If he loses a second per km for that choice he is still leading for the final leg and on the best tyres - The 4-6 battle is the really interesting feature for tonight and tomorrow. Can Meeke step it up?
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Ogier on softs the others on supersofts for the last one...
only driver mistakes or changing conditions now can alter things the driving is over.
Great onboard of Evans and Barratt PURE SOUND... give us this option please WRC+ !
Times and live stream in sync now... so it is possible !
Breen tries to mess up the stage for the ones behind... lol...
If meeke doesn't up his pace soon, he's gonna lose his 4th place
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Yes Lappi! What a guy. Also, second stage on which Latvala has beaten Tanak so far. Impressive from Tanak.
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I also prefer the old split time system... changing the order in the table is annoying.
Ogier going to have a 30s+ lead... just enough I think.
33.5s.
Could be a nice battle tomorrow for 4-5-6 and Neuville waiting for any mistakes.
i do not think anyone is going to risk anything on monte tomorrow...
overall an ok event.. Neuville not as dominant as last year but with more points in the end it seems. Ogier nothing special speedwise and tanak the new force to be reckoned with.
Too many mistakes to judge the speed of cars and drivers from this event.
I agree Ogier absolute controlling this race.
Ogier didnt seem to be satisfied with the new estonian meteo guy :p
About Meeke..6/8/10 points are better than 0 (and another destroyed chassis...).Seems like Kris is trying to follow that plan...
It's probably last season for Kris aswell. And Citroen too if he don't bring some decent points home. So he better stay on road than on the side.
As the great Reggie Jackson once said
Fans don't boo nobodies.
And neuville is just that, if he failed to win the easiest title that was given to him last year through the efforts of hyundai i do not see how he can do it this year no that the others caught up... so why bother.
Great rally. Toyota boys in good position especially if they can hold current positions before going into Sweden where they should do well.
Tanak most impressive for me. Citroen and Hyundais also good, but I think a bit of bad luck and minor issues for these teams. As always, Monte leaves us scratching our heads.
Ogier knows this rally well. My contact at Toyota said they are all ecstatic about the team. Tommi told everyone it would be nearly impossible to beat Ogier in Monte, but he did not think Tanak would be so close. JML has changed a few setting which better suite him and he is now putting down good times. Lappi has surprised everyone. Apparently he did an extensive tarmac school in Italy before this rally along with a lot of carting to bring up his Tarmac skills.
Meeke as said earlier should make do with what he's got, I mean, I think he knows by now the car is still nowhere near it's competitors pace once it's not a proper dry road, so still a lot of work to be done on the C3. Also too me he seems like a broken man during the interviews, or a man that knows that it's Citroën's last season in the WRC.... As for Neuville, as N.O.T said before me, will be hard for Neuville to get the title this year. I do expect that Mikkelsen might be able to challenge if he continues to show the pace he showed end of last year and finishes rallies with out the issues. Bravo for Tanak and EP, don't think a lot of people expected that kind of pace from them right from the off.
The coverage is getting better bit by bit so that's good.
Tanak is impressive on his first rally with the new car. Meeke does seem upset about something, I got the feeling he blames the car for being slow.
Judging by Toyota's performance so far I'm betting on them winning the manu title. Arguably the strongest team, permanent drivers and a car that's as good as, if not better, than the Fiesta. M Sport is betting on temporary Suninen for car no. 3 and Hyundai's drivers are super unreliable. Citroen needs no explanation.
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Back to Mikkelsen alternator issue, anyone dare to speculate how a belt brakes and/or came off? Does anyone remember if such a thing happened before?
I think its pretty tough to judge too much by Monte Carlo, there is just too much random circumstance.
Anyone could have been off and out on the first night on that ice, really just good fortune who got away with the least time loss.
Its clear the Ford is still pretty benign, so too the Hyundai and Toyota. The Citroen still looks a right handful when the traction is low. So far Meeke has been smart and we didn't say that much last year.
Loosely tightened or faulty.
Belts break either from wear... which isn't the case in the WRC because I bet they swap them every event... or misalignment between the pulleys which increase the wear exponentially.
I don't know how things are mounted in the hyundai and what adjustment they have so don't know the root cause if it was indeed the belt.
They weigh nothing so I'm surprised they don't have a spare in the car.