The notional time is 6.5s slower than Tänak, quite fair actually.Quote:
Originally Posted by EstWRC
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The notional time is 6.5s slower than Tänak, quite fair actually.Quote:
Originally Posted by EstWRC
It is still possible for Tanak to come back. But with not that luck.
There will be a rough 2nd pass, no one has gone through it yet.Quote:
Originally Posted by EstWRC
Bonkers stage by Fourmaux trying too hard to get time back. Going down the side of the stage was weird.
You would think, but that car isn’t built like the Tank that is Toyota….and once Neuville got his title…he’s done his part and Ott thinking to himself, “why oh why did I ever leave Toyota at the end of ‘19?”Quote:
Originally Posted by CeskyOndra
And he should think about that every day!Quote:
Originally Posted by Eli
Without car problems Tänak would have 3 wins possibly already and going for 4th one here. The 10 seconds loss with broken damper yesterday hurts a lot againQuote:
Originally Posted by CeskyOndra
But was and is doesn’t count in real life and this rally isn’t over yet
On EWRC Ogier has got a new Nominal time for SS 8, 15:31:9 puts him 15 secs in the lead after SS 9, although i haven't seen any official information about that .
Just seen a new COC Notification for this;
The Clerk of the Course,
• having received a request from competitor No. 17 to consider the allocation of a new time for SS 8,
where they were delayed by car No. 16 which had stopped at km 17.4 to change a flat tyre and then
restarted in front of car No. 17
• having reviewed the live on-board video from car No. 17
• having examined the split times set by competitor No. 17 in SS 8
• having examined the tracking data available on cars No. 8 and 17 at km 17.1
• after due consideration
APPLIES
Art. 52.2 of the 2025 FIA WRC Sporting Regulations and corrects the time of competitor No. 17 in SS 8 from 15:55.1 to 15:31.9.
Rossel out, nightmare for his championship.
There will be more dramas on the 2nd pass over this stage
We will see. I don’t want anyone to have technical issues or punctures. Wanna see a straight fight
The morning was so messy it’s actually hard to tell who was the fastest.
If you take away Ogier from the last two events, Hyundai don't look all that bad. The Frenchman is definitely making a big difference and probably the most significant cause of opposing driver "errors"
Unfortunately with these type of stages technical issues and punctures are going to happen, a straight fight for the lead is always better but i'll be surprised if it happens and by what everyone is saying tomorrows stages are even tougher. Then we have the small issue of Greece coming next.Quote:
Originally Posted by EstWRC
Clip for anyone who missed it...Quote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
https://x.com/RalioS4C/status/1931313495191990437
Thx, hard to keep up todayQuote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
Katsuta puncture front right. Stopped and changed.
I find this stage quite boring. I don't like the ending, every year, it's the same. Just a rallycross track. Is it just me?
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Noooo, Elfyn puncture :(
For his luck, it doesn't change anything.. position-wiseQuote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
Reprtedly Fourmaux had 7G crash
Luckily for Evans, the puncture doesn't really matter.
Fourmaux crashed... what a rally for him...
Fourmaux just.... I don't know.. Feel bad for him
I guess Ott and Seb both going past one stranded car evens things out…
I wouldn’t be surprised to see Hyundai calling back Sordo for Greece.
Nasty tactics from Toyota
Evans had a puncture but still overtook Pajari, Sami drove on the puncture for too long
Did they show Fourmaux's crash ?
I wonder if Tänak asked a few seconds back because of Pajari and if Ogier asked a few seconds back because of Fourmaux?
So Tänak lost about 2 seconds passing Pajari judging by ogiers splits
Only the car on the roof from the Ogier board cam.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
Did Ogier opened his belts before stage finish?
This is 7th! year in a row where Fourmaux doesn’t finish the rally at all or finishes with super rally.
He just has to let go that he can’t compete with Tänak and Neuville on the pace, which seems his main goal since Monte where he started off well, at least for me it seems so that he really wants show a place for Tänak and Neuville.
I have the same feeling as well. Smart thing for him would have been a solid season made of many top 5 and some podiums. Either it's like you say or he just finds the i20 too unpredictable compared to the Puma, but I don't recall Fourmaux ever saying so.Quote:
Originally Posted by EstWRC
Fourmaux is fast but not yet consistent. So he´d better drive his own rally with a pace that easily gives him a 4-6th place.
"It's easier to make a fast driver consistent, than a consistent driver fast." :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Rallyper
Interesting that Ott referred to FWD multiple times today. Could mean that the car tends to push on through the corners, which would fit with the understeer tendency in low grip mentioned upthread.
Or maybe the Hyundai is just broken again, who knows. ;)
Without Tänak vs Ogier it could be just cruising already. Without Super Sunday tomorrow, it could be boring like hell.
These two rallies have been such a dejavu from last season. Ogier won in Portugal last year because of Tanaks puncture and this year because of power steering.
And now Sardinia, last year the gap before Sunday was 17 seconds to Ogier and now it is 11 seconds while Tanak has had a broken damper and a slow puncture. On Sunday last year Tanak got the gap down to 6 seconds before the power stage.
Let’s see tomorrow how it plays out this year
I don’t think so, that would put him to same pace with Pajari, and with his experience he should do more. He has some really rotten luck this year, but also too many mistakes. But he is fastQuote:
Originally Posted by Rallyper