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It's not very hard to see you are a big Tanak fan is it *points at the icon + country*, even without reading a single post of yours.Quote:
Originally Posted by EstWRC
Ruining the radiator when you are the only one out of top 5 that didn't lift or break on a jump is mistake.
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Originally Posted by EstWRC
Shut up please, and tell your guy to learn how to jump.
I take it maths isn’t your forté - Neuville wins Australia but no PS = 25 Ogier second with max PS = 23 so would be WDC by 1 point. Not only does Neuville have to finish ahead of Ogier he must have enough tyre left to outscore Ogier in the PS - lotsa luck with thatQuote:
Originally Posted by N.O.T
I agree. Both Neuville and Tanak are suffered by weakness of the car (fragile tarmac suspension in Hyundai and fragile under protection of Toyota)Quote:
Originally Posted by mknight
However, as a Tanak fan, Tanak is way faster this year (setting top 3 times on every rallies this year) than Neuville last year (failed to capitalize Ogier's retirement in Finland) and Neuville has a obvious driving error by crashing in Sweden's SSS and timing error by checking late on the stage in GB which costs him the title, while Tanak's error is mostly not his fault (Catalunya, Sardinia and GB are the more debatable one). I think Tanak deserves more than Neuville, but they are both unlucky
Let that stupid thread sleep please ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by René
its hard to imagine that the rally winner will not score any points in ps if he goes flat out... but anyway you are correct the PS will also play its part.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mintexmemory
what are your plans for today ? have the anti depressants kicked in yet after seeing THE GREATEST DRIVER OF ALL TIMES TAKING A HUGE SHIT IN THE CHAMPIONSHIP TROPHY THAT ONE OF THE USELESS DOGS WILL LIFT IN AUSTRALIA ?
Sorry, I can't resits...Quote:
Originally Posted by Ds3
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DXnP-vrW4AAxcoL.jpg
The FIA should change this rule by various guest pilots to start in such good positions (10). Let guests start 1.
Fantastic jokes @Ds3, keep going. Although the chances are small, I really hope to see Loeb again in more events next year. Would be funny if he returns full-time at Citroën to ridicule Ogier for a year.
How much does it hurt?Quote:
Originally Posted by Ds3
Great to see NOT so happy after a long time.
You see what you do to little kids Mr LOEB ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Ds3
Are you happy that you make little kids cry ?
YOU MONSTER !!!!
Actually it's 306 for M-Sport, but not much difference anyway, probably they won't take the title.Quote:
Originally Posted by macebig
oh look another doggy is out of its trashcan... must be hard for you today.Quote:
Originally Posted by stefanvv
A driver to commend from this rally is Evans for me. He was a little off the pace the last two days but he put in a good PS and finally got himself a podium. I don't see much hope for him next year but at least he's got a silver lining to hold onto.
Wow, what a championship and what an event.
RC1, RC2 and RC4 all with a tiny gap between them after 3+ hours of SSs.
Neuville looked absolutely gutted at the end, but honestly I think it's probably better to be a point behind than a point ahead with Australia next up.
No point in people arguing about which car is best at this or that and which driver is best; it's a team game and they're all combinations and no-one being the perfect combination is what has made this year thrilling. Title wise, this is the same feeling I had watching rallying in the 90s where the titles often came down to two or three drivers at the last round; can't wait for Australia.
Great drive by Evans too, these last two events make me think he should get another year if M Sport can afford him over a paying driver. If not, get him in that new R5 and go Skoda-hunting.
Really happy in my decision to go out to Spain to watch Loeb; originally thought it may be his last event but I'm sure now with no WRX drive he'll be thinking about it next year. Or give him some R5/ERC events to show off that car. Was a pleasure to watch and I was getting very misty-eyed on the edge of my seat watching the end there. For sure I hope he has some more rallying in him.
Shout out to some lower-order drivers who looked quick when I saw them on certain stages; Huttenen seems to have been quick on Friday in parts, Franceschi I've not heard of but looked really fast when I saw him, both Solans' especially Nils whose speed on Saturday was astounding, Camilli who was a great advert for the VW (anyone know why he retired? VW mechanics wouldn't tell me; the airbox was cracked but no other sign of damage) and of course to Rovanpera for willing on tarmac against Kopecky and by dominating his class relative to the winning margins in the other two!
Ramble over.
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Oh, and honourable mention to Fabio Andolfi, just because he drives like an absolute nutjob and he hit some piece of scenery every time he's passed me in Wales and Spain.
If he hadn’t played pick and choose perhaps I’d be more impressed - wasn’t exactly a return to the days of true dominance though, now was it?Quote:
Originally Posted by N.O.T
Consiprationist theories on DS3-Loeb and Ogier are beautiful. This forum never end to amaze me lol.
Neuville-Tanak parallelism is interesting but we have a lot of differences: Tanak didn't make Neuville's silly mistakes of last year but on the other hand it is true that Tanak has a part of fault on the problems he has had this year and it wasn't only mechanical issues and bad luck.
This happens when in every rally you go for a win. Cannot blame the drivers for that. Only last year in Sweden the mistake of Neuville was silly but otherwise they both have gone for it.Quote:
Originally Posted by AL14
https://www.facebook.com/29981574012...2069571707493/ Who thought Elena could do that! :D
Completely agree, but often settling for less than win gives more points at the end of the season. Ogier was superb at that last year, Neuville is getting good at it this year.
Other drivers do that too, except that they often forget to get out of their car before :)Quote:
Originally Posted by tommeke_B
What a fanatstic rally! Honestly it’s hard to understand all this talk about Loeb win making Ogier, or any other current WRC driver, look ridicule. Just like Meeke in 2016, Loeb run a few events without caring about the drivers championship and despite some mistakes (in Mexico and Corsica) was able to show a strong pace and get a win.
That’s certainly great for Loeb, Elena, Citroen and the WRC, but it’s even greater to have a WDC epic figth, wich only will be decided in the last rally (stage, hopefully) of the season, thanks to the effort and talent of 3 fantastic drivers: Ogier, Neuvllle and Tanak. Congrats to all of them and also to the amazing WRC rising star, Rovanpera.
yes it makes a difference being in your 30s and a full time rally driver than a semi retired 44 guy...Quote:
Originally Posted by Mintexmemory
no surprise you live in london... lol...
Not blaming but at the end who makes more points wins the championship and the less mistakes you make the more points you get, along with victories.Quote:
Originally Posted by cali
He made Malcolm's choice a bit harder. Question is if it's too late. His only good rally of the season. (Portugal is really hard to count when "everyone" had issues.Quote:
Originally Posted by steve.mandzij
A brilliant last-minute tyre choice made the difference for Loeb today. Not just a great driver but an inspired one.
Ogier did what he could with poor tyre choices all rally and made no mistakes in all the difficult rally conditions.
Yesterday Elena was streesed about the rally.Well captured at this video.
https://www.facebook.com/DanielElena...3970209137223/
That he did it at all is still awfully impressive. Not at all what I was expecting this time around.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mintexmemory
eWRC-results
New record for @SebastienLoeb - the biggest gap between the first and the last #WRC win. What a LEGEND @CitroenRacing
https://twitter.com/KiwiWRCfan/statu...34238810394624
what a guy! lol
https://twitter.com/DanosElena/statu...85943065522177
Video WRC Rally Catalunya 2018:
https://youtu.be/CF0KaHicy7o
Do we actually know what happened with Loeb on the last stage? He clearly had issues turning in on right turns.
Can't find any info at all and I had to cut the live feed and run as soon as the stage was complete.
"It was intense all weekend, we gave everything, I'm a little tired, we got closer to the head after a very difficult Friday, I was hoping to finish in front of Ogier to widen the gap. Final result is not so bad, we will not have to open the road in Australia It could be an advantage I was a little disappointed in the Power Stage because we were busy making a good result, but I realized that the scenario was not so bad, it would have been difficult to open in Australia with two points ahead.Thereafter, it is to finish the championship in beauty and to win the last round. in Australia, I took a lot of seconds and was second behind Ogier, and we hope that the scenario will be a little similar this year, "Neuville told the microphone of our colleague Olivier Gaspard, RTBF's special correspondent in Catalonia.
"Loeb did a demonstration this weekend, we drove very fast over the weekend, we were a little on the edge of the razor.It's the case for everyone, we must be able to dance on the wire. The loss of the head of the championship Oddly, it even gave me a smile I already thought of Australia, it is a rally with a sweeping important It is complicated without having a comfortable lead Fate has decided otherwise in view of our puncture at the end of the Power Stage.It will not open in Australia, it is not worse after all.I think we have a 60% chance to get the champion, 30% for Ogier and 10% for Tanak.In case of a tie, he is the first to win a rally: it would be Ogier because he won the Monte Carlo, so we have 4 points of delay, "added Nicolas Gilsoul, co-driver of our compatriot.
https://www.rtbf.be/sport/moteurs/ra...ie?id=10058821
I cannot see Neuville winning this championship to be honest... he is nothing. He threw away a 29 point lead... pfffttt he will probably retire trying to gain as much as he can on Ogier.
We`ve been through this and you are still claiming it. Did Neuville lift? But otherwise, well, yeah, bad luck or a mistake, when one had succeeded in it the previous five times and happened to have a hole dug by Neuville on the last one, not for us behind the computers to tell. jparker is ofc really smart :DQuote:
Originally Posted by mknight
ESTwrc, why all that drama, it`s just rally, just one season, plenty of chanches left for everyone next year...and the year after etc. Even this year, if you think about Moya/Sainz.
Great to see Loeb doing what he did, after a failed SS1 would never have guessed.
IMO Porter was exaggerating. There was some dirt on the road after some cuts from previous drivers and he seemed to understeer, that's all.Quote:
Originally Posted by itix
Nothing more than panic from the presenters indeed.