Rallye Wrc Monte Carlo 2012

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Sainz talking to Wilson Senior .

Malcom seeking advice on how to ban drivers from using mountain bikes ?
Carlos suggesting Malcom should try the Dakar Rally as a winter break ?

Here you can find starting order to first leg (Startovni poradi do 1. etapy) - Autosport : MS - Rallye Monte Carlo (SWRC+PWRC)

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Originally Posted by Mintexmemory

But there is a considerable difference between having several days before the deadline which are frittered away and having a narrow window of less than a day. The latter requires those with a life to spend time on line when they could be doing something useful ;)

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What we should consider here is the opportunity to wait for SD-times (even if they are not representable for the rally as a whole) not should gain any ones momentum.

Had a little chat with few people. Some interesting things...

PG and Zdeněk Hrůza told me that there is a lot of ice and some little snow on SS2/4. Cold weather, so ice must stay there. I will be somewhere at the end of stage 2/4 tomorrow, so we'll see...

PG told me they have better engine now and that he really feels the difference. Anyway it still lacks a lot compared to other as we could see on shakedown. Protons have the only goal to finish the rally (with the number of SWRC competitors it's definitely right strategy...).

Ogiers car really is on Sachs dampers, not Reiger as usual Škoda cars. Don't know about Abbring. Both VW Fabias don't have any bang when shifting which is quite uncommon for Fabias.

Zdeněk also told me thy took shakedown very easy to save tyres. There is again less tyres for one event.

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Originally Posted by Mirek

Two minutes there, no issue.



Again You point on wrong organization. FIA rules say supporter championship field must start together. ACM has nothing to do with that. They gave Abbring three minutes gap but it probably won't be enough on so long stages. Anyway Kevin wasn't angry at all. You will see soon in an interview.

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i think its more of a safety issue rather than who is happy or not,

what stopped the ACM dropping cook down the order ?

As I already said. She is PWRC competitor and MUST be seeded together with other PWRC competitors. That is given by rules.

True, seems logical, u get always priority when u enter those championship, that's one of the benefits when u enter and pay the fee. Yes it's not good for Abbring and don't like it too..

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Originally Posted by Mirek

As I already said. She is PWRC competitor and MUST be seeded together with other PWRC competitors. That is given by rules.

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what stopped them starting the SWRC first, then the PWRC ?

aaah abbring is not part of it....ok

Photos of the ceremony starting here : Photos Rallye du Monte-Carlo 2012

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