[WRC] Rally Chile 2023

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Originally Posted by CeskyOndra

On onboard you can see tree stump far in the grass. But on the video footage from outside it doesnt seems that he was that far in grass

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Rechecked, paused, rechecked, paused... I would say, he was.

Okey, but these mistakes are quite common for Beginners. Yes, Suninen is quite experienced right now, but for example, Evans was struggling 5-6 years in Rally1 until he started to be consistent

I feared this would happen with Suninen when he said "I have to drive faster" at the end of the previous stage...

I would give him more seat time, then he could be so good

Small margins... a centimetre or two in and he'd probably have been fine. A harsh punishment after a fine (and just 3rd drive) in the Rally1..

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Originally Posted by meh

driving to tree-stump is bad luck?

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Meeh... Maybe

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Originally Posted by Dontcut

Teemu ended his WRC career

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no he didn't. who else would have done better here?

it was his own stupid mistake, but it wasn't because he was pushing too hard. he either made a mistake with the notes or he didn't listen to them.

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Originally Posted by seb_sh

I feared this would happen with Suninen when he said "I have to drive faster" at the end of the previous stage...

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Based on past we all feared it coming and it came. It was not just the sentense at the end of previous stage. For me it's "Friday hero" side-effect - on Fridays he shows good stage-times from good road position and it may feel like "oh I can do it!". Then on Saturday and further comes reality from equal road position "shit, what happened, on Friday I was able to do it, so I need to improve" and then overdriving happens under pressure.

For me it was clear personal mistake and I'm not sure if it's better if he was pushing or not pushing...

You can imagine, what kind of cruising should take place if there could be no extra points for last stage.