Rally Croatia 2022

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Originally Posted by flat_right

It was a very eventful and exciting rally! Really enjoyed it. Big congratz to Kalle, what an amazing rally and PS stage! A bit like Tänak a few years ago with Toyota. Also very happy for Tänak and Hyundai. In Monte, they were nowhere, but now at least Neuville was on par with Kalle. It was a bit difficult to evaluate Tänak's real pace as he was hindered by road position and later the gap was too big to really push. Anyway, as Hyundai has said that they are more prepared for gravel so let's see what will happen in the next rallies.

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Fully agree. I would add one point, it seams the Hyundai has built a really strong car. Neuvilles crash at PS was quite e big one and still all the wheels were attached to the car.

I was only concentrating on Kalle vs Tänak time on power stage and didn’t notice that they had such a huge gap to others. Wow

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Originally Posted by EstWRC

I was only concentrating on Kalle vs Tänak time on power stage and didn’t notice that they had such a huge gap to others. Wow

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Yeah, write it down for trivia: PS point was taken with losing 25.8sec. By RC2 car.

Loved that from Kalle, great stuff.
He would have been really unfortunate to have not won this rally, but to do it that way was good viewing.

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Originally Posted by jonkka

Millener and M-Sport brass didn't applaud to Breen when he finished?

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Not good leadership for the team!

But Breen is way off what most of us expected so far. They need 1 more experienced driver to get manu points. If they leave it as is, they are missing a great opportunity, with a car that is competitive (for once).

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Originally Posted by sti123

Fully agree. I would add one point, it seams the Hyundai has built a really strong car. Neuvilles crash at PS was quite e big one and still all the wheels were attached to the car.

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and now compare Neuvilles's crash to Tänak's slide into bank in Monte.. which ended the rally for him.

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Originally Posted by Sulland

Not good leadership for the team!

But Breen is way off what most of us expected so far. They need 1 more experienced driver to get manu points. If they leave it as is, they are missing a great opportunity, with a car that is competitive (for once).

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nothing really indicated that Breen would be the top class driver M-Sport needed

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Originally Posted by sti123

Fully agree. I would add one point, it seams the Hyundai has built a really strong car. Neuvilles crash at PS was quite e big one and still all the wheels were attached to the car.

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Hopefully it's like that, but it's early to judge, could simply be this time the stars have aligned. Hyundai still had more gremlins such as alternator problems compared to Toyota. We'll see in the gravel rallies how robust suspensions and everything else is.

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Originally Posted by TypeR

and now compare Neuvilles's crash to Tänak's slide into bank in Monte.. which ended the rally for him.

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Nothing to compare there.

i've been involved in rallying for 40 years.

That last stage performance by Kalle was one of the very best I've witnessed in that time.

Just sensational.