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6th August 2022, 12:16 #351
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I think the difference is how much they push their luck. The likes of Loeb, Ogier or Rovanpera make fewer mistakes and when they do and get lucky it's quite obvious and seems unfair. The others make more mistakes, so the chance that they will find a big rock increases and eventually it happens.
Then there is also the theory that some supernatural rally luck moves from Loeb to Ogier to Rovanpera. We can obviously see the first two are not lucky anymore this year :P
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6th August 2022, 12:29 #352
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6th August 2022, 12:31 #353
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So Rovanperä isn't top tier _atm_? I'd say, he is exactly that. Of course things can change in the future, like with Tänak: next car after title isn't really fitting to your driving style and the next after that fits nobody basically.
Tänak is truly very fast on all surfaces and it's a shame the car is what it is. He also very rarely goes off nowadays. Usually it's punctures that drop him down the leaderboard. On the other hand, he couldn't get the i20 WRC to go well on tarmac (which hardly anybody else did either besides Neuville) so he ain't "all mighty".
Rovanperä ain't god either but he has already found the way to drive Rally 1 Yaris very fast without big risks. Something Evans hasn't been able to do. Kalle was also very fast to get the feeling with the 2017 cars on all surfaces. Seeing Rovanperä and Tänak on Toyota would be super interesting (except that Toyota would probably win every rally...). One can only dream... of course it would be interesting to see Neuville somewhere else than Hyundai as well. Could he take some kind of a next step with Toyota like Evans did back in 2020 and leave the mistakes to a minimum?
So with current full time drivers I'd say it's Rovanperä & Tänak as tier 1, Evans dropped to tier 2 with Rally 1 cars and Neuville is there with him. Breen just doesn't make it, unfortunately, he is tier 3. Then rest of the Fords are tier 4.
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6th August 2022, 12:34 #354
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Catching up with Breen incident stage this morning I see Katsuta had THREE mistakes on that stage and got away with them all ...
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6th August 2022, 12:45 #355
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c'mon, put that in context.
m-sport hired breen to get podiums. breen did first part of season cautious because of making mileage, lack of some rally experience, and so on. when millener ask for a push he doesn't mean win or bin. he mean it's time to get up aq notch and deliver podiums or podium-like performances.
remember there was people suggesting it was on same tier (or better) than tanak & neuville...
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6th August 2022, 12:55 #356
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^ Pre-event PR hype
“I understand that he’s trying to get the positions we want to see, but retirements are 10 times worse than anything else. So it’s frustrating.”
https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/breen...stake-m-sport/
^ On-event reality
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6th August 2022, 13:07 #357
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What an insane battle at the front ! Just pray the Hyundai doesn't let Tanak down eventually.
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6th August 2022, 13:08 #358
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6th August 2022, 13:09 #359
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And most importantly what a driving from top guys! Pure rallying heaven at the moment
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6th August 2022, 13:14 #360
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was playing v-rally 3 on my game boy advanced emulator here. such a fun game. some stages have reaaally fun elevation changes and some good scenery by the shore (i guess its the french event). you...
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