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No matter what people think of Petter, it is good for the sport to have one more manufacturer fighting in the top.
The S14 seems to be a notch faster than S12B, and much more to come !!
Lets see what happens tomorrow, but Petter has said that his morning tacticks will be to try to secure 2nd, but things might change.....
Also Hope Henning will get a podium, he is fast on gravel, but need more training on Asfalt, there he is lost !!!!!!!!!
Like I said, today will be very difficult day and only the leader of the rally will be on the same place after day two. I was wrong! Urmo is again fifth.
Anyone knows why Urmo Aava lost that much time during the second split?
I think that the problem was Sordo? Anyone heard anything from WRR?
Sordo got 60 sek penalties before stage 13. that means he started just before Aava, and Aava lost something like 40 sek on the second split and 3 se on the last split. And from his comments you can see that he said: "no comments you will see"
Anyone can confirm that?
The odds for Henning Solberg winning was 1:60 (at expect.com)Quote:
Originally Posted by Tomi
The odds for Petter was 1.18 (will probably be lower in Turkey)
I must support Petter for the win now that the Ford are way down.......
I was right.. Aava was slowed by Sordo´s dust:-(Quote:
Originally Posted by bluuford
But tomorrow will be very interesting day again :-)
And the McRae brothers I think in RAC (don't remember the year though..)Quote:
Originally Posted by SUBARUNORWAY1
Think you mean 95 and Alister was fourth.Quote:
Originally Posted by kleisj
A good day for us norwegians, I hold my thumbs for a troublefree tomorrow - it would have been very nice with 2 Solbergs on the podium.
Otherwise, very interesting to see the new Subaru, a little slow start, but pretty impressive debut, I think. I've just seen some incar footage with Petter, and I think it is obvious that the new car is much more balanced. You could clearly see that Petter didn't have to adjust the steering wheel all the time, and the car wasn't wobbling from side to side as we have seen many times the last year. There is surely a bit left to directly compete with the pace of C4 and Focus, but a very promising start, IMO.
Also nice to see Henning in competetive pace, after 2 days just a bit over 1 minute behind Seb.
I look forward to tomorrow - and the rest of the season!
Day 2 is over with many mixed feelings.
I really thought that today the Fords will make a nice comeback and fight for the win. Seb would make road sweeping and Fords flat out. Not the case. Bad luck for both.
My first surprise was the starting order. I saw Hirvo 2nd in the starting order and I was wondering why. Probably they kept their road positions before yesterday's Super special stage.
I was at ss8 & 11 at Aghii Theodori. Really disappointing to see Latvala being really late cruising to the end of the stage.
This Acropolis has proved to be one of the roughest. The stages were really bad. Too many rocks and too many victims as well. Osteberg had 3 punctures.!!! on the 24th km of the stage he arrived with his front right tyre flat. After that I heard on the stewards intercom that he was missing. He had stopped to change the tyre. Organizers need to search for better stages next year or go back to Lamia area. The whole spectacle was poor, since it became a survival game.
Solberg Peter was very spectacular. Good to see him fight again. The crowd went mad when he arrived at the service park.
The Red Bull effect. The two PWRC guys sousa and aigner were the most spectacular to watch. Really fast and very very sideways. Aava also . Very impressive world class driving.
Day 3 is starting and I will be at Assopia stage ss15&18. Is a nice stage to watch and drive, not too many rocks there.
is it possible there is something more sinister goin on? like aava illegally giving sordo a spare tyre to save sordo from retiring on road section? would citroen pull a stunt like that? i know they're peed off about the control tyre.Quote:
Originally Posted by bluuford