[WRC] Tour de Corse 2019

Thierry on the move...

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Originally Posted by Daniel Popov

Why did they exclude Giorgi Fabrice? The FIA decided it is not safe to drive an R5 car trough the wheel?
Shame, the guy is doing great..

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Team didn't apply for necessary documents to run modified car...

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Originally Posted by Daniel Popov

Why did they exclude Giorgi Fabrice? The FIA decided it is not safe to drive an R5 car trough the wheel?
Shame, the guy is doing great..

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dimviii, any live link? :)

Ogier losing a lot of time here

no stage end comments?

Meeke can still climb up quite high here, just 46 secs from the lead at the moment

What's up with Latvala, losing time? At the stage end he tells the setup is wrong?

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Originally Posted by EstWRC

Meeke can still climb up quite high here, just 46 secs from the lead at the moment

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Could be a case of what might have been.
Sordo coming fast but Latvala slow as fuck

I'd say ogier has steering alignment issue if he has hit the front of car in previous stage

top4 separated by 2.4 seconds. incredible

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Originally Posted by wrc2017

I'd say ogier has steering alignment issue if he has hit the front of car in previous stage

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did you even see that mistake, no damage done

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Originally Posted by Tauri_J

did you even see that mistake, no damage done

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obviously something is wrong, not his real pace

Loeb, Ogier & Latvala slowest WRC's on SS2 !

there is. front right corner

both citroens quite slow i would say

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Originally Posted by wrc2017

I'd say ogier has steering alignment issue if he has hit the front of car in previous stage

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Only damage he did was to right side canards I think. For sure there was no impact which can damage the steering.

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Originally Posted by wrc2017

there is. front right corner

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lol

thats cosmetical

Real pity no stage end interviews for Tanak & Ogier.

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Originally Posted by Tauri_J

lol

thats cosmetical

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well... let's see what he says then... he usually has some excuse.

Have wondered for quite a while now if some of the c3's tarmac ability may have been comprised to make more for a more driveable car on gravel certainly looks it at moment

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Originally Posted by wia5958

Have wondered for quite a while now if some of the c3's tarmac ability may have been comprised to make more for a more driveable car on gravel certainly looks it at moment

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Makinen just alluded to that indirectly. It's no longer a touring car ;)

As a Meeke fan, gutted :mad:

But looking at his pace if he keeps it on the tar he will move up steadily. On a positive note the pace is there once again!

Looks like a real interesting one, my money is now on Tanak. Evans and Sordo may have thoughts of a win also

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Originally Posted by wia5958

Have wondered for quite a while now if some of the c3's tarmac ability may have been comprised to make more for a more driveable car on gravel certainly looks it at moment

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Not so stupid when there are only two pure tarmac events.

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Originally Posted by RS

Not so stupid when there are only two pure tarmac events.

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pity they didn't think of that 3 years ago

I thought the same thing a year ago but was assured by the expert that it wouldn't.

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Originally Posted by wia5958

Have wondered for quite a while now if some of the c3's tarmac ability may have been comprised to make more for a more driveable car on gravel certainly looks it at moment

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Originally Posted by Dug83

I was just wondering with Citroen having seeming to have improved the handling of the C3 on gravel/loose surfaces is there a chance it has come at a cost to handling on tarmac? From all accounts it has been suspension geometry and diff changes that have help the handling so could it effect the setup?

Newton's 3rd law of physics comes to mind. Just a thought and hopefully someone with a bit more knowledge than me can give there thoughts on it.

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Originally Posted by wrc2017

pity they didn't think of that 3 years ago

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And they built a similar R5 car

Lappi stopped

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Originally Posted by KKS

that's why sometimes zero car catch double-zero and this train catch 1st competitive car?

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If that happens it means that the person who planned the start times did a shitty job or that there are serious issues on the route. Please educate yourself about what is the zero car for. It's not for racing, period.

Lappi stopped

Lappi nooo

moving again, puncture it seems

Lappi also lost 10 s in the first split, indicates a puncture

Spin it seems.

Go on Elfyn !

quite a surprising morning i would say, citroens struggling and hyundais going well.


personally im not surprised that Evans is doing well, he really likes this event

Lappi said he spun because it was his first time doing a hairpin with "rear wheel drive" :D

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Originally Posted by AnttiL

And they built a similar R5 car

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Purpose of R5 is to be cash-cow, it is for customers. And big share of western-european local rallies are more or less tarmac. So nothing wrong for R5 to be tarmac-oriented.

i expected quite a change from Lappi after moving to a new team.

but still i get this unhappy Lappi all the time.

Latvala blaming slow pacenotes from 2015. Crazy.