Great 3rd Place From Mikko Hirvonen, Congratulations !!! :bounce:
Sordo was to slow on the loose....
Mikko N.O.T :D :D :D
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Great 3rd Place From Mikko Hirvonen, Congratulations !!! :bounce:
Sordo was to slow on the loose....
Mikko N.O.T :D :D :D
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http://www.rallymexico.com/newsReader.asp?id=1337
Car 3. GRONHOLM/RAUTIANEN
“It is okay second place and Seb (Loeb) gets only two points from me. I went from seventh to second which is not so bad. I am not happy with the weekend though, I lost it on the first day.”
Car 5. STOHL/MINOR
“It’s been okay for me today, maybe a bit slow but I am just cruising. I have nothing to win or nothing to lose now. The rally has been okay but the spectators throwing rocks have been a problem.”
Car 31. ARAI/SIRCOMBE
“In this stage, some of the spectators were stood in bad places.”
Well done Miggins :beer: :burnout: :hot: :s mokin:
Are we watching the same rally? When Marcus got right set-up he outpaced Mikko clearly (got half of minute away from ss 10to ss 14 - even not counting Mikko's time loss in spun). There was no question that Mikko was beating Marcus. There is no tendency - Norway was more like an exception.Quote:
Originally Posted by White Sauron
It may have something to do with Mikko being more used to writing notes on new rallys and thats why he got the edge in Norway
DOn't agree with you. On Friday marcus and Mikko were in the same conditions, and Gro acknowledged that faulty sensor wasn't the cause of his slow pace.Quote:
Originally Posted by Finni
Or Marcus being used to such perfected and detailed notes that he wasn't able to note the stages with the same percision and perfection as he has developed for other rallies...Quote:
Originally Posted by SUBARUNORWAY1
We will see if this holds true but, I think Seb and Marcus have such perfected notes for most rallies that when they run new rallies with virgin notes they are at a lack for information and other drivers are able to make up some of the performance differential.
In the friday afternoon the sensor was at least part of the reason for his slow pace. I really don't know where Marcus said that sensor problem was not effective? In the morning - when the sensor problem was not occuring yet - Hirvonen gained few second which means that in terms of performance he was still slower (he should have gained ten or fifteen seconds with similar pace to Marcus).Quote:
Originally Posted by White Sauron
This is the main point: When Marcus had passed different set-up and technical problems he caught Mikko's 20 sec advantage by few stage and had pace similar to Loeb. There is no question who was the stronger.
There is hardly only one reason but your suggestion might be one part. Also in Sweden had new long stage but Mikko was not utterly fast in it.Quote:
Originally Posted by SUBARUNORWAY1
Ha, sure, because yesterday's morning it was Mikko to have not the perfect set-up... No question who was stronger. cause they were equal.Quote:
Originally Posted by Finni