Sata Rally Açores 2012

[RS]

I thought the second dioroma was inaccurate because it seemed to show a Eurosport camera filming a car with sponsorship from a non-paying tyre supplier!

Don't understand. They have shown Mikkelsen and Gardemeister in the past.

[mousti]

Tyre supplier who's not entered is filmed but the logo is not being seen on results chart.

Eurosport even sponsored Mikkelsen in the Fiesta.

[uranium]

He didn't stand a hope in hell of beating Hanninen and Mikkelsen on gravel with an old Peugeot so 3rd was the maximum possible result.

Just curious, what is wrong with the Peugeout? Lesser power or torque? Where is so big gap in compare to Skoda?
For me it looks like a way to find excuse - our car is too old.

[dimviii]

Just curious, what is wrong with the Peugeout? Lesser power or torque? Where is so big gap in compare to Skoda?
For me it looks like a way to find excuse - our car is too old.

Skoda seems to be more serious about s2000.Big gap at drivers too.

[RS]

Just curious, what is wrong with the Peugeout? Lesser power or torque? Where is so big gap in compare to Skoda?
For me it looks like a way to find excuse - our car is too old.

Well I am sure Mirek will give a more accurate answer, however for starters the Delta cars are not the latest evo compared to the factory Fabias of Hanninen and Mikkelsen and the Fabia always seems to have had a traction advantage on gravel compared to the 207.

You could see on the onboards from Azores that driving the Peugeots just seemed 'hardwork' in comparison.

The Skoda really has incredible exit speeds from the slow corners, even on this muddy service. I think the Skoda must have a big lowdown torque advantage.

[Mirek]

It's complex problem. For sure here the main difference is that those private cars can hardly match the works ones. That's pure fact. Also Andreas and Juho are faster drivers on gravel than Bryand and Bruno, that's second point. And the third is that Škoda usually has had an upper hand over Peugeot on loose and rough surface - that was already mentioned and I agree that it's mostly about traction and suspension.

[[Madeira-Rally]]

The cars from Delta Rally were from Peugeot Portugal last year... so, it was the "same" car for Bruno...

[RICARDO75]

]The cars from Delta Rally were from Peugeot Portugal last year... so, it was the "same" car for Bruno...

You'r wrong

[tolis]

Inside IRC: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ0O4_Kajho

[Francis44]

]The cars from Delta Rally were from Peugeot Portugal last year... so, it was the "same" car for Bruno...

The cars were sold to Delta Rally but the ones used in Açores were different units, in fact Bruno's was 2009 spec and Bryan's 2010 spec.