Rally Argentina

Sordo is going to lose a place

And did, too.

Sordo is still learning according to Citroen. So don't expect anything from him.

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Originally Posted by ste898

If any team threw as much money at WRC as Citroen they would be as good...........its about time the FIA got its finger out of its arse and capped the budgets in line with Subaru and Ford!!!!! Then Citroen be **** on!!

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there are plenty of 1 make series out there if you want to watch 'fair' rallying, and even with matching pockets Citroen would have Loeb, that still wouldnt be fair on the other teams ;-)

What a crap talking always about money.. Loeb is the best driver out there, think it will be the same when he drove for Subaru or Ford. The difference between the top drivers and cars are small but still clear enough. When Makinen won 4 titles it was not with the team with the most money, far from that! Even last year Loeb was the best with a 2005 spec. car against the 2006 Ford's..
I really hope Loeb will have some little bad luck because it's a bit boring these days...

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Originally Posted by WRC2006

I am afraid then why when Loeb fail to set up a good time in any stage, he starts mourning for the tires choice? Does that mean the tires may have almost 50% in total result of any driver?

In all interview with drivers, tire choice is a topic and when they talk about the characteristic of any rally they refer as well to tires choice, etc. Do you think really tires choice is a decisive factor in rally?

What I know is that in F1, the tire is the master factor!!

Michelin and Citroen have a strong relationship since 5 or more years ago. More again, Michelin and Citroen are purely FRENCH. In 2005, Citroen was the only top team running with Michelin while Peugeot did a stupid mistake swicthing on Pirelli. This gave an advantage of Loeb to dominate the WRC in that time.

Maybe we can compare Marcus and Loeb on Michelin but not with Petter because this is his first year on Michelin and he still learning about Michelin.

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BFGoodrich / Citroen could have a kind of relationship as Renault had with Michelin in F1. This year we see the Renault value with Bridgestone... maybe next year we see the value of Citroen with Pirelli. But in 2008 maybe PSA would decide to reduce the investmente in motorpsort and then the lack of money will be the reason for less perfomance :D

French conspiration theory :D

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Originally Posted by WRC2006

Sordo is still learning according to Citroen. So don't expect anything from him.

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Talking about the money, Guy Frenquelin sad that the original program to Sordo in 2007 was drive a Xsara like he did last year to learn, and engage an experient driver to be a number2 C4 to win the constructor title! But, Frenquelin sad, they had no money to do that...! So, Sordo has to keep learning as well gaining points...he sad Sordo has to learn faster!
Ford for example, has 2 Stobard Fords, wich at least Latvala is learning and being more competitive.
So, why do you say that Citroën has more money than the others teams? Where are the links/sources to suport that?
All i know is that Citroën has around half of the money they had in 2005.

Loeb once again......Nice fight between SOlberg and Gronholm...Sordo off the p[ace

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Originally Posted by JAM

BFGoodrich / Citroen could have a kind of relationship as Renault had with Michelin in F1. This year we see the Renault value with Bridgestone... maybe next year we see the value of Citroen with Pirelli. But in 2008 maybe PSA would decide to reduce the investmente in motorpsort and then the lack of money will be the reason for less perfomance :D

French conspiration theory :D

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Talking about F1...Toyota has, by far, more money to send in F1 and get results...and after a few years there "learning", not even a single race they won.

Yep Loeb out in front again......once it gets to the usual 40+ seconds I switch off and dont bother looking again