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Thread: Rally Sweden 2012
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12th February 2012, 22:58 #1691
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Finished watching 1 hour rally summary.
Close moments for Latvala, Hirvonen and a huge sideways slide by Solberg all from first two days that I didn't see before. Sordo, Tanak and Loeb going off all on same corner on day one (also new footage to me).
The puncture place today looked a bit weird. From Solbergs camera (on the left side of the car) it looked like the stone was just in the shadow between 2 sunny places, from Latvala's camera (on right side of the car) it didn't look so dark there. Anyway it was quite a strange place for a dangerous stone to be imo, on a relatively straight part (so can't see how it got dug out) and without any rocky hillsides (so it couldn't fall down).
Disclaimer: This is again not to start a conspiracy theory, just wouldn't expect it there.
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12th February 2012, 23:04 #1692
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Originally Posted by DonJippo
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12th February 2012, 23:05 #1693
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Originally Posted by ridder
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12th February 2012, 23:06 #1694
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Originally Posted by Viking
Tbh I don't really like the penalty, actually think it's too low and smells politics = FIA trying to be nice to Proton to keep the manufacturer interested.
Had this happened to a privateer he would be disqualified instantly. Many examples of that before.... Prokop in Argentina with worse brakes, Bryndilsen in UK, Solberg in France etc etc.
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12th February 2012, 23:12 #1695
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Originally Posted by DonJippo
How many fewer tires do you need befor it matter. 30% -50%.
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12th February 2012, 23:15 #1696
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Originally Posted by ridder
i am not in favor of Proton,but some times when some parts are under the car,can lost weight from rocks chipping the metal.As you saw they weighted new parts and they were ok.
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12th February 2012, 23:19 #1697
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Originally Posted by ridder
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12th February 2012, 23:34 #1698
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Originally Posted by dimviii
Anyway my point wasn't what is fair/unfair relative to the advantage gained. My point was that when it comes to privateers they get kicked out for anything, when it comes to teams the punishment is always milder in last few years. Last time some team got kicked was with Peugeots 206. Then Ford got just a time penalty for windows and Citroen even smaller time penalty for stabilizers.
Prokop in Argentina 2009 got disqualified for using year old 30 mm brake discs (allowed size was 28-30 mm in 2008), when newly from that year Evos were allowed to use only bigger 32 mm ones (to improve braking). So disqualified for using worse parts...
Bryndilsen in GB got disqualified for using smaller brake calipers.
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12th February 2012, 23:44 #1699
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you are right ridder.
just to mention that weight tolerances are given because of manufacture differencies is possible to have any spare part,casting or hand made.Of course Proton had to be inside these tolerances.
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12th February 2012, 23:45 #1700
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Originally Posted by ridder
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