Vodafone Rally de Portugal 2017 [May 18-21]

From SS4 they went to recce tonights superspecials...+ time for service, lunch, break and driving to the correct spot.

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Originally Posted by EstWRC

4 stages so far and on every stage we have had a different winner, Neuville, Paddon, Latvala, Tänak-Breen and Meeke

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Have to correct you, Mads and Neuville shared SS1:)
So Østberg, Neuville, Paddon, Tänak, Latvala, Breen and Meeke makes it seven winners in the first four stages. Is this a record Gary Boyd?

3 Hyundai's in 0.5s

Quick thoughts

- Breen very good start
- Ogier loosing very little, Latvala also very good
- all 3 Hyundais surprisingly slow (even without Paddons engine issue)
- DMACK tires not so epic here
- Lappi better than expected imo, and already ahead of Hanninen
- Lefevbre has now crashed in all 4 rallies with C3 and not a single time has he shown a good pace, honestly can't remember any manu. driver with consistently worse performance (Duval was at least fast and Hirvonen at Subaru didn't crash every rally)
- Mikkelsen 36s ahead after 4 stages, while Evans was about even with the same people in R5s whole last year, was expecting he'd have some competition here, but he clearly seems to be a level above

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Originally Posted by mknight

Quick thoughts

- Breen very good start
- Ogier loosing very little, Latvala also very good
- all 3 Hyundais surprisingly slow (even without Paddons engine issue)
- DMACK tires not so epic here
- Lappi better than expected imo, and already ahead of Hanninen
- Lefevbre has now crashed in all 4 rallies with C3 and not a single time has he shown a good pace, honestly can't remember any manu. driver with consistently worse performance (Duval was at least fast and Hirvonen at Subaru didn't crash every rally)
- Mikkelsen 36s ahead after 4 stages, while Evans was about even with the same people in R5s whole last year, was expecting he'd have some competition here, but he clearly seems to be a level above

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how long did you spend thinking to make those remarks ???

something tells me you are british...

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Originally Posted by mknight

Quick thoughts
- Ogier loosing very little, Latvala also very good
- all 3 Hyundais surprisingly slow (even without Paddons engine issue)
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Expected more of Hyundai too, let's see how Paddon goes this afternoon. Also agree that Ogier and JML are doing a stellar job so far.

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Originally Posted by Lundefaret

Have to correct you, Mads and Neuville shared SS1:)
So Østberg, Neuville, Paddon, Tänak, Latvala, Breen and Meeke makes it seven winners in the first four stages. Is this a record Gary Boyd?

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I do not know if 7 different stage winners within 4 stages is a record or not. It is certainly a very unusual situation and highly unlikely to have occurred peviously

Neuville was 20 seconds from 2nd latvala after he first loop in Argentina... but he is slow here... surprisingly slow...

is it painful to be like that in real life for you as well ??? because people around you are sure suffering...

#Tyre info: afternoon loop 1/2
Meeke: 3 Michelin LTX Force H4 +2 S5
Breen/Lefebvre: 4S+2H
Ogier/Tanak/Neuville/Paddon: 2H+3S

#Tyre info: afternoon loop 2/2
Sordo: 4 Michelin LTX Force S5 + 1H
Latvala/Hanninen: 5 S