Citroen's plans to take points off Ford I'm guessing. It could all turn to custard and he could take points off Citroen 'senior' team. Interesting move.Quote:
Originally Posted by alleskids
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Citroen's plans to take points off Ford I'm guessing. It could all turn to custard and he could take points off Citroen 'senior' team. Interesting move.Quote:
Originally Posted by alleskids
Some Finns retired from the forum?
But will Petter have cart blanche (and so is running the car by his own team) or is he under guidence of Citroen (and the car is run and controled by Citroen Junior) ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Maui J.
I suspect Petter will do as he is told on RGB if he is an official Citroen Junior driver. That's not to say at some stage he'll get a fastest stage or two just to let everybody know that he still has it. Play the game and he'll be a C4 for 2010.Quote:
Originally Posted by alleskids
haha.. No way.. He's finnished!!.. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by noel157
Are you jealous or something? At least it seems so by your stupid comments!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Barreis
He needed to prove himself that he's still really quick after problems in Finland.. That's why he took new car..
Isnt Ford planning something more to take points out of citroen?
Only to take the money..
Duval for Spain, Martin for GB in a Focus would explode the battle ! :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Koppomsbo
Pannizzi for Spain and Marcus for GB...Ok I will wake up now..... :DQuote:
Originally Posted by muscrae
Guys,there is a small interview of Mikko on MTV3 and after him Marcus says somerthing as well...Is it possible for a finnish member to help us with the translation??Thanks in advance!Here is the link:http://www.katsomo.fi/?progId=21231
Nothing special really, just normal discussion about last Finnish champion and how long pause there has been since the last time a Finn has won the championship and talks about how Mikko can really take the win this year if everything goes to plan. Hirvonen (according to always lovely Anette :D ) admits that he is going to Spain to fight for the second place.Quote:
Originally Posted by Psycho!
Mikko is telling about the tarmac tests, once again Markko Märtin has been helping them and testing some new ideas presented by the engineers. Mikko says that the engineers have made a totally new approach to tarmac setups and that the results have been good.
Marcus just talks about how good position Mikko is in.
Thanks mate!!You're great!!!
Armindo Araujo would like to make the jump to an S2000, he's studiyng the possibility but needs more money!!!!
Name me a driver who doesn't need more money :D :D :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Francis44
Jani Paasonen. He would drive for free just for the sake of driving.Quote:
Originally Posted by ProRally
I belive they have in hungary something called charity rally, its something where everyone who want get a rally car, also they dont have to invest in their driver carreer anything. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by ProRally
No rally Argentina 2010 - No Munchi´s Ford WRT in WRC... :(
That will make Barreis happy...................................Quote:
Originally Posted by CABAIO E'LONA
Never that way..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ5p3kC1ksA
Have Munchi's pulled out of the WRC compleatly?Quote:
Originally Posted by CABAIO E'LONA
IMO Argentina is one of the classic events that should be on the calendar every year.
agree, classic and a drivers rally also.Quote:
Originally Posted by OldF
Shhhhh don't say these things loudly, there are people happy here to have another tarmac rally instead of Argentina ... :|
Argentina was always a better run event than Mexico.
Agree. There is so much history written, people love rally there and the mountain stages are very nice to see.Quote:
Originally Posted by OldF
Again a big mistake in WRC.
Fantastic rally, however the regular rock throwing at the cars is reason enough for it to be taken off the calendar. Dead drivers are not worth keeping a 'tradition' alive...
Unfortunately spactators are not happy only with good driving or throwing snow or gravel (sometimes with wheelbarrow).. They found hard core entertainment: stones into the carglass..
a million of fans staying in the mountains all the weekend is incredible more difficult to control than a few kangaroos... for example ...Quote:
Originally Posted by WRCfan
...furthermore how you garantee that argentinians fans throw rocks to rally cars???
I'm sure that maybe something like that happened sometimes but I can tell you that the points that Fia put every year for the organization is MUCH higher than the most part of the calendar...
I think Argentina is a great rally but it deserved to get caught out!!!!
I've seen many organisators using the rally's history and past for the continuation of it, but they dont really work and they dont care, so i think they deserved it and maybe next year they will think 2 times before screwing up!!!!
And dont give us that crap about "because its historic it must be on the calendar"....The decision off rotative rallys is one of the few things, if not the only thing, FIA has decided to do right in last 2 years. People bitched about it and now they have seen some amazing new rallyes!!!!
I think F.Delacour had hard accident in Australia (2001 or 2002) after big stone hit windscreen..
What amazing new Rallies?? Apart from Poland which was good.Quote:
Originally Posted by Francis44
Neither of Delecour's big crashes in Australia happened after rocks hit his windscreen.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barreis
Well good you haven't seen more than a new rally this year so dont go that way!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by AndyRAC
I saw different on onboard.. First bang on windscreen and after that big crash..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WezXQ9GhC4
Maybe some kangaroo was eating.. So piece of food went straight into the windscreen..
Luckily the rotation is history.Quote:
Originally Posted by Francis44
Maybe a rally like Jordan where the only spectators where camels.Quote:
Originally Posted by Francis44
That wasn´t a stone thrown from spectators that broke the windscreen, if you watch it again you can see that he hits something really hard in left front wheel and the impact is so hard that the windscreen brokeQuote:
Originally Posted by Barreis
And because of that it was not a good rally??!!Quote:
Originally Posted by OldF
Please dont tell me even before the rally started you didnt know that there was going to be no spectators, they made the rally for propagation of it's country, and they did it well. It's better to have no spectators than have them throwing rocks!!!!
:D Yeah that was a rock for sure...NOTQuote:
Originally Posted by Barreis
In case you didn't know, the windscreen is attached to the car's chassis quite firmly. Actually (atleast in non-racing cars) the windscreen has a huge impact on the stiffness of the chassis (in the front sections). If I recall correctly, in some Pilkington's manual it said around 80 percent! :eek:
WRC cars take such a pounding nowdays that it's quite normal to see a crack of somesort in the windscreen. In that particular crash the first impact (with a tree stump or something like that) twisted the chassis so badly that the glass couldn't cope with the twist and cracked. Same thing with Mikko in 2008 Argentina, one rock hit so hard that the chassis bent to such extent that Mikko was unable to open his door and windscreen cracked.