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    Quote Originally Posted by AnttiL View Post
    The official press kit had pictures of Meeke driving the Yaris with the All Live sticker on windscreen. I presume those were taken yesterday or some days before, which is also when the crash happened with the All Live sticker. In the crash the windscreen got broken, and was changed into a windscreen without All Live sticker, and this is the car Meeke drove today.

    I think the team has asked for the rally enthusiasts watching the test not to say anything about the crash, but the tractor driver hasn't heard of this and uploaded the picture casually to facebook or something, where someone has found it and put it circulating.
    And the number in the rear side window? Press release vid had allive sticker on front screen but no number on side window.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Norm75 View Post
    And the number in the rear side window? Press release vid had allive sticker on front screen but no number on side window.
    The "number" has extremely similar shape to the rollcage (most of it). Also can you find a rally where Yaris had nr. 17 on and rolled? (and the rally was in autumn) Why would you put number on in testing?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Norm75 View Post
    And the number in the rear side window?
    Newsflash: there is no number on the side window.
    ku ois neljä pyörää ku vetäis ni ois vähän eri sekunnit kyllä pätkillä, sen mä takaan

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    There weren`t "Panasonic" stickers on the front aero in 2017, nor was there such kind of aero in 2017, visible on this picture.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mknight View Post
    The "number" has extremely similar shape to the rollcage (most of it). Also can you find a rally where Yaris had nr. 17 on and rolled? (and the rally was in autumn) Why would you put number on in testing?
    Yes after studying the picture I too think it is probably the roll cage visible through the window. Also, Toyota race numbers are orange, what looks like 17 is white or silver.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AnttiL View Post
    The official press kit had pictures of Meeke driving the Yaris with the All Live sticker on windscreen. I presume those were taken yesterday or some days before, which is also when the crash happened with the All Live sticker. In the crash the windscreen got broken, and was changed into a windscreen without All Live sticker, and this is the car Meeke drove today.

    I think the team has asked for the rally enthusiasts watching the test not to say anything about the crash, but the tractor driver hasn't heard of this and uploaded the picture casually to facebook or something, where someone has found it and put it circulating.
    LOL Toyota has become the Area 51 of rallying. Unless they only had like 3 guys watching the tests, I'm pretty sure more info would leak in the next few days if Kris really crashed the car. It would be difficult to prevent such news.

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    Mikkelsen rolled the I20 on the Portugal test in 2017 and no picture or vid ever came out, neither was there any confirmation from any of the parties involved.

    Here we have
    - picture of a rolled car where the stickers match those used on the test and the autumn leafs match those on other pictures from the test
    - pictures of a car with different windscreen and damaged roof afterwards
    - silence from Toyota and Meeke about the picture being "fake"

    So Occam's razor.... which explanation is more likely
    a) He rolled and they don't want any publicity around it
    b) Someone created a very good fake picture that fits + Toyota changed the stickers/windscreen from one day to next + Toyota for some reason damaged the roof of the car going into the next day
    https://tuomastoyryralli.kuvat.fi/ku...8/IMG_7706.JPG
    https://tuomastoyryralli.kuvat.fi/ku...8/IMG_7709.JPG

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    Quote Originally Posted by mknight View Post
    Mikkelsen rolled the I20 on the Portugal test in 2017 and no picture or vid ever came out, neither was there any confirmation from any of the parties involved.

    Here we have
    - picture of a rolled car where the stickers match those used on the test and the autumn leafs match those on other pictures from the test
    - pictures of a car with different windscreen and damaged roof afterwards
    - silence from Toyota and Meeke about the picture being "fake"

    So Occam's razor.... which explanation is more likely
    a) He rolled and they don't want any publicity around it
    b) Someone created a very good fake picture that fits + Toyota changed the stickers/windscreen from one day to next + Toyota for some reason damaged the roof of the car going into the next day
    https://tuomastoyryralli.kuvat.fi/ku...8/IMG_7706.JPG
    https://tuomastoyryralli.kuvat.fi/ku...8/IMG_7709.JPG
    a)
    "With that car, your brain can actually never keep up"
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4IRMYuE1hI

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    At the end of the day... who cares... And even if it's him, what's wrong with that? It can happen, especially to him who his crash prone. There's nothing special if you think about it.

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