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I agree. The car takes a large amount of the blame and the rest is Petter making mistakes overcompensating for the car's inabilities. I believe if he were driving the Focus or C4 he'd be more consistent and give Marcus some competition for second place.
No one wins a championship by not being good at least. 2nd place is still pretty darn good. I agree that Loeb should have won it but Petter still won and even if he'd finished 2nd it still means he's a good driver. Not the best in my opinion but still a good driver.Quote:
Originally Posted by White Sauron
he is the only thing why i still watch wrc because his personality! When impreza will be better he is the only guy who can help gronholm to put much pressure to loeb and pass him. It is normal that he has so many spins,... because his car is not competiteve at all and he makes mistakes because he is driving 200% all the time.
I can't really judge how Petter is doing now because his car is clearly inferior to Citroen and Ford. However Petter still has that willingness to give everything to win a rally even if his car has almost no chance of wining, and I think he'll be fast if the car is as good as Petter. Petter is not the best but among the top drivers today.
And IMO Petter should have won 2004 title but not 2003. In 2003, Loeb's off in Corsica cost him title, but in 2004 Impreza-Pirelli was the fastest. But it's already in history anyways.....
His performance in Corsica after writing his car off in the shakedown would prove otherwise i'd say; but thats just me.Quote:
Originally Posted by White Sauron
Sure someone like Loeb appears to be the more complete package but Solberg does still have talent - and was a deserving WC. Would love to see whether Loeb would stick around with Citroen if they were in Subaru's position. True talent is rated when the going isn't good but the team and everyone is down. The way that Gronholm pulled the wins in Finland with the 307 to me cemented just how talented he really was; no bulletproof 206 around him but an underperforming car that he drove to the limit on stages he knew.
As said earlier this has happened before to ppl and will happen again - think Gronholm in 03 but he stuck it out and look where he is now
Quite rare people think that Petter's 2003 Impreza was the best car in the championships. Also if we count that he was driving with Pirellis and loosing many asphalt points it's clear that his championship was well deserved.
In my view Petter's best show has been the year 2004. In that year Petter was fastest in most of gravel rallies. Just Subaru's poor reliability prevented him take more than five wins. That very impressive because Petter dominated with the car which had inferior engine. There is no way to see that he was weaker than Grönholm and Loeb in terms of gravel speed. Quite contrary if it's supposed that Xsara and 307 didn't have any serious shortcomings (though many would maintain that 307 had those shortcomings). Being dominating with clearly inferior engine requires that both tyres and driver were perfect.
But thanks to Pirelli he won Corsica and came back to points in Catalunya on day3, if I remember well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Finni
The WRC Cars are not suited to his style of driving nowadays. He is a very fast driver but he will end up like Mcrae out of a drive soon because of their driving styles IMO
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Originally Posted by White Sauron
Also, wasn't it 2003 Turkey where Daniel Elena got his road-book wrong and they ran out of fuel? If they'd finished with just a few points from that Solberg wouldn't have been champion and Loeb would have 4 championships under his belt...
Just to read this 2003 stuff is even more interesting than following a 2007 event :D