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    There was big pressure on Breen on Monte.

    He was finally team leader and all of M-Sport's hard work was on his shoulders. Plus on a tricky rally and which he hadn't done for years and had a big PET crash.

    3rd behind the legendary Monte Masters was a great result.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC View Post
    There was big pressure on Breen on Monte.

    He was finally team leader and all of M-Sport's hard work was on his shoulders. Plus on a tricky rally and which he hadn't done for years and had a big PET crash.

    3rd behind the legendary Monte Masters was a great result.
    Still, I was expecting a bit more speed. At least in some flashes, did I overlook something?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mackie View Post
    Still, I was expecting a bit more speed. At least in some flashes, did I overlook something?
    The one thing about Breen's pace was that it was solid, consistent if you like, and never that far off the leading time. On the other hand, you had Greensmith setting a stupendous time on one stage and then going way off on two or three stages thereafter. Breen will be what Thierry Neuville is to Hyundai. Solid, quick and reliable.
    Last edited by 240RS; 25th January 2022 at 10:35.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 240RS View Post
    The one thing about Breen's pace was that it was solid, consistent if you like, and never that far off the leading time. On the other hand, you had Greensmith setting a stupendous time on one stage and then going way off on two or three stages thereafter. Breen will be what Thierry Neuville is to Hyundai. Solid, quick and reliable.
    Not yet. Thierry Neuville can set outrageous stage wins, set the most fastest times in a rally or come back on a power stage even if the rest of the rally went badly. We still need an extra top gear from Breen and we surely didn't see that in Monte. OK, it's a good solid performance from a difficult rally, but the conditions were easier than usually and he was way off the fastest time on the power stage (team decision?).

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    https://www.rallit.fi/wrc-tahdelta-p...nousua-edelle/

    According to this Breen said he deliberately wanted to be slow on the power stage so Kalle would have to open the road in Sweden.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AnttiL View Post
    https://www.rallit.fi/wrc-tahdelta-p...nousua-edelle/

    According to this Breen said he deliberately wanted to be slow on the power stage so Kalle would have to open the road in Sweden.
    Good tactic actually.

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    Quote Originally Posted by er88 View Post
    Good tactic actually.
    Not if you lose the championship by two points.

    Is second on the road that much better than first? Well maybe if there's fresh snowfall but in normal conditions it shouldn't be that big difference.

    I would have understood it better if next rally was Mexico or Sardegna.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AnttiL View Post
    Not if you lose the championship by two points.

    Is second on the road that much better than first? Well maybe if there's fresh snowfall but in normal conditions it shouldn't be that big difference.

    I would have understood it better if next rally was Mexico or Sardegna.
    Opening the road has been so difficult for Ogier there since 2017, Neuville also struggled without snow in 2020. Maybe that's Msports thinking?

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    Rovanpera is the on paper favourite for Sweden, so throwing the ball in his court is good thinking from Breen, considering Finland 2021.

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    Don’t really think we can evaluate the impact of the road position at this early stage of season.
    All the more with the 7-out-of-8 serie of gravel rallies between Portugal and New Zealand.
    Too much things to take into consideration to say it has a real impact (ok, maybe he will do better in Sweden, but it means he will have more points after that and maybe a worst road position in a gravel rally than what he should have if he did an average result in Sweden). So, even losing the championship by two points in the end does not mean than you lose it in this power stage in Monte Carlo because all this road position stuff recalculates all during the season.

    Personnally, I think these little tricks have no interest before round 10 of the season, all the more with the last 2 rallies being tarmac now (good decision by the FIA and promoter on that point to avoid road position to have an impact on the final rounds; only pure performance).

    + road position in Sweden is not always that simple, depending on the weather.

    Also, with Ogier’s retirement, I think an other additional tarmac even instead of a gravel on (replacing Sardinia by San Remo for example) would make sense.
    Last edited by Danny0405; 25th January 2022 at 14:40.

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