Acropolis Rally Greece 2022 (8-11 Sep)

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Originally Posted by EstWRC

PS order

Rossel
Gryazin
Lindholm
Greensmith
Lappi
Rovanperä
Katsuta
Breen
Loubet
Sordo
Tänak
Neuville

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Not a huge fan of the order.
I would have preferred that they put the youngsters from WRC-3 Junior first for the visibility (at least Armstrong and Virves) instead of WRC-2
All the more than the Power Stages WRC-2 points may have an important role in the title fight so the sweeping effect against Mikkelsen is not a gift

I watched SSS in Olympic Stadium, Bauxites and Pyrgos twice. I had a great time in the nature, Rally1 cars are awesome and I think generally the rally was good and the crowds were big.

Virves contained Armstrong in this one.
So it should be only about bringing the car home for Virves now.

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Originally Posted by Danny0405

Not a huge fan of the order.
I would have preferred that they put the youngsters from WRC-3 Junior first for the visibility (at least Armstrong and Virves) instead of WRC-2
All the more than the Power Stages WRC-2 points may have an important role in the title fight so the sweeping effect against Mikkelsen is not a gift

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Agreed. I also hoped they will at least bring Virves and Armstrong up to first starters. I mean we have championship deciding stage going on there.

I’m normally against team orders, but I just can’t see any logical reason to not apply them in this case. It doesn’t harm the team points in anyway, and Tanak can apply more pressure to Rovanpera.
I don’t blame Neuville, he wants to win and rightly so, but the team should step in here.
Madness if they don’t.

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Originally Posted by EstWRC

Agreed. I also hoped they will at least bring Virves and Armstrong up to first starters. I mean we have championship deciding stage going on there.

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Their starting order difference is ca 1.5 h, a bit impossible, unfortunately :/

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Originally Posted by meh

I'm not against Neuville get's the win here.

But "read between lines" feeling is that Hyundai is quite "team Neuville".

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+ car Neuville i20 Rally1

Loeb, Tanak, Loubet, Mikkelsen, Solberg do better with non Hyundai cars

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Originally Posted by doubled1978

I’m normally against team orders, but I just can’t see any logical reason to not apply them in this case. It doesn’t harm the team points in anyway, and Tanak can apply more pressure to Rovanpera.
I don’t blame Neuville, he wants to win and rightly so, but the team should step in here.
Madness if they don’t.

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While it's a remote chance, you still have to make the decision. It's happened on numerous occasions in all types of series. It would be typical Hyundai to miss out on the title by a handful of points.......All it will prove is Neuville isn't a team player......

Tanak was told to hold.

If no issue in the last one:
- Sordo, 3 podiums in 3 rallyes this season (and he is on a 5-podium streak taking into account end of last year); 54th podium in career to overtake Auriol and takes 9th all-time alone (and Neuville would achieve his 53th to tie Auriol for 10th position all-time). Ok, Sordo has the road position as he did only gravel rallies so far but with so low seat time and even an unreliable Hyundai at the beginning of the season, it’s pretty good.
- Katsuta, 9th consecutive top-6 finish this season and at least 100 points in 10 rallyes

Consistency