2008 Rally Argentina - official thread

I'm no bandwagon rider so yes, he has one here!

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Originally Posted by Mr Lopez

interesting fact... rautenbach is 4th - 18 mins off the lead. At the end of Mina Clavero last year this time diff to the leader would have put him in 14th, 2 and a half mins behind the group N leader....

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Last year was also shortened by 100+ kms....

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Originally Posted by Daniel

..... and also rans started getting points in rallies when it used to be the case where you'd have to be a works driver with skill and a good car under you to get points.

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It used to be the case where anybody entered in the event would score points, so long as they finished high enough in the results.

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Originally Posted by Daniel

I am of the opinion that if the FIA thinks that S2000+ on it's own will take the WRC back to it's glory days then they're in for a nasty surprise.

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Must admit I’ve thought that – is the S2000 route is the panacea we’ve all been waiting for? How do we know more Manufacturers will join? Just because they currently have S2000 cars doesn’t mean they’ll want to go the whole hog and join in. Could you blame for not joining? What are they going to get out of it? The whole WRC needs a kick up the backside from top to bottom; events, format, etc The shame is there wasn’t a lot wrong with it up until about 2002 – since then a gradual decline.

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Originally Posted by Woodeye

Couldn't agree more. This rally was a complete waste of time. Next one please! (it's third or fourth time when I say that, getting bored to watch 2nd class drivers to lose over ten minutes to winner) :mad:

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Incredible how are finnish fans when finnish drivers "fail" :s

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Originally Posted by Tom206wrc

Incredible how are finnish fans when finnish drivers "fail" :s

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dont generalise, i think most understand the charactare of motorsport and new events comes soon.

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Originally Posted by Tom206wrc

Incredible how are finnish fans when finnish drivers "fail" :s

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When you're Peugeot's and the French guys fail, you are even more angry...

Watching the review saw Loeb were angry with the decision with no cutting the tires, but I am more astound to found out they are actually running on the hard tires in the mud. Don't know how much that may have contribute to Latvala's off. But certainly I wasn't too optimistic with this control tires idea in some special conditions, such as high speed tarmac, could cause big accident in wrong tire in the wet. Hopefully the FIA will review this a bit more, or I'm just over reacting due to watching circuit racing seeing how important it is with the tires being right.

Furthermore when the news wrote 'Pirelli: We overcame a tough test in Mexico'. Ummm, no it didn't seem so for me.

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Originally Posted by bowler

Looking back in history, it would be hard to describe this result as "boring" in relation to 30 years of WRC results.

The end result was nothing spectacular to the "No one gets near Loeb...,so it's boring" brigade, but that hardly pays any respect to the results for the others.

How gutted will Latvala and Hirvonnen be. Some small mistakes stole their rally away, and Mikko was going very well. Solberg must be gutted after sitting in a comfortable second, driving a car that was no good last season and is running well now, only to have it stolen by a few loose electrons.

Loeb had to work his butt off to get to where he was, and then hold it. It was no picnic for him at all.

Atkinson running so well in second, lost it until luck intervened.

I don't know how it could be boring to all the couch potatoes. I thought it was a great and hard rally. Life must be tough at the glowing end of a computer screen :-)

Congratulations to Loeb, Atkinson and Sordo, and to Rautenbach who must be feeling pretty good today. If the others fail to finish and you do finish, then the points and satisfaction are still yours.

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Wise words!

If he (LOEB) want to have the perfectly tyre he must race on circuit were he belonged! Everyone wants see action and no high speed train!

Why he is angry if he does not in front of all the others? Ooo-yes that makes him this way popular!!!
I agree with Ford this time. Same tyre for everyone!

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Originally Posted by tmx

Watching the review saw Loeb were angry with the decision with no cutting the tires, but I am more astound to found out they are actually running on the hard tires in the mud. Don't know how much that may have contribute to Latvala's off. But certainly I wasn't too optimistic with this control tires idea in some special conditions, such as high speed tarmac, could cause big accident in wrong tire in the wet. Hopefully the FIA will review this a bit more, or I'm just over reacting due to watching circuit racing seeing how important it is with the tires being right.

Furthermore when the news wrote 'Pirelli: We overcame a tough test in Mexico'. Ummm, no it didn't seem so for me.

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