(ERC) 2011 Rally de Valais

[stepunk]

And what about Crugnola?

[HaCo]

And what about Crugnola?

Does an excellent job!

Rox slower than Solowow???

[Tom206wrc]

And what about Crugnola?

If you update to SS3, you see Crugnola is about 20" BEHIND Neuville :

Indeed excellent job in the Clio R3 Cup for the youg italian

[Tom206wrc]

Also in the Citroën Racing Trophy excellent battle between the french driver Frédéric Comte and the local Antonio Galli
With Jürg Strasser and Sébastien Chardonnet not far behind(after SS2)

[Mirek]

Rosetti is loosing some time on second stage, Gonon is taking overall lead. Great performance sofar by Neuville, sixth overall.

How come Gonon could win stage? Either drivers had very different tyre choice or there is a lot of snow on this stage (production cars need't use wide tyres).

[stepunk]

If you update to SS3, you see Crugnola is about 20" BEHIND Neuville :

You're right Tom, but I was so surprised that he could beat an high rated driver like Neuville on his first special stage outside Italy!

Anyway the results are somewhat "strange", maybe it's because of the tyre choice!

[Mirek]

According to Pluto roads are mostly dry. Otherwise he said news mostly about some Czech crews. Minařík rolled on shakedown and Černý had technical problems with some sensor. Polish driver Ruta also had technical problems with power steering and transmission.

[PLuto]

Andrea Crugnola is good driver, look at his times on Antibes this year (he done only SS 3, 4 and 5)...

[PLuto]

Photogallery from first day of Valais - http://www.autosport.cz/clanek.php?cl=11273

[Mirek]

SMS from PLuto: SS5 massacre. First 8 and last 11 km dry, the rest changeble and tricky mix of wet, snow, ice and gravel. Temperature -2 down the valley, +2 up in the mountains.