Sordo's retirement from another angle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ly9nyIRaiKs
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Sordo's retirement from another angle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ly9nyIRaiKs
Bad luck. Latvala's line was practically the same.Quote:
Originally Posted by makinen_fan
Someone asked if Elfyn retired due to mechanical or driver error. It was slight driver error. Cut too much and broke the wheel:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbEXb7up9Ns
Full highlights are on wrc.com from today
http://www.wrc.com/video/
I've tried to make little comparison between Jarkko Nikara and Hayden Paddon as Spain was their first event in a WRC car. On gravel stages in 2012 Jarkko was 1.29 s/km slower and I'm excluding the Terra Alta 2 stage where Jarkko lost 6 min. because of a puncture and a problem changing the wheel in the heavy mud. These year Paddon was 1.63 s/km slower than Ogier, he went through all the stages without any problem afaik. On tarmac Nikara was 2.31 s/km slower than Seb Loeb and Hayden was 0.86 s/km behind the fastest driver so on tarmac Paddon was faster in his first rally in a Wrc spec. car.
Of course Hayden has much more international experience than Jarkko and he has driven in Spain 2011 with the Subaru gr. N car and Spain 2012 with Fabia s2000 so he has great knowledge of the stages and experience with a car similar to WRC spec. Also MIni WRC isn't on same level as Fiesta because of the problems between Prodrive and BMW.
I don't want to say who was doing better in his first rally with WRC car it was just interesting for me to take a closer look at their results. Hope that we will see both in WRC cars next year as the championchip needs some new young guns.!
I'll admit that I've only begun to followed Paddon closely over the recent past, so i can't comment much about his rallying past. However, i believe that he drove a sensible 1st wrc rally. he was not fully comfortable and tried to improve the set up and performance as the rally progressed. To me that is a team/driver who has some intelligence/maturity at assessing a situation and working accordingly. It is better to gain some experience and finish the rally than to risk it all and bin it.
i always hear the top drivers talking about car set up and confidence affecting their performance, so in light of what Paddon said during the course of the rally, i think he did the right thing.
52 minutes of video and there was place for Ogier, Latvala, Neuville, Sordo and Kubica only, if you don't count crash-shots of others. I guess, nobody else counts in nowadays' WRC.Quote:
Originally Posted by makinen_fan
My gallery from Catalunya :
http://rallyphotos.pl/rajdy-2013/ral...ana-rallyracc/
http://rallyphotos.pl/wp-content/zdj...13-002-xxx.jpg
Very nice photosQuote:
Originally Posted by wojtek bulski