Petter Solberg WRT

I'm happy for Peter get rid of the Xsara (which is still a car not to be thrown away...), but let's be realistic: on the Spanish tarmac Peter will not come close to the times made by Loeb, Sordo, Ogier and Mikko (even I would wish him to be faster than Mikko as I'm Loeb fan). Peter never realy shine on tarmac, the gaps behind Loeb were always in minutes and this also a miracle named C4 will not change.
Do not attack me that Peter drove until now on a tarmac yust Subaru, which was worse than C4/Focus-we all know that...
Still this will be his first race in C4 and especally on tarmac Loeb and Sordo are a planet for themselves.
In Walles I'm expecting different story !!

i have a feeling it will be 1 more chapter in the amusing fariy tail, the car was not good enough.

well ogiers performance and Novikovs in the private cars showed that the car lacks very little compared to the works cars....and Solberg superior driving skills will sure make up for that small gap. I think a mediocre performance in GB should put an end to this soap opera.

Nice to see you in here N.O.T .. :)

I think the cars performance will vary according to the situation.

We all agree that on tarmac Petter has never shone. But on GB I'm pretty sure he'll be there up in the standing.

Up in the standings? What is that? No.15? No.10? 8? 5? 3? My bet is top4 in Spain, and top3 in GB..(Top3 could be 1,2,3 :) )

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Originally Posted by Helstar

We all agree that on tarmac Petter has never shone. But on GB I'm pretty sure he'll be there up in the standing.

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How can anyone forget when Petter jumped on the bonnet of Subaru yelling " It's just incredible, my first tarmac win!!! "

However, it was in rainy conditions when his Pirellis worked way better than Michelins.

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Originally Posted by A.F.F.

How can anyone forget when Petter jumped on the bonnet of Subaru yelling " It's just incredible, my first tarmac win!!! "

However, it was in rainy conditions when his Pirellis worked way better than Michelins.

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Correct me if i'm wrong but i seem to remember that he even gambled with the tyre choice and others were on slicks for 2 stages driving in heavy rain. Plus the fact that Pirelli's were superior on wet anyway.

I think he will struggle a lot on tarmac.. He just does'nt know how to handle that..top 10 is maybe the best.. I hope he is getting some help from somebody to learn how to handle it..