[WRC] Rallye Monte Carlo 2022

[René]

Finally, when we look at the ranking tonight, there are 17 world championships ahead and the rest behind. Nothing illogical!

[doubled1978]

Quite a few shockers this evening, and Loeb being 2nd isn't even one of them.

- Fastest Hyundai 6th ( not that much of a shocker)
- Breen slowest Puma
- Rovanpera slowest WRC, behind R5s (definitely biggest (bad) surprise)

I think Breen was being a little cautious tonight, not entirely a surprise all things considered.
Rovanpera’s comment about not being able to cope with understeer is a bit of a worry.

[mknight]

Rovanpera’s comment about not being able to cope with understeer is a bit of a worry.

Yes he sounded quite hopeless.
He drove the Fabia R5 a lot though and that one supposedly has understeering nature. Hopefully he can adapt.

[Sulland]

A bit of showmanship cost young Solberg there?!

What did he do?

[MentalParadox]

What did he do?

Half-spin at the peak of Turini.

[AnttiL]

Last night I was speechless.

The two retired Sebs, awesome, especially for Loeb to just come from Dakar and a year off WRC. And we were ready to write him off after the Hyundai years.

The Fords were amazing, I'm so happy to see them back at the pace. And nice to see Greensmith so high on the stage times although he had different tyres. In fact Breen was slightly disappointing by being the slowest one. Fourmaux doing more or less what I expected.

As for Toyota, it seems the car is fast but doesn't fit Kalle's driving style. As he said at the end of SS2 it understeers and it's difficult for him. Hopefully he can learn to change his style quickly (as he has done before) or they can do something about the setup (now with no centre diff it's difficult to make changes). Also interesting that they've agreed to do the whole year with that diff setup that's so hard for him, the must have noticed this time loss on the tests? But apparently it fits Elfyn (and Seb) better. Based on what happened with Citroen in 2019, this setup will not fit Esapekka.

Hyundais...they were the slowest but then again all cars had issues. Hopefully they can get the package together, shakedown pace was promising but like I said, it was a very slow stage so it didn't tell anything about corners with higher speed, long straights, big accelerations and brakings.

And finally, none of the cars retired! And Rally2 cars didn't win stages!

PS: I won a beer from Miika Wuorela because back in May (when Compact Dynamics pulled back their hybrid units from tests) he wanted to bet big money on Rally1 hybrid cars not happening in 2022. I agreed but I said I never gamble on bigger bets than "a beer" so that's what we agreed on.

[cali]

Miika now been proven wrong on many cases he predicted

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[EstWRC]

Don’t get your hopes high with Hyundai Antti

Tänak saying to Estonian media that the car just isn’t ready yet and they knew that coming to Monte and he is happy that he survived yesterday. Also says that there’s lack of parts and they can’t set the car like they want to for such a dry monte. Hoped they can fix the bigger problems overnight and keep the car going to get the data

Gonna be another tough year for Estonians i guess

[AnttiL]

Yeah, just saying that we don't yet know the performance of the car since they all had some issues.

They could also have the same lack of spare parts as Suninen mentioned about the Rally2 car, the pandemic makes everything slower. For example, getting spare derailleurs for normal bikes has been difficult, everything is sold out and warehouse stocks empty. I can only imagine how it is for something more specialized.

[TypeR]

The lack of parts etc sound a bit bs.. One of the biggest car manus in the world and can't set up/build 3-5 race cars + spare parts?

It's not like they have to build tens of them every week.

Tänak: ,,We cannot be completely disappointed with the first day. We made it through both stages.''

That can't be what he or any champion racedriver really thinks..
It's a disaster tbh.

Impressive how they keep themselves motivated. Let's only hope they can(all Hyundais) recover and get their stuff together in the team.