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Ok please show us all the Proper Tech BenchmarkingQuote:
Originally Posted by jparker
No, he's leading the championship. Mikkelsen is nowhere near that level.Quote:
Originally Posted by jparker
Ok, I give up, you win. Lets follow the rally now.Quote:
Originally Posted by AnttiL
Listening to the pre event interviews, it seems that drivers are quite harsh towards there team management.
Meeke said the team is unstable becaue of the decisions by the management and they really need stability now.
Also, Sordo stating it's not fair to drop Paddon. They should have had more patient with him, as often the lack of result was due to technical problems.
Boy, you are totally helpless :laugh:Quote:
Originally Posted by jparker
In my book, M-Sport deserve the championship for all those years commitment to the WRC and the sport in general. Although I wished others driver would get the championship... but Ogier was super consistent and driving smartly where others were fast and maybe driving recklessly..
This was neuvilles championship to win, but he lost it because of his own mistakes. 20+ points in monte, 20+ points in sweden, +-20 points in spain. He could have been leading the championship by a big margin.
True about Neuville. That cut in Germany says a lot and then 3 more in Spain. And still we see a lot of cutting by Sordo and Mikkelsen in powerstage, like they have learned nothing by the weekend... Sorry but better have a little slower time than retiring immediately. And more chances for beating OgierQuote:
Originally Posted by denkimi
exactly... potato dog is nothing... he lost the championship to the slowest ford of the season... back in the potato field where he belongs.Quote:
Originally Posted by denkimi
But what about his performance in Argentina? He did pretty well. Like Ogier last year in Spain. He took all and win
What about it? He has won three times this season and he still is where he is...
“It’s not important how many times you fall down, it’s more important how many times you stand up again" well Kris, thanks for the facebook inspirational quote but at some point stakeholders at high level will not accept anymore your falls down... arsh cruelty of sport (and life).
A win now and again definitely helpsQuote:
Originally Posted by spiderem
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And everyone bet on Tanak next year, like on the start of season everyone was on Paddon, because of his rise previous years. And look him now he is frustrated and down the leaderboard. No one said that Kris would be real contender next year. Maybe next year Breen (if Citroen would not dump him for half of season) would be even better. We will see. And Hanninen was pretty bad at the start now he is shining for Toyota. Last rallies also Lefebvre come to pretty good results for him (no retirements).
One guy that bother me is Suninen. Sorry but that kid is so ungrateful. He always complains and is so hard on himself. He is doing great and he still are not happy. If he won World CHampionship he would be saying that this is not enough haha
it helps for sure but stakeholders want championships...Quote:
Originally Posted by rhm
I´m not sure the cut in Spain has been talked thru completely yet. That cut was not extraordinary. The car let him down. And maybe it has done it more times this year. I think Hyundai has a lot of details to improve stregth on.Quote:
Originally Posted by ESTR
Well, there was quite a big rock and if you think about his broken wheels in recce...
His car has also saved him quite a bit this year. Was it Argentina where he was going sideways in a rough ditch, almost rolling, but saved it+ won the stage?
Yeah I do wonder why ESTR has to go deep into the cuts ;)
Watch a few onboards from spain, everyone took cuts, specially in the one that cost Sordo and Mikkelsen their wheels. Every single one of the top drivers was in the cut, Tanak even as much as Sordo. (and got broken - trough rim from that).
we don't know how deep they cut the other drivers.Few centimetres can be crucial at this cut, considering the big photo from the cut I posted before some pages.If we had video from other driversfrom another angle maybewe could understand more.
Plenty of onboards on WRC+ (promo code is in the other thread), Tanak vs Sordo comparison was even in the daily highlights.
Even though it looks similar there can off course also be differences in the angle of the frontwheels. As I said on Saturday the Hyundais are probably likely to turn the wheels more due to the understeering issue they had.
Anyway my point now wasn't to argue about centimeters, just to remind that all drivers were cutting.
Btw. remember the cut that almost caused both Tanak and Østberg to crash due to bottoming-out in something like 6th corner of SS7.
with 12SS + 20kms adding in timetable, the new Tour de Corse road program is online → http://bit.ly/2g8LZSS
2nd stage looks like the second half of Corte-Taverna, the stage that was fatal in 1986. But the tragedy happened on the first half.Quote:
Originally Posted by jbmarcus21
Are you talking about superstition here, or you believe the stage is dangerous? While stages can be classified based of risk factors, tragedy can happen everywhere.Quote:
Originally Posted by AnttiL
Just an interesting detail. I mean, Corte-Taverna was driven as it was until the 1990's and we didn't get more fatal accidents there, so obviously it's not a super dangerous roadQuote:
Originally Posted by jparker
Still, wouldn't Ogier have had around the same, if not more time in the car before Monte, than Mikkelsen had when he started Germany?Quote:
Originally Posted by AnttiL
Don't worry, guys, Corsica has the lowest average speed in the championship, so it is definitely the safest possible rally.
Unlike that stage in Sweden. Total deathtrap!
those same stakeholders have responsibilty to provide a championship winning car.Quote:
Originally Posted by spiderem
Malcom is excelling in that!Quote:
Originally Posted by wrc2017
https://www.motorsport-news.co.uk/ne...ship-revamped/ "The decision to reduce the number of rallies is born out of the desire to cut costs involved." Well, 150 000 GBP (roughly 170 000 euros) isn't cheap for 5 events, and it happens to be the same cost as this year for 6 events... Add the personal expenses and it'll cost around 200 000 euros to do the championship. Not very accessible for youngsters, you need huge backing and get almost no return from it.
Yeah it's starting to fall apart again is the championship. Rob Duggan is a really talented guy who got shafted this year from what I can see despite supposedly having some of the prize paid for.
Osian Pryce won the title last year and it's not really helped him kick on this year has it. Limited WRC2 'paired' outings with no testing is tough.
It's such a pity guys like Duggan who have serious talent will find it extremely difficult to make a serious impression without massive financial backing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Simmi
Unfortunately that's the way it has always been in rallying and I can't see that changing.
The worst thing about Duggan's case was that he was promised money and he planned the whole Championship based around that. Then the promised money didnt come in the way it was supposed to.
More info here: http://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/o...es-456822.html
“Talent doesn’t get you anywhere.” .........Says it all really!!
Of course he is one of a huge number of talented youngsters that may never get their chance
Sadly, having the right passport also helps.....
Another one failed by the BRC... Seeing him, Mattias Adielsson and Sindre Furuseth in their R2s were some of my highlights of the 2016 BRC season.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jewy46
Sorry for dragging up the BRC again!
And the right family.Quote:
Originally Posted by Archie Gillaine
According to Revista Scracth, future R2 regulations may include the use of a BoP system, to level down car performances. The engine layout (atmo or small turbo) isn’t yet decided, but it seems FIA intention is to make future R2 a bit slower than current ones, in order to establish a bigger difference to R3. RS got this info from Matton, during Rally Catalunya; Citroen boss also told they’ll only decide to make a R2 or R3 C3 after rules become known and the R5 properly developed.
Kimi Raikkonen said that in 2019 could come back to rally.
Yes, they are on F1/WRC rotation with Kubica.Quote:
Originally Posted by AL14
Mäkinen confirms that Hänninen is not going to drive in Australia and that they will only have 2 cars there.
Nandan at Hyundai says that they have no intererest of sign Ogier for 2018. Quite happy about that. Maybe I'm the only one. I don't care.
Teemu / Rallirinki*@HartusvuoriWRC
Juha Kankkunen is suggesting his son Niko, 19, "might try" a few rallies next season with car from @TGardemeister. http://m.iltalehti.fi/ralli/20171013....shtml*…