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    Quote Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC View Post
    Surely there should be tyres able to better withstand these rough rallies ?

    It would be good to see driver's able to test their speed and car set-up and suspension here, rather than mainly who can best protect their tyres...
    I agree.. of course you are always going to get more punctures on an event such as this but here (and in Portugal WRC2) it was excessive, and I fear the same again in Cyprus and Sardinia.

    Maybe someone can tell us, do they really use the same tyres here as they would use in Finland, or New Zealand for example?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC View Post
    Surely there should be tyres able to better withstand these rough rallies ?

    It would be good to see driver's able to test their speed and car set-up and suspension here, rather than mainly who can best protect their tyres...
    Anything is possible but there is one principal issue with that - without proper involvement of the works teams tyre manufacturers won't bother to prepare anything special. But people are calling for ERC to be a privateer championship and that simply means that the teams are bound to use what is possible to buy from the shelf.

    That's why I also think that it would be good for the organizers to rethink the route and consider skipping some of the roughest sections. The works teams can cope with that for sure (remember Škoda Dakar-like setups for IRC Rally Sibiu for example) but for the privateers it's more or less an expensive lottery.
    Stupid is as stupid does. Forrest Gump

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    Quote Originally Posted by RS View Post
    Maybe someone can tell us, do they really use the same tyres here as they would use in Finland, or New Zealand for example?
    Actually there are no other options. You have few tires to choose from, and have to figure out how to survive in different conditions.

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    The experience of Magalhaes paid off here re tyres and the others need to learn the lesson.

    Luky was also trying to be more careful with the tyres and slowed down, but maybe this caused another problem - a drop in concentration...
    Last edited by Fast Eddie WRC; 4th June 2018 at 12:20.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lehus View Post
    Actually there are no other options. You have few tires to choose from, and have to figure out how to survive in different conditions.
    Congrats fr your pass at 13,2 km of Thiva.
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    EE36A999-3F40-444E-BA17-90E1DC121758.jpg

    These are two pics I took from Acropolis Rally. First is from SS Grammeni an second from SS Amfissa.
    Last edited by bomber21; 6th June 2018 at 21:58.

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    Putting aside that our exclusion from the calendar was fair, where the .... was he, the years before to write just even one sentence about the event. I hate this kind of media, they appear only when they smell pain and loss...

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