2008 Rallye Deutschland - official thread

hires gallery from shakedown

http://www.rajdy.v10.pl/Rajd,Niemiec...leria,747.html

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Originally Posted by White Sauron

You can clearly see from this photos, that the headlights on the Focus are still old. They just used black stripes to stylize them as the new ones.
The same with the grill. They just used a patch below to close it's narrow part, and painted it.
Doesn't impress me honestly, looks very cheap.

http://www.worldrallypics.com/fotowe...5397/12967.jpg

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I think its clever what M-Sport have done. To the passing fan it looks like the new shape car, and thus fullfils the marketing aspect of a new road car. But by doing it this way the team do not need to fabricate a whole batch of new bodywork panels, and it also allows them to use existing shells. Hopefully all the cooling and whatnot will work but its not like the team have a huge budget to do things like this. So well done to them I say.

Decals, painted, hell, even the real thing!, i still HATE that new "face" for the focus, i'm quite traditional with desing but it looks like they tried to copy the front of the corolla, yuk!
On the important matter: don't think it'll be all that intersting event, hope Dani can push seb (though i doubt it) and i think Duval will make his usual move: out of the road or something nasty (like beating only the ford boys haha). By the place Atko finished on finland, it will be wise to watch him out.
Later fellows....

It looks possibly like privateer Gareth Jones has switched his entry from a Focus to a white Impreza S12. I've seen a picture which looks like it could be him from SD, not sure if anyone can confirm, or actually cares lol.

It's him alright in an S12B reg KT07 SRT, car run by Dom Buckley, plans to do Catalunya as well.

http://rally.ie/downloads/080813_234...s_CIMG0057.JPG

Image from www.rally.ie

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Originally Posted by Tom206wrc

And also the same week-end is the LMS 1000km of Nürburgring ;)


Anyway, can't wait to see if Loeb and Citroën can pass Hirvonen and Ford in their respective championship after that coming week-end :bounce:

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I would think the race at Nurburgring will be more entertaining than the Rally. But we live in hope.

Garreth Jones was one of the drivers who was the busiest in shakedown.
It looked good what he did.
Ok first lap he had a little off, but the rest was not bad. ( in my eyes) ;) )

Here is a picture from him:

http://rallyeheart.ra.funpic.de/comp..._140_kopie.jpg

Regards Tigger9232

Should be a very intresting rally with Duval back.

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Originally Posted by Tigger9232

Garreth Jones was one of the drivers who was the busiest in shakedown.
It looked good what he did.
Ok first lap he had a little off, but the rest was not bad. ( in my eyes) ;) )

Here is a picture from him:

http://rallyeheart.ra.funpic.de/comp..._140_kopie.jpg

Regards Tigger9232

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Interesting sponsor!! Am I missing something here?
http://www.vicari.com/

Really looking forward to this event, will be very interesting to see how Duval goes here, also should be interesting to see how Ogier compares to Meeke in the Clio, my feeling is that to date mini Seb has had a good year amongst a weak field, Meeke is a great benchmark for him to be judged against this weekend