[WRC] Monza Rally 2020

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WRCWings
@llluis555
Bad luck for @TakamotoKatsuta
and @danielbarritt
, today that they finally had the last evolution of the rear brake air intake. Hope tomorrow it will be better for them! #WRC #WRClive #WRCliveES #ACIRallyMonza

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Petter Solberg
@Petter_Solberg
Well that was fun!
Grinning face with smiling eyes
I got a call late last night about giving a passenger ride to Giuseppe Redaelli, President of the Monza Circuit, and it was an honour to do so! Very fun to give a WRC experience in the PA Racing ŠKODA Fabia

hope you enjoyed it Giuseppe!

[Co-driven]

Michelin posted tyre choice 1 minute ago now

Michelin #Tyre info - SS1

Toyota:
Ogier/Evans/Rovanperä/Katsuta: 4 MICHELIN Pilot Sport FW3

Hyundai
Tänak/Veiby: 5FW3
Neuville/Sordo: 4FW3

MSport:
Suninen/Lappi/Greensmith: 5FW3

Not related to the P1 drivers, but
Solberg had the Sottozero tyre, but no snow at all. I don't know other WRC2/WRC3 drivers, but could this be an attempt to try and see if these work better on muddy conditions than the full wets?

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https://youtu.be/hTeEjyJKJIQ

[Rally Power]

It’s heartbreaking to see WRC titles being decided on theses stages, no matter how ‘tricky’ they can get due to the weather or how much Porter & Co insist that they’re brilliant or fascinating.

Even if we can still have some decent action on Saturday, I really hope the series standings won’t change so that we can celebrate Evans and Martin as champs. After all, they were the best ones after the 6 proper Rallys of the season.

[focus206]

So you think it's better to be remembered as the guy that never won any championship?

No, but it's understandable to me that he values this championship less than last year's. Of course he'll try to win it if he has an improbable chance. But even Ogier said he'll stay for another year because this one didn't feel like a proper championship.

Yes, the season is short, but everybody has had same chances and somebody saying ,,wouldn't like'' such WDC title is just stupid..
Neuville is the one, who wants it the most.. nobody cares about hundred 2nd place trophies..

"it's not the right year to be champion. I discussed it with my manager and told him that I wouldn't be very proud to be crowned after a year like this."
To me it sounds like he said he simply values this championship less, not that he would refuse the trophy and the title because he doesn't like it, as you say.

Total rubbish mate. Sorry but whoever wins, deserves to win the championship, and it’s been the same for everyone, so you can keep your asterisk.

In the eventuality of Evans or Neuville winning their only title in 2020, rest assured that many will feel this way towards them in the future.
Should we not assign the title? We should. Wasn't Evans the best so far in 2020? He was. But the championship is what it is. Point is, I don't see why you are all losing your minds over some drivers who don't think that this year's championship is "just as good" as last year's.

[EstWRC]

After stage 1
@AciRallyMonza


SUPER BATTLE
@OfficialWRC
TITLE

EVANS 123 - OGIER 122

[doubled1978]

people can have different opinions

i know a lot of people for whom this title will be with asterisk no matter who wins it.

and then again i know people who share your opinion

They can of course, and normally I’m a guy who can accept both sides of an argument. But on this, I’m sorry I just think it’s total none sense to try and devalue a title through circumstances beyond anyone’s control, and it’s not like they are trying to award it after Mexico. The WEC only has 6/7 rounds, never heard anyone say that is not a WC worthy of the name.
My personal opinion is people are trying to use the global circumstances to justify why their favourite didn’t win...as has been said, Motorsport has always been about man and machine, so if your car breaks down it doesn’t mean you deserve to be champion. To this point Evans/Toyota have done the best job, so deserve the lead.
I couldn’t care less who wins the title, I just want it to be exciting, and from the look of the weather forecast, it should be.

[EstWRC]

[focus206]

When McRae won his title in 1995 there were only 8 Rounds.

Indeed, and who knows something about the 1995 season, knows that McRae was helped by the short season and by Sainz having to miss 1 of the 8 rounds. McRae's fame largely overshwadowed this in later years, but it's not that 1995 was such an odd season: in 1994 there were 10 rounds, in 1996 9 rounds. And in 1993, top drivers weren't yet competing for the full calendar, so 1st place Kankkunen ran 10 rounds, 2nd place Delecour 9 rounds. Not a big difference for that era.