko should get third quickly.
Aava and Henning should have a good battle with Petter for 4th.
lets hope Hennning can use his road positon then :)