[WRC] News & rumours (part II)

Whoops, my mistake. Nothing unusual happened on SS4, I read the time wrong.

PG went off after one of rear wheels locked up in 140km/h. They rolled and then could continue but with brake failure.
After that they retired. Pity, but what can you do with a car letting you down...?
I think PG again showed his speed. :)

Yeah, once again PG showed that he has troubles to keep his car on the road for the whole rally distance.

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Originally Posted by bluuford

Yeah, once again PG showed that he has troubles to keep his car on the road for the whole rally distance.

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I´m sure you have some fresh examples or do you just insinuate he´s a bad driver? :confused:

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Originally Posted by Rallyper

I think PG again showed his speed. :)

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Yes, a little slower than Nikara :)

Yeah, Rally Jordan for example. And good example is that last time I said it it was about Meeke after Monte in 2009 and after that he went on to win the championship. So, hopefully it works the same for PG :-) It is something like reverse psychology ;-)

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Originally Posted by bluuford

Yeah, Rally Jordan for example. And good example is that last time I said it it was about Meeke after Monte in 2009 and after that he went on to win the championship. So, hopefully it works the same for PG :-) It is something like reverse psychology ;-)

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OK, you´re not mean.
But in Jordan it was blocks on the road that caused the trouble. Not an off.
How many examples would you like to have when he´s consistent? Swedish championship last year in Evo 9? Rally Sweden 2010? Rally Norway 2009?

I think until we know for sure this time it´s not so clever to insinuate anything for such a fast driver as PG appearently is.

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Originally Posted by serial jeff

Day 1 of the Malaysian Rally (in which Atko is participating) is complete. It did not go well for him. Something especially bad happened on the SS1 and SS4 and he lost a lot of time, but I don't know what the reason was. Other than that he only won one stage and ended the day 20 minutes behind the leader, his teammate Alister McRae.

I'm surprised he and Alister aren't miles ahead of everyone, since they're the only ones in S2000 cars- the rest seem to be in Group N. Are the Proton S2000s just not as good as the skoda/fiesta?

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The Proton is not as fast as the top S2000 cars but it's not bad (much better than the MSD Opel Corsa for example)

I heard this rally is quite tight and twisty so does not play to the S2000s strengths.

I'm pleasantly surprised by McRae's performace though, I guess it will take Atkinson some time to get used to the car.

Atkinson is already on same level as McRae when you watch the stage times

Indeed, it appears that excluding SS1 Atko was only a few seconds behind McRae... pretty good for being new to the car.

Are S2000s better on faster rallies? I thought it would be the opposite, since I was under the impression that group N cars had significantly more power.