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2nd June 2019, 20:18 #1081
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Ogier gets all the hate simply because he is the CHAMP!
How would you feel after plenty of seasons opening the road on most gravel events?! Im willing to bet, without even looking at the stats, that in the seasons where we had championship order on first day Ogier was likely starting first on 70% of the races. It would drive anyone mad.
Here in Portugal it was actually not that bad but in certain rallys (Sardinia, Catalunya) you are almost guareented to be out of contention on 3 bloody stages.
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2nd June 2019, 20:22 #1082
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When Sordo will be asked and will deny this ,who are we going to believe?
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2nd June 2019, 20:24 #1083
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Full denial or silence, he wants to drive a WRCar. This is just something that will stay in the air I think.
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2nd June 2019, 20:26 #1084
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Sordo will say no comment for sure. Personally for me it's like 50 / 50. But I don't think Adamo would "order" Sordo, just ask if he was ok with it.
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2nd June 2019, 20:34 #1085
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2nd June 2019, 20:34 #1086
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Q:
On the Power Stage today, it appeared that you were faster that Sébastien Ogier. Did you slow towards the end?
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It was a long story. The Power Stage was a long one. At first, we were thinking about the strategy a little and we thought that every point would be important at the end of the year. We were going to be three ahead of Seb without the Power Stage points. I thought that I should be faster than him. The plan was to collect as many points as possible but Kris made his mistake and that changed everything. Seb was on the podium and we were on the same level on points. I knew I needed to be a bit slower to avoid opening the road in Sardinia. Then Thierry got in between us and I lost another point.
the rest https://www.fia.com/news/wrc-o-tanak...s-i-have-taken#8 Ott Tänak - Martin Järveoja #8
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2nd June 2019, 20:36 #1087
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Ogier's road-order tactics were just to help himself where he felt 'hard done by'. His Sweden snow-ploughing had reduced him to 10th place !
M-Sport only used team-orders to drop their own driver(s) back to increase the points scored by their No.1.
None of these were to deliberately disadvantage an opponent, like Hyundai did here (and Adamo wanted to do even worse).#M-SPORTER
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2nd June 2019, 20:39 #1088
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2nd June 2019, 20:41 #1089
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Looking at Meeke spin on the power stage, you have to have some sympathy for him. The tree stump was getting more exposed with each car, otherwise he would habe had it in his pacenotes, and he commited to the angle of attack well before the apex, and most likely the wheel was open, and just snagged the tree stump. Tough one, he maybe was cutting too much, but very fine margins. Dont think he should be too disheartened. He was only 2s off the lead couple of hours earlier. Strong performance, and glad to see him up with top 3 again.
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2nd June 2019, 20:43 #1090
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And we are back in 2018.... Eddie saying how Ogier "had to" do what he did, cause he felt bad.....anyway that's not what we are talking about.
This year (2019) in Sweden Ogier did exactly the same thing as Hyundai did here.
He drove on purpose after Neuville/Loeb and before Lappi... to disadvantage Neuville/Loeb (less roadcleaning) and give advantage Lappi (more road cleaning). 100% exactly same situation.
Only solution is more teams. Everything else is a temporary bandage that won't change anything in the long run.
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