Official Rally Mexico Thread

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Originally Posted by SUBARUNORWAY1

According to this Petter and Loeb are the fastest on 2,53min think it's safe to say that this is highly unoficial :D
http://www.rally-live.com/wrc/en/pho...iapo_051.shtml

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Nice 'Officials' though, is she typical of the rally support staff over there ??

Have to wait till I get home, vid feed is blocked into work. Damn ..!

Watching live from the service park, I have some thoughts...
Just think. Now it's 4 pm in Mexico... There're lots of mechanics around Subaru car, worrying about smth... Less people around Citroen cars: no more then 2 persons at the same time. And then Ford... Wow! there's absolutely nobody! Oh, no, no, there's one lonely mechanic cam and went away...

Why do I pay such a big attention to it? Hm... A simple logic: the more someone care about smth, the more they are uncertain about this subject/object. Almost the same thing as in Norway on shakedown: Marcus and Mikko did 2 runs and then had a rest: they were sure in their cars. Seb did a bit more runs, and in the race he was a bit slower than the Fords. And Petter with Chris did lots of runs in the shakedown and then showed almost no pace compared to the top teams. can the story repeat there? Can the thing that Ford team already at rest mean they're prepared on 110%? While Subaru guys again worried about their performance...

Mexico rally website won't offer us what Norway and Sweden did(quick shakedown results for instance)it seems :rolleyes:

Some here
http://www.norsk-rally.com/modules/m...D=2&C=2&I=4522

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Originally Posted by SUBARUNORWAY1

Some here
http://www.norsk-rally.com/modules/m...D=2&C=2&I=4522

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Thanks a lot)) But... haha... Companc faster than Hirvonen and Sordo - than Loeb and others make me think that in this rally shakedown is specially "untrustable"))

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Originally Posted by White Sauron

Watching live from the service park, I have some thoughts...
Just think. Now it's 4 pm in Mexico... There're lots of mechanics around Subaru car, worrying about smth... Less people around Citroen cars: no more then 2 persons at the same time. And then Ford... Wow! there's absolutely nobody! Oh, no, no, there's one lonely mechanic cam and went away...

Why do I pay such a big attention to it? Hm... A simple logic: the more someone care about smth, the more they are uncertain about this subject/object. Almost the same thing as in Norway on shakedown: Marcus and Mikko did 2 runs and then had a rest: they were sure in their cars. Seb did a bit more runs, and in the race he was a bit slower than the Fords. And Petter with Chris did lots of runs in the shakedown and then showed almost no pace compared to the top teams. can the story repeat there? Can the thing that Ford team already at rest mean they're prepared on 110%? While Subaru guys again worried about their performance...

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I would have thought it was very, very strange if Subaru didn't pay attention to their car - you're aware that this is their first rally with the new car?

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Originally Posted by Halvis

I would have thought it was very, very strange if Subaru didn't pay attention to their car - you're aware that this is their first rally with the new car?

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I am. But their Impreza isn't THAT new. In 2008 it will be new, but not now. Just an upgraded version.

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Originally Posted by White Sauron

There're lots of mechanics around Subaru car, worrying about smth...

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Maybe they are just watching that someone dont take the car, some Mexican might need fertilizer for their fields.

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Originally Posted by Iskald

When it comes to Paasonen I honestly don`t know, but didn`t he spoil his own possibilities for other reasons?

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What do you mean Iskald? I'm curious.

As much as I like Paasonen and think he could have been the fastest, I have to admit he got his fair chances as well. I'm not sure the reasons but I thi he was way too ditch consentrated driver and as fans loved him, team bosses and insurance companies hated him :)

I think things vent wrong for Paasonen when Mika Sohlberg started as his manager, also trying to show speed with a Skoda is not so easy either, has to overdrive all the time.