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what facts actually lead you to believe that he has the speed ??? the fact that he beats his brother, rautenbach and al quassimy??? or the fact that he loses stages by a 18year old in his first season in a WRC car ???Quote:
Originally Posted by Rallyper
2 3rd places, 2 4th places and a 6th place, out of 7 starts, in a 5 year old car, is pretty good, even in today's crappy WRC.Quote:
Originally Posted by N.O.T
N.O.TQuote:
Originally Posted by N.O.T
You live up to your name...
I am talking about speed... the place you finish has nothing to do with speed for places below the 2nd most of the times.....are you for real guys ??
What a ridiculous arguement N.O.T. How long have you been following rallying for? It is clearly not all about ultimate speed. There is a finite limit to the speed you can get out of any particular car, and it doesn't matter how good a driver you are, once you reach that limit, you can't go any faster. Petter has reached that limit in his ancient Xsara and the speed is clearly not in the car to allow him to compete with the C4 and Focus.
What you should be looking at us commitment. Watch any Solberg onboard and you will see that he is absolutely on the edge 100% of the time. He pushes his car more and takes more risks than any other driver. His skill and speed is still very obviously there.
Give him equal equipment and he will win again, no question. t
Pitty we have no acces to Virtual Spectator Information...
Have you lost memory of some WRC years (were there was actually a competition) ? ... did you forget 2003 and 2004 when Petter was clearly at Loeb level (actually faster on gravel) ? He is 2003 champion, and IMHO he hasn't lost it.Quote:
Originally Posted by N.O.T
The same was said about Bosse when Pug gave him the 307 ("it's not me, it's the car") and back to Ford he was up to level again.
Bosse won rallys in the 307....Solberg was slower than his teammate at subaru last year.....no mater the car Solberg cannot beat Loeb Hirvonen and latvala (when he is on the road).....
The North Will Rise Again? So will Petter.
Bosse won only 3 rallies with the 307 (Finland in 2004/2005 - and Japan 2005 when Petter crashed into the RFM big stone LOL ! ^^) but he couldn't fight for the championship anymore.Quote:
Originally Posted by N.O.T
We aren't saying that Petter will SURELY beat this or that, we just think that he can fight for top positions in a proper, competitive car.
In 2004 Petter was better than Hirvonen so if you say Atko was better than Petter seeing last year then we can say this too :P ?!
Come on... they are all great drivers, in this topic there's no point to say he's better or not compared to this or that, we only hope to see many competitive cars for many people as possible, to have some competition ... you know what is it, right ? (oh no you don't know, you only want Loeb to win so why bother to know something like that...).
Anyway it's more than obvious that for you only Loeb exists and all the others are 'scared dogs' (or 'tomato can', was Bosse's case I still remember...), I don't even explain myself why we still keep replying to your unidimensional post ^^