[ERC] Rally Liepāja-Ventspils

What is it with Elvis, he is so far off the R2 lead, or is the Fabia overtaken by development from the other brands?

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Originally Posted by Kalm

Rainer Aus, it was just posted in FB by his co-driver Simo Koskinen, its seems that Janis Vorobjovs has the same problem... they are running in Lativan Championship, so they are starting behind ERC crews , its seems that the road must be pretty bad by then to have this effect, or just defected tyres...

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yea.

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Originally Posted by Adler

I don´t understand Delecour´s gearbox issue, they had 45 min service after SS3!?

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I guess you cannot change to longer ratio gearbox if you don't have one ;)

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Originally Posted by Sulland

What is it with Elvis, he is so far off the R2 lead, or is the Fabia overtaken by development from the other brands?

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I'm wondering the same, what the hell is wrong with Chentre??? Few weeks ago he even achived some fastest times in the 2WD class, but now he is way of the pace.... Maybe that Fabia is not the fastest car in R2 group, but under this conditions this is IMHO not so important. It is yust a matter how much the driver dares to push in this conditions.....

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Originally Posted by Kalm

Rainer Aus, it was just posted in FB by his co-driver Simo Koskinen, its seems that Janis Vorobjovs has the same problem... they are running in Lativan Championship, so they are starting behind ERC crews , its seems that the road must be pretty bad by then to have this effect, or just defected tyres...

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No, I think this was caused by the serious over-heating in the tyre and this is not the 1st time I see this kind of tyres...
Actually I think that road is more or less gravel and it gets temps so high in tyre and all addhesives start to ´boil´ and studs and even the rubber tears off... In the first km´s they got much more grip than front runners but after few km´s they start to loose grip / tyres quickly. And in that photo there is a tyre from the 2011 (it´s BF) and back the they lasted even shorter period of gravel.

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Originally Posted by Ucci

I'm wondering the same, what the hell is wrong with Chentre??? Few weeks ago he even achived some fastest times in the 2WD class, but now he is way of the pace.... Maybe that Fabia is not the fastest car in R2 group, but under this conditions this is IMHO not so important. It is yust a matter how much the driver dares to push in this conditions.....

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Tarmac vs. Gravel. I think that they got bad set-up and it makes lack of confidence. After that you loose a lot in the roads like that...

Aus and Vorobjovs both retired

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Originally Posted by pucky54

I guess you cannot change to longer ratio gearbox if you don't have one ;)

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you might be right, but full ERC programme without spare gearbox sounds even more strange to me.

Does anybody know why Delecour left Kronos for Munaretto? Or is this just a one time deal?

As I heard, he was not allowed to change gearbox (after shakedown). Munaretto car because Van Dalen has sold too many of his cars and there wasnt any availablefor him for Latvia.