[WRC] Vodafone Rally de Portugal 2019

[dimviii]

What looked to be a winning rally for Ole Christian Veiby and co-driver Jonas Andersson, came to a sudden stop when the duo was forced to retire from SS10 on Saturday, after a dramatic fire in their car. – We were on full speed on the stage when I thought I could smell smoke inside the car. I asked Jonas if he could smell it, and he confirmed. Suddenly I saw flames in the mirror, from the back of the car, and then we had to stop. Fortunately there firemen with extinguishers on duty where we stopped, and they quickly got the flames under control.

https://ocveiby.com/drama-for-veiby-...-up-in-flames/

[mknight]

Didn’t Latvala have a bad landing from a jump which broke his damper?

Anyway, I don’t know who you would replace him with at this stage unless Tommi/Toyota are willing to put up with a year or two of ‘learning’ for Kalle.

They mentioned the bad landing on Allive, but nothing in the evening highlights and Latvala's onboard is not on yet. Until then it's impossible to say the exact reason for this retirement.

I wouldn't replace him this season, as you mention there is no clearly better replacement at the moment and honestly the mid-season replacements are imo quite retarded in many ways. Before this season I wrote here that it might work very well at Toyota with the two "risky" drivers, when one has issues/crashes the other one will still charge for top positions. But in the 6 rallies so far they both have 0 podiums cause they typically both have an issue, Portugal is the first one out of 7 where it might work. It is quite possible that JML will get some good result in rest of the season, just like he did last year. But as was mentioned multiple times it's not like he is far behind every rally, but there just isn't any consistency at all, and that should be a problem for any teamboss. In 2017 when he was clear n1 with zero pressure he did extremely well though.

Therefore next year is a different matter and a lot of drivers don't have a contract (in fact I think only Ogier, Lappi, Neuville and Loeb (limited) have ). Out of these Evans clearly stands out as a stable points scorer which would definitely help a lot in manu champs. As a bonus he is good at fixing cars which might come handy at Toyota. If MSport don't get Tanak I think they might be interested in getting JML as a number1 for 1 year to see if he gets back to 2017 form. Staying at Toyota doesn't not promise anything good for JML judging by 2018 and 2019.... unless Tanak leaves to MSport. Then it might work just like written on previous page.

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@those people saying Latvala does not have a bad season.... get some really thick glasses. By every measure of results or performance he has extremely bad season, be it driver points, manu points, rally lead, stage wins, best result. The only rally where he had same speed as at end of 2018 was Sweden (and here until the retirement).

[wrc2017]

They mentioned the bad landing on Allive, but nothing in the evening highlights and Latvala's onboard is not on yet. Until then it's impossible to say the exact reason for this retirement.

I wouldn't replace him this season, as you mention there is no clearly better replacement at the moment and honestly the mid-season replacements are imo quite retarded in many ways. Before this season I wrote here that it might work very well at Toyota with the two "risky" drivers, when one has issues/crashes the other one will still charge for top positions. But in the 6 rallies so far they both have 0 podiums cause they typically both have an issue, Portugal is the first one out of 7 where it might work. It is quite possible that JML will get some good result in rest of the season, just like he did last year. But as was mentioned multiple times it's not like he is far behind every rally, but there just isn't any consistency at all, and that should be a problem for any teamboss. In 2017 when he was clear n1 with zero pressure he did extremely well though.

Therefore next year is a different matter and a lot of drivers don't have a contract (in fact I think only Ogier, Lappi, Neuville and Loeb (limited) have ). Out of these Evans clearly stands out as a stable points scorer which would definitely help a lot in manu champs. As a bonus he is good at fixing cars which might come handy at Toyota. If MSport don't get Tanak I think they might be interested in getting JML as a number1 for 1 year to see if he gets back to 2017 form. Staying at Toyota doesn't not promise anything good for JML judging by 2018 and 2019.... unless Tanak leaves to MSport. Then it might work just like written on previous page.

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@those people saying Latvala does not have a bad season.... get some really thick glasses. By every measure of results or performance he has extremely bad season, be it driver points, manu points, rally lead, stage wins, best result. The only rally where he had same speed as at end of 2018 was Sweden.

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[RS]

What looked to be a winning rally for Ole Christian Veiby and co-driver Jonas Andersson, came to a sudden stop when the duo was forced to retire from SS10 on Saturday, after a dramatic fire in their car. – We were on full speed on the stage when I thought I could smell smoke inside the car. I asked Jonas if he could smell it, and he confirmed. Suddenly I saw flames in the mirror, from the back of the car, and then we had to stop. Fortunately there firemen with extinguishers on duty where we stopped, and they quickly got the flames under control.

https://ocveiby.com/drama-for-veiby-...-up-in-flames/

Sounds like he may be considering pulling the Sardinia entry.

[AnttiL]

https://twitter.com/MundialdeRallys/...50165985550336

Tänak going wide on Amarante

[dimviii]

https://twitter.com/MundialdeRallys/...50165985550336

Tänak going wide on Amarante

so this is the reason that damper broke,and not the fragile superlight constraction of yaris suspension

[Tauri_J]

no, he said it broke before the off

[EstWRC]

so this is the reason that damper broke,and not the fragile superlight constraction of yaris suspension

It was already broken here.

[EstWRC]

#Tyre info - Day 3

All the Michelin @OfficialWRC drivers with 5 MICHELIN LTX Force M6 (Medium) except @thierryneuville with 4M6 + 1H4

#MichelinWRC #RallyPortugal

[wrc2017]

#Tyre info - Day 3

All the Michelin @OfficialWRC drivers with 5 MICHELIN LTX Force M6 (Medium) except @thierryneuville with 4M6 + 1H4

#MichelinWRC #RallyPortugal

Neuville may be at a disadvantage? Whay would he carry a hard tyre unless he had to? Looks like others have 5 new mediums they can rotate.