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Feel sorry for Loubet.
Tanak's car is still going strong and setting good pace (& Loubet caused his Ford to stop).Quote:
Originally Posted by EstWRC
Rossel Yohan - Dunand Arnaud
"I think dampers are dead."
Probably it was massive time from Tänak on this stage from 2nd on the road. That f*cking puncture yesterday...
SickQuote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
Stage is 8.8km and they put one split on 6.8km
Is that pic for real or Photoshopped?Quote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
the Puma doesnt seem to work at all if its more slippery, same like in Croatia
Kalle season has started... from here to the next 4 rallies, it will be tough for anybody to keep up.
Posted on Tanak's socials.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rallyper
I hope not, but i fear it might be so. except ogier, none of his teammates are even near his level and both the hyundai and the ford can't keep up with that toyota.Quote:
Originally Posted by focus206
perhaps opening the road in sardegna can level it out at bit.
Not that dramatic. Yet...
* We don't know how Tänak could match with Rovanperä at the moment from equal road position.
* Sometimes Hyundai seems to struggle (usually 1st pass)
* Sometimes Toyota seems to struggle (usually 2nd pass)
But as it stands, it's quite a big step away from others in the standings.
The current points difference is not the main issue, same as last year there is no crew/car combo that can keep up with Rovanpera over the whole season.Quote:
Originally Posted by meh
People tend to over dramatize things. Go look in the Monte thread now as how doomed everyone thought the season already is and handing trophies to Kalle and Toyota. It’s quite a fun read :DQuote:
Originally Posted by meh
Because Hyundai was a bit fckd up in the beginning (which makes your statement kind of valid), but in my opinion the statement does not contain the trend, that Tänak was in a better shape in the second part of the season and this year, Toyota is not that dominant compared to others.Quote:
Originally Posted by seb_sh
I don't say that Rovenperä is not the main title-contender, he is, but there are a bit more tones between black and white. Once they even made movie related to those tones.
I stand by my prediction that Kalle will dominate the standings, there's plenty of rallies left to create a big gap between him and everybody else. I really hope not, because I want a close season, but who can challenge him? Evans and Neuville are not consistent enough. Tanak drives a Puma. Ogier is part-time.Quote:
Originally Posted by EstWRC
The only way is if Kalle starts making mistakes by himself.
You mean Emir Kusturica's "Black cat, White cat"?Quote:
Originally Posted by meh
Well, Loubet’s bad start of season so far is not a big surprise.
As already evoked, he was clearly overrated IMO last season for two reasons:
- he knows very well WRC rounds as he began his career directly in WRC rounds for a while + had some RC1 experience
- his teammates were very bad, which created a relative difference that faked a bit the evaluation
- also, his relative road position this season is a little worst than in 2022; indeed, as they is less car this season, he is 8th or 9th on the road where he was 10th or 11th; sounds nothing at first glance but he can make a relative difference of 2 positions with drivers he could compete before.
Issue is he has only two real windows of opportunities this season to deliver a good result: Portugal-Sardinia and Greece-Chile (thanks to the road position and his knowledge of the roads or not too much gap of knowledge for Chile). And he already spoiled the first rallye of the first window.
On other rallies, I don’t really see how he can do something significant (except a 2022 Ypres-Solberg result style).
So promising (especially in WRC2) entry lists and basically rally is over already on Friday.
WRC needs tyre competition like ERC
Tänak 14 secs quicker in spl1 than in the morning
E: never mind. Seems to be a glitch
These are the kind of roads they should all be like for this rally.
seems like Tanak again fkd.. or massive split glitch
Seems that split2 time is displayed to split1Quote:
Originally Posted by TypeR
Is it just me or has the frame rate of the footage improved? The stream is still in same quality as before, but the footage seems a lot smoother this rally
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Tanak probably settled for his position. He cant really catch the Hyundai's with that gap so no point risking a push.
Obviously not. something is wrong again and just out of service..Quote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
Tänak can forget the title
7 gravel rallies in a row and the car is so bad on gravel.
It looks like they increased the bitrate. Same resolution and framerate, but less artefacts and ghostingQuote:
Originally Posted by Katvala
I don’t think there is nothing wrong at the moment that He said during the service again that the window where the car works is very small and also that the car is like wooden horse when the stage is rutted.Quote:
Originally Posted by TypeR
And now when the stages are more rutted the car just doesn’t have performance
Thats a bit dramaticQuote:
Originally Posted by EstWRC
My assumption is that Tänak was experimenting/testing with setup and it did not work out.
The biggest surprise for me is the struggling Neuville. He seems kinda lost at this rally
Either he is counting on team orders and refuses to take risks for a position he'll get anyway. Or car/setup/both aren't up to his liking and he just can't go faster (if so, how come his teammates can?).Quote:
Originally Posted by EstWRC
This i my guess aswellQuote:
Originally Posted by meh
Last year it all looked hopeless with Hyundai but they made it work, I’m aware M-sport doesn’t have the same resources as Hyundai but I do hope they manage to pull it out of the bag.Quote:
Originally Posted by EstWRC
Also, was that a mistake with the first split of the stage or did perhaps he had a spin or lose hybrid and kept it to himself?
It was some kind of mistake yeahQuote:
Originally Posted by Eli
I also really hope they get the car working once they have done the homologations but I don’t know. Somehow I’m still not optimistic
They only talk about the updates but nothing doesn’t seem to happen. I mean they have talked about the engine update almost for a year now and still hasn’t happened