RACC Rally Catalunya 2018

[dimviii]

641/5000
"In terms of scanning, the second loop is sometimes worse than the first because there was a trace, but clearly not our trajectory to us.I made a small mistake this morning by going a bit wide in a field, to Apart from that I gave everything like Thierry, I can not do much more The Toyota works well It's time to fight, not yet the moment to be worried There are two days left, I'm not personally only 12 seconds from second place, the goal is naturally to go up the rankings, the difficult weather could create opportunities, "analyzed the reigning world champion.
https://www.rtbf.be/sport/moteurs/ra...et?id=10057691

[mknight]

agree. He see himself in wet dreams like a champion and that 'ugly' Toyota couldn't show all his potential. But actually man was overestimated

Lappi is 4th in the championship in his first full season and clearly the fastest of the "newer" drivers like Breen, Paddon, Evans, Suninen, for most of the season he has been beating Latvala both on pace and results. I am not really his fan but what you are spewing is just too much.

I also recall some estonian with rather uninspired pace + attitude on the last 3 rallies of 2017.

[dimviii]

Meeke at Toyota service
https://twitter.com/RallyingUK/statu...93428565917698

[dimviii]

Lappi
https://twitter.com/EpicRallyTribe/s...08431717167104

Suninen
https://twitter.com/pauruiz1993/stat...08483361632257

Block
https://twitter.com/motoraldia/statu...93458118942720

Skda mechanics watching polo
https://twitter.com/volkswagenms/sta...21388890296320

[Rally Power]

Another fantastic rally to follow on this epic WRC season! Tanak again on a class of his own; Sordo and Evans doing a superb job, just like the amazing Loeb. Hard work for Ogier and Neuville tomorrow, but the weather may speed up their recoveries to the top 3. Strong show from VW in WRC2, with a faultless Camilli (fingers crossed…) and an evergreen Solberg proving the Polo is already at the top.

Btw, huge congrats to Pedro Antunes/Paulo Lopes; they’ve won the 208 Iberica Cup and where the best R2 crew of the leg.

[Sulland]

First day impressive by VW!

I am guessing the sales reps in VW Motorsport has big smiles.
Many will try to buy Polo R5 for 2019, lets see how many they will build.

Lets see the speed on asphalt. But lomger wheelbase can mean less nervous car. Lets see later today.

[steve.mandzij]

Lappi is 4th in the championship in his first full season and clearly the fastest of the "newer" drivers like Breen, Paddon, Evans, Suninen, for most of the season he has been beating Latvala both on pace and results. I am not really his fan but what you are spewing is just too much.

I also recall some estonian with rather uninspired pace + attitude on the last 3 rallies of 2017.

But something has clearly got to him lately. Either someone's shit on his bed or he's got some confidence issues, but either way he's no longer cheery and blisteringly quick all the time, rather a little bitchy and struggling all the time.

[steve.mandzij]

A couple observations from Friday:

Well done Evans. Finally it seems the luck has stuck and he's (albeit not comfortably) third overnight for once! He had pretty good pace today, I hope he can keep it up and score a hard earned podium. It's unfortunate nobody at all has talked about it, probably my biggest surprise of the rally so far.

I think Latvala has stopped overthinking everything for once: being clean and tidy, copying his teammates' setups, focusing too hard on being consistent, and went completely balls to the wall like he knows best: sideways. It was just what he needed to do all year: drive as he was born to drive, let it flow naturally, and it's really been spectacular so far, despite the results not showing it. I hope Jari can keep his new old mentality for next year, so he can start a championship challenge as he did in 2017, as God intended: let everything happen as it should, and "everything will be in perfect balance", as he said today. His f-word tirade was just the icing on the cake of his really encouraging state of mind on Friday.

[mknight]

But something has clearly got to him lately. Either someone's shit on his bed or he's got some confidence issues, but either way he's no longer cheery and blisteringly quick all the time, rather a little bitchy and struggling all the time.

As I wrote, he totally reminds me of Tänak at the end of last year (GB and AU especially). He had ok speed but that last spark wasn't there and he often sounded even more bored/demotivated than usual.

[EstWRC]

Morning guys. Lappi just did a live on twitter and it didn’t look wet at service park. Don’t know about the stages, really waiting to see some pictures already.