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Just back home from Catalunya
Impressions to be posted tomorrow (Mon) evening, thanks though to Priorat for his pointers to stages.
Shame the Robin Hood was closed, O'Brian's was nice but no one else got the message in time!
Met Rage82 at the Santa Marina 2 stage for a really pleasant conversation, pleasure to put a face to a name
Congrats to Seb, JML, JarkNIk, Craig Breen, Guerra and Snr Suarez.
Nice rally. shame to be so far away and having to follow on twitter and forum in the middle of the night, instead of being part of the crowd!!!
A bit disappointed by Mikko, doesn't seem to get it on Tarmac - However it seems that the fiesta has done a massive step forward performance wise on tarmac, especially on damp / dry / wet conditions. Considering latvala / otsberg / tanak pace...
Congratulations to Seb & Daniel obvisouly. By looking at the videos, he just has the perfect line on every corner, its unbelievable how precise and net he is all the time. Big respect.
Neuville as boring as ever. As somebody mentioned earlier, he'd better show some results early next year, otherwise his support from citroen will be cut and belgium will remain famous only for their beers.
Good rally from Latvala, shame he his only consistent AND fast the second half of the season generally.
Shame for Ostberg loosing the 3rd place in championship but it looks like he is sorted for a factory seat next season so look forward to see what his pace is with some additional testing and better support. (I'd like to see him in the DS3 personally)
Nice from Sordo to finish with plenty of stages win for Prodrive... IMO his only chances to win rally is if he goes to Ford. Otherwise at citroen, Loeb will do most of the Tarmac rally apparently leaving Sordo in the corner...
Novikov not impressed by DMack, not too sure we will see a DMack team next year!
Tanak, good speed obviously, but still young. 1 more season in a junior team and we will definitely see him more often on the podium.
Solberg... Everything has been said already I'm afraid...
Anyway, just wanted to share my point of view.
Can't wait for Monte Carlo now!!! 10 weeks... I have a huge respect for Loeb, but this new season without him just sound very promising and exciting!!!
Ahlin seems he got lucky and injured..
At the hospital in Tarragona, we had a very bad accident yesterday and to be honest I don't remember a damn thing from yesterday except quick flashes during yesterday night, so I can't explain or even understand what happened! I have a head concussion, broken rib and all in all quite bruised in the whole body but after hearing how bad the accident was I think I was still quite lucky, and most important thing for me is that Morten is also OK! Wants to give a big thank to all of you who have been sending me get well greetings, means a lot in hard times like this !
http://i46.tinypic.com/2m322jq.jpg
That's what I saw in review. Nobody threw any rocks. It is something like small concrete bridge.
And several drivers lost a wheel on it due to cut policy
Yeh..... I wouldn't do this...Quote:
Originally Posted by dimviii
Hats down to rallue 26 for places choices
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XSEySgfY0s
Sordo @ 1,4:eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by SlowSon
Juwra says Petter still has some speed (at least compered to Mikko)Quote:
Originally Posted by dimviii
Stage wins
Loeb, Sebastien (FR) 67 (25.9% of stages)
Latvala, Jari-Matti (FI) 55 (21.2% of stages)
Solberg, Petter (NO) 44 (17.0% of stages)
Hirvonen, Mikko (FI) 30 (11.6% of stages)
Neuville, Thierry (BE) 11 (4.2% of stages)
Sordo , Daniel (ES) 11 (4.2% of stages)
Ostberg, Mads (NO) 9 (3.5% of stages)
Tanak, Ott (EE) 6 (2.3% of stages)
Novikov, Evgeniy (RU) 3 (1.2% of stages)
al-Attiyah, Nasser (QA) 1 (0.4% of stages)
Atkinson, Christopher (AU) 1 (0.4% of stages)
Ogier, Sebastien (FR) 1 (0.4% of stages)
But this dont give you stage wins...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=sFKfnIOVApU