Wrc Argentina 2016

latvala just took a cut where he shouldn't have cut, thats why his strut broke and those of other drivers didn't.
on the heli-view you can see that he's driving next to the regular line.

There is a decent bump and bang as Paddon drives over the same piece of exposed rock on the line, but no damage. I watched Mikkelsen's onboard and didn't see it at all, it might not have been exposed until after a few cars had been through (or maybe I blinked at the wrong moment). One of the advantages of running first on the road for Ogier, smoother roads with less exposed rock to damage his car and tyres.

It could be that the top mount was already damaged from an earlier impact as Mirek suggests, or there could have just been an weakness in that part of the car which was revealed by that particular impact. We've seen similar top mount failures from the VWs on rough rallies before haven't we, Mikkelsen last year?

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Originally Posted by GravelBen

I watched Mikkelsen's onboard and didn't see it at all, it might not have been exposed until after a few cars had been through (or maybe I blinked at the wrong moment). One of the advantages of running first on the road for Ogier, smoother roads with less exposed rock to damage his car and tyres.
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Yes, but this was the second run so it should have been exposed from the previous morning passage.

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Originally Posted by dimviii

from what can see till now,i cant imagine how this drove the strut through the bonnet.
Maybe a previous hard impact?

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Here it is just a moment later:
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Ostberg has some engineissues for whole rally that does he hasn't maximum power. He also got "teamorder" that not to talk about it in the intervjues, that explain his weird statements at the stageendintervjus.
He is not next WDC, but not this slow eighter.

Thierry Neuville ‏@thierryneuville

Last day of @rallyargentina ! Service is done and we are going now to SS16 "El Condor". The aim is the 6th position!

so, are wo going to see some drama today or not? i hope not. If Ogier takes 10 secs out of Paddon with first stage (which i doubt is impossible) then everything is open.

Any link for power stage?

MICHELIN Motorsport ‏@michelin_sport

#tyre info: All Michelin #WRC drivers with 5 LTX Force Soft except Latvala and Camilli with 6 S #wrc #RallyArgentina

What is the weather out there in the stages?