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I was on that stage and Delecour wasn't only one on studs but only one from top with all four with studs. Bouffier had D10 but I think only two with studs and he also had a massive spin in the other stage and that was time he lost to Delecour. Loix had four D10 without studs. Most of late runners had studs as they already knew what is going on when they were leaving service.
Weather looks to come extremely cold and most of the tire choices easy.. why, it will be really cold and snowy rally. Even the shakedown in Valence should be spectacular, because it is going to snow there as well :-) Only problem will be the tyre management.. they are allowed to use only 10 studded tyres and 20 snow tyres, rest of them are just soft..
Remember the event was mostly dry, Hanninen was about 50secs to a 1 min ahead; Solberg was his closest rival, and at the mid day service they watched each others tyre choices. Delecour was interviewed, and said he had a friend up in the hills; and that it was snowing. Delecour and Bouffier had the right tyres, either on the wheels, or as spares. Hanninen, Solberg & Kopecky went with dry tyres........Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
I seem to remember Maurin struggling first on the road on dry tyres, and Delecour under steering on the dry Tarmac early on the first of the afternoon's stages - before hitting the snow, and setting quick times. And to watch it all on LiveTV was awesome!!
I remember that too. I was in the first downhill after the tunnels where there is no GSM signal to inform anyone. It was snowing all the time before but not heavily. The road was rather clean till gravel crews stopped driving. Once there was no traffic it started to keep on the road. We had a big discussion with friends in time the top was leaving service what tyres would we recommend to the crews. Even being there we were only two of ten voting for studs. After half an hour (still a lot of time before start) everyone knew studs are the only option. Waiting for Juho was neverending and to see him sliding slowly downhill through the fog was painful...
Anyway there was one interesting thing. Juho had two winter tyres without studs if I remember (kopecký not). He put them cross, one to front axle, one to rear axle. It proved to be better with a car without center diff than to have both on same axle. Last year if I remember many driver did the same for stage Burzet including Loeb.
Interesting photo
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Name is Gardemeister.Quote:
Originally Posted by pantealex
Julian Porter @The_Rally_Guru
SS1/3 & SS2/4 are done, SS1/2 is wet, no snow. SS2/4 The first 9kms clear, the last 21kms is snow & slush.
Those were the days...Quote:
Originally Posted by AndyRAC
Why cant the WRC sort itself out and do what the IRC did ...
Νovikov at 2,16 lol