So last night the gap between the two VW's was +2.6. Now it's +3.0. Very tight at the top.
All Meeke can do is manage the gap to Mads and hope for a mistake ahead of him.
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So last night the gap between the two VW's was +2.6. Now it's +3.0. Very tight at the top.
All Meeke can do is manage the gap to Mads and hope for a mistake ahead of him.
Jari-Matti and his co-driver are analyse the drive. "Before the stage Miikka told me to try and keep it inside the corners, but I felt I was too sideways."
See? Today Jari-Matti is more nose end first and doesn't want to drive sideways like he did in Poland. ;)
SP interviews coming up: http://www.wrc.com/live-ticker/live_popup_stream.html
Latvala making use of one of the 1000 lakes...
https://farm1.staticflickr.com/313/1...923bbe01_c.jpg
Drunk Finn sleeps while Latvala's passing at Ouninpohja.. and he doesn't wake up to trumpets either... :D
https://youtu.be/cu6TcDcKW1c
Few more of Paddon yesterday:
http://maurihelle.kuvat.fi/kuvat/Mot...pg?img=smaller
http://maurihelle.kuvat.fi/kuvat/Mot...pg?img=smaller
http://maurihelle.kuvat.fi/kuvat/Mot...pg?img=smaller
http://maurihelle.kuvat.fi/kuvat/Mot...pg?img=smaller
http://maurihelle.kuvat.fi/kuvat/Mot...pg?img=smaller
http://maurihelle.kuvat.fi/kuvat/Mot...pg?img=smaller
Full set: http://maurihelle.kuvat.fi/kuvat/Motorsport/NORF+2015/
Video of the above Ogier jump
https://www.facebook.com/GRallynews/...4021725412905/
Yes off course... His lack of pace has nothing at all to do with driving, its all about diffs, tyres, dampers, chassis, etc etc.
And the reason the inexperienced Paddon is so much faster is that he did not attend the team meeting where Neuville told Hyundai how slow their WRC car is, and all the team nodded in agreement, so Paddon is unaware of how slow the car is.
As soon as Paddon gets this memo, he will find his place and be slower than Neuville... Allraighty then?!?
Neuville was on form in the second part of 2013. But has since driven with his shoulders above his ears, and have compensated for the lack of speed by attacking even more, which has made him even slower.
Neuville is a great talent, and has the potential of taking on Ogier, but then someone needs to tell him why he was so fast in 2013, and it was not by driving as he does now.