[WRC] News & rumours (part III)

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Originally Posted by dimviii

Gary Boyd ‏@KiwiWRCfan

Rally Trivia
@MadsOstberg has scored #WRC points on all 11 #WRC events he has started in 2015.
Mads has not used Rally 2 rules in 2015

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that's just jinxing it...and now we're comming to the last round in Wales...

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Originally Posted by thuGG

Seriously, he didn't crash in: Sweden, Portugal, Poland, France, Spain. Stop this BS that he crashes all the time everywhere.

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He kind of does... I see why people say he crashes a lot because he really does.

I have more than one time put my head in my palms and went "arrrggh Robert, again?".
Sometimes it is many times per rally as well.

I do get what AL14 says... But i still see potential in Robert.

Also coming from F1 he has defintely done a better job than Räikkönen who's efforts were quite frankly pathetic.

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Originally Posted by AL14

You mean he is not crashing two times per rally but only one now?

Don't want to sound arrogant, I respect what you say of course, but I think it's time to give up on Kubica. He can be fast, he can have not too much experience (but not too less neither, now) but it is clear he can't handle a whole rally. He had almost 25 starts and collects less points than Al Qassimi. How much time should we keep saying "he's fast, it's Pirelli, it's his hand, it's Ford, it's the team, he's unlucky" ignoring he just had a wrong approach to the sport?

My view remain the same: if he had spent these two years to learn, now he could have been in a very different position. Instead he wanted to fight at the top since his very first WRC rally, and this is the result.

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He drives better with one arm than some with two, that I am certain.

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Kubica's continuing to show a true passion over rallysport, and it's fair to say that this year he has improved a lot. He's a ultra competitive guy that only knows to drive at maximum attack mode, but it's very difficult to go flat out all the time when you're a privateer (even having a special treatment). It'd be great to see him getting a factory seat and a proper drive improving program (with the help of a former wrc champ), in order to put some consistency over his undisputed speed. It'll be a waste, for RK and for WRC, to see him in another non works attempt.

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Originally Posted by thuGG

Seriously, he didn't crash in: Sweden, Portugal, Poland, France, Spain. Stop this BS that he crashes all the time everywhere.

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Portugal he had an incident on SS4
Poland had an incident on SS5
Spain had an incident SS4, SS5, SS14 and SS20

Not counting in France were he got a puncture from a cut.

One rally he has been mistake free in Sweden, where even there he had a couple of spins.

So would you say he is unlucky for these 'incidents' where he went off, or hit something, or is he lucky that these incidents didn't cause permanent retirement?

I am a fan of Kubica, and we all acknowledge the skill Kubica has. No one is doubting him as a fast rally driver.

But these are the facts. You can check it if you want and prove me wrong.

Incidents are not crashes. Everybody has incidents, the less and smaller the better of course, but you only don't have incidents when you don't drive.
I checked Portugal and Poland and there was nothing in Poland on SS5.

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Originally Posted by Mariusz

Incidents are not crashes. Everybody has incidents, the less and smaller the better of course, but you only don't have incidents when you don't drive.
I checked Portugal and Poland and there was nothing in Poland on SS5.

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SS4 Portugal - "We have damage, we have a puncture. It's gone flat. We had a small off. No idea where it happened."
SS5 Poland - Yes I got that wrong, I meant SS12 - "A small off in one corner, onto the grass, that cost us a second."
The Poland one I would agree though, that wan't really much

But two rallies out the 2015 Season...

http://www.maxrally.com/2015/10/31/i...rsus-australia perhaps it's know already but for the time being it seems like we won't see Rally New-Zealand until at least 2018

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Originally Posted by leighton323

Portugal he had an incident on SS4
Poland had an incident on SS5
Spain had an incident SS4, SS5, SS14 and SS20

Not counting in France were he got a puncture from a cut.

One rally he has been mistake free in Sweden, where even there he had a couple of spins.

So would you say he is unlucky for these 'incidents' where he went off, or hit something, or is he lucky that these incidents didn't cause permanent retirement?

I am a fan of Kubica, and we all acknowledge the skill Kubica has. No one is doubting him as a fast rally driver.

But these are the facts. You can check it if you want and prove me wrong.

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I was talking about crashes, everyone has incidents.

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Originally Posted by thuGG

Seriously, he didn't crash in: Sweden, Portugal, Poland, France, Spain. Stop this BS that he crashes all the time everywhere.

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then why does he only has 8 points in 12 rally's?
perhaps he doesn't always bins it completely, but he makes serious mistakes everytime.

the only rally that can be called good for him, was poland. when he only lost 2 minutes to ogier.

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Originally Posted by itix

Also coming from F1 he has defintely done a better job than Räikkönen who's efforts were quite frankly pathetic.

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raikkonen did a lot better than kubica. he didn't win stages, but he managed to get results.
kubica had done 39 rally's before he shifted to a full wrc season, raikkonen had done 4.

raikkonen: 59 points in 21 wrc rally's
kubica: 22 points in 24 wrc rally's
http://www.ewrc-results.com/profile.php?p=6450&sct=1
http://www.ewrc-results.com/profile.php?p=8567&sct=1

yet kubica scored 18 points in 7 rally's in wrc2, so it seems he knows how to drive fast.