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Thread: WRC Rally Mexico 2019
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11th March 2019, 17:27 #951
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11th March 2019, 17:53 #952
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With so few cars participating, it quickly becomes a boring rally when the tough roads and many punctures quickly depletes the field.
Maybe the current sprintrallt format, and advanced cars does not fit into the Mexico rally?
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11th March 2019, 17:54 #953
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Thierry Neuville
Gracias @RallyMexico !
This weekend was tough and challenging but your roads are amazing and it’s always a pleasure to come here ! See you next year !
#WRC #RallyMexico #HMSGOfficial #TN100 #NG https://t.co/OzQzOgtVbV
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11th March 2019, 18:30 #954
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Guys, Mexican roads are not that rough, almost no ruts on second passes, etc. For cars biggest challenge is altitude and temperature, which combined with some very steep uphill and slow sections makes it difficult for cooling...
It looks like that because of so few participants, you had only few non WRC cars, couple of R5s and even less 2wd... So even with few cars going into problems you quickly have 10 cars without issues.
Roads are really nice and challenging, it's really interesting and challenging for engineers to adapt the cars to the conditions, people are very friendly and passionate, and really loads of them, I'm not sure if any other round has so many, so passionate people in service park, for sure not on start/finish ceremony... OK, this year organization made couple of big mistakes, they were little bit unlucky also. In general organization level is maybe little bit worse than on some other rounds, but in European rounds you also have a lot of issues...
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11th March 2019, 19:25 #955
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11th March 2019, 19:28 #956
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The Mexico roads are indeed very smooth and firm compared to other technical gravel rallies of the season. Only the edges are sometimes ragged with stones, which could get pulled onto the line sometimes.
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11th March 2019, 19:35 #957
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11th March 2019, 20:38 #958
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Citroen can win manufacturers championship if they start driving with 3 cars!
Hope they do it as soon as possible! @MadsOstberg in 3rd car!
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11th March 2019, 22:25 #959
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Watched the Saturday SSSs. Didn't notice that Meeke lost 45s after crashing into a barrier when just looking at the results previously, same corner as Ogier had his moment right after.
Last edited by mknight; 11th March 2019 at 22:35.
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12th March 2019, 07:45 #960
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we see this more and more and I think it's utterly stupid. One small mistake that would normally make you lose a little like a bend wheel time will now completely ruin your rally because you can't...
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