Whats with Neuville - soooooo slow.
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Whats with Neuville - soooooo slow.
Private Fiesta faster than brand new Polo, cmon Ogier..... :o
OGIER PLAYS DIRTY!
His Polo completes with snow in the front bumper. Has he been off? "No, we tried to make some cuts and put some snow on the road for the guys behind. We have a disadvantage with this road position, so now we try to turn this to our advantage."
Fri 11:29 - SS5: Ogier plays dirty!
His Polo completes with snow in the front bumper. Has he been off? "No, we tried to make some cuts and put some snow on the road for the guys behind. We have a disadvantage with this road position, so now we try to turn this to our advantage."
And photo from stage end
http://www.proza.ru/pics/2014/09/13/842.jpg
Does everyone have to post the same driver quotes?
Fri 11:35 - SS5: Ostberg
He completes 27sec slower than Kubica. "You have to be happy for every stage you get through here! Try to go straight and you end up going sideways. When you see spectators you know that's where you'll be going sideways!"
Loeb's opening split 4 sec slower as Kubica and Ogier
Really bad time by Evans, 47s behind Kubica
any more snow forecasted?
Tony Simpson @TonySimpson74 1m1 minute ago
Loeb , Ogier & Meeke visibly quicker towards the end of SS5, 6 cars through so far!
Does anyone have a link to picture of snow in Ogier's bumper
4 - Loeb Sébastien / Elena Daniel): It was ok. I tried to push hard again, but there was mud on the road like yesterday night. I pushed hard, I did a good stage.
flash info (6 - Tänak Ott / Mőlder Raigo): It was good stage for me, tricky as always. Another relaxing stage for us.
flash info (14 - Solberg Henning / Minor Ilka): It’s ok, I try my best, it was not easy. Very difficult, I have to learn to drive with these stud tyres on tarmac.
(17 - Protasov Yuriy / Cherepin Pavlo): stopped in stage, changing puncture
flash info (8 - Sordo Dani / Martí Marc): Not bad. I thought my time was better. Everything with the car was ok.
flash info (21 - Prokop Martin / Tománek Jan): Quite ok, I drive very carefully, maybe I can go faster in some places, but clean stage for me.
flash info (5 - Evans Elfyn / Barritt Daniel): It was tricky, very good grip in some places and not in others. Some of the cars are cutting in front, so it was quite messy.
flash info (3 - Meeke Kris / Nagle Paul): I had a better rhythm. Still very tricky, a lot of mud being pulled out. On some blind corners there is some mud on the exit so very tricky. It is dry tarmac so it is difficult for the studs.
flash info (7 - Neuville Thierry / Gilsoul Nicolas): Grip was better but it still tricky and it has changed a lot compare to the recces. But it was ok.
flash info (12 - Řstberg Mads / Andersson Jonas): Difficult. Quite ok, the speed is not good enough, maybe not perfect on the tyres, tried to save a little bit as there was quite a lot of tarmac, but I have no more studs.
flash info (9 - Mikkelsen Andreas / Flřene Ola): Not very good stage, the rhythm was terrible. We try to save some studs for the next stage.
flash info (2 - Latvala Jari-Matti / Anttila Miikka): A lot better than the first one, I did not have good feeling in the first one, I did not feel comfortable so I drove it very carefully.
flash info (1 - Ogier Sébastien / Ingrassia Julien): It was difficult, as I did not manage to keep the studs, it was very slippery.
flash info (16 - Kubica Robert / Szczepaniak Maciej): Everything ok, very slippery, very difficult conditions.
INFORMATION ABOUT SS 5
flash info (7 - Neuville Thierry / Gilsoul Nicolas): Definitely worse, it is getting horrible towards the end of the stage. Sometimes the spectators are putting snow on the road, so I took it really steady.
flash info (12 - Řstberg Mads / Andersson Jonas): You have to be happy for every stage you get through… You try to go straight but you end up going sideways. When you see a lot of spectators, you know it is going to be sideways so you can prepare for it.
flash info (9 - Mikkelsen Andreas / Flřene Ola): I am not so sure about the last stage, we should have gone with snow tyres without studs. We continue like this.
flash info (2 - Latvala Jari-Matti / Anttila Miikka): It was messy, I had to take it carefully, very messy in some places. In some places the snow had come into the road. I had a quite smooth run and concentrating on my tactics.
flash info (1 - Ogier Sébastien / Ingrassia Julien): We tried to make some cuts and put some snow on the road for the cars behind, we try to make an advantage. I did some small mistake but not so bad.
flash info (16 - Kubica Robert / Szczepaniak Maciej): It was ok, it is very difficult condition, but you have to get use to it. We lost all the studs in the second stage so where ever there was ice and snow it was difficult.
flash info (18 - Chardonnet Sébastien / De La Haye Thibault): I needed more confidence to go fast in these conditions. It's getting better now and should improve more in the afternoon.
Fri 11:38 - SS5: Neuville
"The road conditions are definitely getting worse, especially near the end. Sometimes the spectators are throwing snow on the road, sometimes it's the cars in front. Our gravel notes are often wrong as a result."
The car was badly damaged so, perhaps not possible to repair it.
http://www.autosport.pt/iv/1/220/39/...etbi8-2810.jpg
Bouffier could have been in contention for the win if he didn't crash.
Looks like SEB1 might loose a lot of time on this one, due to really detoriating conditions on the road
Fri 11:40 - SS5: Meeke
"Good notes from our safety crew, even though spectators are throwing more snow on here and there. Conditions are very changeable - there are stretches of bone dry asphalt in there."
are there any forcasts of snow?
Loeb +10.0 on Ogier ...
Loeb had a moment, or what is been said on WRR?
Ott loses 39s
Elfyn Evans after touching a bank: 'Didn't have a lot of studs left - might explain why it felt good but the time wasn't necessarily what we were looking for..'
Loeb will loose half of his lead, at least half that is...
Loeb +22 in stage. Just 3s lead from Ogier overall
Drivers comments are pretty useless anyway. They just finished a tough stage, haven't removed their helmets yet, and what could come to their minds so quickly? Just schoolgirls blabber 9 of 10 times. The snow, the tyres.... let them create a resumee in the service park would be better.
His lead only 3 seconds now