WRC Croatia Rally 2021

[PLuto]

about Suninen imho i dont think that he is doing well.
He is not same fast as Ostberg/Gryazin,and he did the mistake under pressure.
When you are a wrc regular,thats not a good or ''ok'' result
If i was his manager i wouldnt be happy,as the target was to show fiesta r5 speed,and we clearly see that c3 and polo are faster.
Mikkelsen a bigger dissapointment too.

Did you followed stage times or you are only watching standings after SS 16?

[Mirek]

It's nice to see quite a proper Sunday with 80 km of stages.

[dimviii]

Ogier wheel change... oops !

https://twitter.com/mmalcevic/status...167245830?s=20

just imagine that he was working at suspension settings,or fixing repairing something...

[itix]

because he struggled with the R5 car in the past and the speed hasnt been the best, i definitely didnt expect him to run away

Team bosses always say a lot of things.

E: what Pluto said

Suninen is +- on pace of Ostberg and Gryazin. He lost yesterday about 40 with ditch excursion on SS 4 and also has 10 sec penalty. For me he is one of the biggest surprises of this rally.

I mean, if we take away his off road excursion of 40s he's still 20 seconds off the lead which is a lot in a tarmac rally.

Gryazin isn't blazingly fast normally and Østberg has respectable pace in RC1 machinery. So I'd expect him to be at least level with Østberg (and Østberg being Mr consistent has likely been safeing after Gryazins mishaps).

When Ogier was forced to run in S2000 machinery he was running away with every single rally and even mixing it in with RC1 machinery at the time.

Mikkelsen usually runs away compared to other RC2 as well (and why he doesn't here is a mystery to me).

We know Sunninen on good days can have rally winning pace in not very up to date Msport cars so I'm surprised he isn't quicker. That's my take, but hey. I'm not going to argue. I have been wrong before

[dimviii]

Did you followed stage times or you are only watching standings after SS 16?

of course i followed every stage.

[itix]

just imagine that he was working at suspension settings,or fixing repairing something...

Hopefully they are smart enough to to shove the spare tyre underneath if they have to go under the car. I would never work on something propped up by one jack with a tiny base like theirs.

[Mirek]

I mean, if we take away his off road excursion of 40s he's still 20 seconds off the lead which is a lot in a tarmac rally.

He has a 10 seconds penalty

But anyway this "if" scenario is always tricky. Ostberg didn't need to push after Gryazin lost time with the power steering and by pure speed Gryazin was likely the fastest. In the end what matters is the result in finish.

[dimviii]

Pierre-Louis Loubet
@PL_Loubet

Our first mistake of the weekend, no matter how small, forces us to retire for today
Disappointed face
The car has nothing but we couldn't get out of the ditch. We will analyze with the team what could have happened because at the moment I do not understand ... #WRC

[Mirek]

Pierre-Louis Loubet
@PL_Loubet

Our first mistake of the weekend, no matter how small, forces us to retire for today
Disappointed face
The car has nothing but we couldn't get out of the ditch. We will analyze with the team what could have happened because at the moment I do not understand ... #WRC

That was a pretty high speed off. The fact that the car was not damaged is nothing but luck.

That it looked weird I agree.

[Eli]

It's nice to see quite a proper Sunday with 80 km of stages.

Yes indeed, finally! next step, getting back to 350Km's of stages