He will. In GB.Quote:
Originally Posted by Doon
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He will. In GB.Quote:
Originally Posted by Doon
Of course not :) I just forget his previous experience from IRC and Belgium, stupid me!Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
Kubica deservs WRC car!. Why Khalid didnt give his citroen to kubica in spain....
Kubica wants to secure his WRC-2 title on tarmac, his stronger surface I guess that's why he's driving RRC in Spain and will be given a WRC in GB after the goal for this year is done!Quote:
Originally Posted by satukata
http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/8747/m5nz.pngQuote:
Originally Posted by jonkka
Is this the first time Kubica drives in the dark? His pace is impressive considering that darkness requires to rely much more on pacenotes
I don't know but all Fords are slow, not only Thierry. All also complaining about setup/understeering.Quote:
Originally Posted by jonkka
I guess he did some night stages with Clio S1600 in Italy and maybe in Antibes before his accident but for this season You are probably right. I only recall the heavy fog in Acores which is not exactly same thing but he was struggling with pacenotes a lot there (also because there was heavy fog also during the recce).Quote:
Originally Posted by makinen_fan
And next year also :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Rallyper
Robert has experience with night stages.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
because WRC2 level of competition is a bad joke.Quote:
Originally Posted by Doon
Few stages of Mille Miglia and Antibes or two kilometers of qualification stage in Monte Carlo. All before his accident...Quote:
Originally Posted by PLuto
I know it's only the second stage but, errrr...... Mads?
Lemes take a small difference at ss2 from Suarez and Tidemand
Spectacles and lenses distort the night vision, hence the result.
Neuville is not an exception obviously.
Simple!
These first two stages were not used last years, so others have more experience on these stages. That is another reason.
[SS2] Sepp Wiegand (Skoda) 13:37.8 "Robert (Kubica) was really fast, every stage we catch Nicolas Fuchs, he is really slow, but he lets us past, that is really nice, thank you Nicolas."
Watch closely Neuville's night stage results in all future night events!Quote:
Originally Posted by bluuford
Last(and shorter)stage of the evening/night running ;)
Very true. Elfyn Evans hasn't much WRC experience, and very little 4wd experience, and even he is much quicker than the 'others', the gentlemen and wannabies.Quote:
Originally Posted by NxOxT
SS3] Dani Sordo (Citroen) 10:41.9 - Has lost time to position himself on the road tomorrow behind Jari-Matti Latvala - "I want to be at the back of Jari-Matti."
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So Mads does have only the long gear ratio available? How about Novikov then?
1-2-3 for VW on SS3 :eek:
I wonder how that helps him :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by dimviii
What has happen to Mikko this year? Maybe he feels lost without Loeb. Think he needs a move, back to M-Sport to brighten his spirits.
Splits...Quote:
Originally Posted by stefanvv
when he was not slow on tarmac?Quote:
Originally Posted by Doon
when he is back of Latvala he can react faster at Latvala splits.If he is in front of him he reacts late.Quote:
Originally Posted by stefanvv
Probably he understands that position No1 is out of his target.
You're right, I think, that Paddon will get faster, but keep in mind that the NZer way (and especially Paddon's way) is to understate anything positive - he can be winning a NZ national rally by minutes and do a post stage interview saying "we're really struggling with the setup, nothing feels right" etc. etc. Sometimes in NZ he was doing half a day or more of a rally avoiding learning his own times - while leading! So he'd do these really negative interviews while trouncing every other driver because he didn't know how far ahead he was, or even that he was in the lead.Quote:
Originally Posted by stefanvv
So even if he's talking about setup and so on I certainly hope he is happy or satisfied with understeer and setup tweaking as opposed to minutes off the pace, crashing out, etc. that many first timer WRC drivers run into. He's one of a couple drivers I feel are now more deserving of a chance to face Ogier's dominance next year than most of the current regulars. Keep in mind Ogier spent much of his first WRC outing in 8th place before crashing out...
Well his first podium was on tarmac, in Spain, in a 2 year old car so he can't be all bad. Just saying he had 'fighting sprit' in 2005, and generally in the Ford, but he seems to have given up with the Citroen.Quote:
Originally Posted by SlowSon
where is Not when you need him? :laugh:
we have 2013....Quote:
Originally Posted by Doon
very few drivers can stay at top for so long.Mikko is not one of them. ;)
I see you are trying to make me look like an unknowledgeable idiot. Please post Mikko's final championship standings from the last 8 years......;)
It's sad how people look at drivers and judge them on their results in such a short period. For 6 years he was the only hope of a challenge to Loeb, and if the god of rallying was never discovered, Mikko would have been a 4 time WRC champion
Loeb broke Mikko in 2009... he broke his spirit and changed him during rally GB...from then on he is a lost soul...
I hope he can get his mojo back. I remember 2011 he could have had it. Silly mistake cost him the championship.Quote:
Originally Posted by Doon
Happens to lots of people. Continually looking back at what might have been if they had not made bad choices. Needs to forgive himself and get on with it.
But I agree with others, M Sport would be a better option. The Citroen seems to be a Loeb car and nobody else can drive it.
Neuville did ok on the second pass through GALLURA in Sardenga in the dark.Quote:
Originally Posted by danon
Mind you Ogier would really have a spring in his step now and believe his is the greatest. Confidence in an arrogant personality like that is very hard to beat.
i am not trying mate to make you look like unknowledgeable idiot.Quote:
Originally Posted by Doon
Mikko last 2 years is not at the same level as when he was battling for championships.And 2 years is not a short period.
Mikko had similar disastrous season in 2010 when he was sixth in the championship (having been second two years before that and would be two years after that).Quote:
Originally Posted by Doon
He wants to be able to slow down at the end of the day so that he'll start to Day 3 behind the Volkswagens.Quote:
Originally Posted by stefanvv