Rally RACC España Catalunya

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Originally Posted by dimviii

at the end of the stage seems that dust appears again.

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SS12] Dani Sordo (Citroen) 23:52.3 "After the tarmac there was lot dust in the corners. We were a lot of time out the line."

Inget so tired.... Dani needs to step up! He's doing soo good until the end of the stages were the dust is...

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Originally Posted by dimviii

at the end of the stage seems that dust appears again.

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Also, the last half of the stage is run towards generally eastern direction so rising sun may also add to dust's effect.

Neuville clearly not good enough for this. Hope he can still learn!

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Originally Posted by Carlo

Paddon has now driven two stages on gravel in a WRC car, he never had the opportunity to test on gravel. What do you expect of him in these circumstances, go maximum attack in dust with a car that is totally new to him and bin it?
Finally it is good to see someone with sufficient self discipline and knowledge to know when to go fast and when to be a little more prudent. His time will come.

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You know there are dozens of drivers who are able to reliably drive for 8-10th place. Unless You want to pay for Your driving You have to show more if You want to get to works team. The circumstances are sure bad and we could see that when Juho Hänninen in very similar situation had also problems to catch the speed without proper testing but still he was much faster (although with mistakes). I think that in these one offs nobody really care about reliability but about speed. It is off course different if there is some long-term program already set. Than it would make sense to catch experience step by step. But if it's just one drive than finishing 9th means less than few top 5 times without finish. It's just my opinion...

Neuville lost at the end 9,5 sec at about 6 km of stage.

Ogier now +2,9 from Sordo.

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Originally Posted by dimviii

Neuville lost at the end 9,5 sec at about 6 km of stage.

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[SS12] Thierry Neuville (Ford) 24:03.8 "It was okay, but I think we broke the differential or something, we have wheel spin in 4th and 5th gear… Otherwise my driving was okay, but we have a lot to improve."

I wonder what percentage of the forum viewers right now are from NZ, from looking at who is watching right now, sure looks like a few of us!

Hopefully Paddon has a good chance to push this afternoon once he has had time to process and adjust things to suit him more, but hard thing to get into a car you have never driven on gravel and do well. Would really like to see a top 6 time for him though.

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Originally Posted by Mirek

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Originally Posted by Carlo

Paddon has now driven two stages on gravel in a WRC car, he never had the opportunity to test on gravel. What do you expect of him in these circumstances, go maximum attack in dust with a car that is totally new to him and bin it?
Finally it is good to see someone with sufficient self discipline and knowledge to know when to go fast and when to be a little more prudent. His time will come.

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You know there are dozens of drivers who are able to reliably drive for 8-10th place. Unless You want to pay for Your driving You have to show more if You want to get to works team. The circumstances are sure bad and we could see that when Juho Hänninen in very similar situation had also problems to catch the speed without proper testing but still he was much faster (although with mistakes). I think that in these one offs nobody really care about reliability but about speed. It is off course different if there is some long-term program already set. Than it would make sense to catch experience step by step. But if it's just one drive than finishing 9th means less than few top 5 times without finish. It's just my opinion...

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Agree with Mirek.


Ogier will win this if he dont lose it with a roll!

He and julien is like a fucking rocket!!!

It´s not fun anymore... :(

Is he a robot or what?