[WRC] Ardeca Ypres Rally 2022

[TypeR]

Hards. Only Oliver on softs

Okay, then just fast

[pantealex]

Kalle was biggest favorite in Finland but Ott did Win, so maybe Elfyn wins Ypres ?

[AnttiL]

Nice civilised time for the SD for a change.

Ypres tradition to have it on Thursday evening, from the days when the rally started on Friday evening

[AnttiL]

All Fords seem slow.

[AnttiL]

Lefebvre with a great time

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Lefebvre with a great time

No surprise, seen him show great speed in the BRC this season.

[Rallyper]

Pickems closing is 10.00 CEST Friday.

[Eli]

If Hyundai holds together, wouldn't bet against Neuville in this rally.

/he doesn't make a stupid mistake/weather goes his way.

[EstWRC]

Evans full 10 seconds faster on second pass than on first one

E: Kalle almost 12 secs faster

[Sergiow]

If Hyundai holds together, wouldn't bet against Neuville in this rally.

Interesting comments from Toyota technical director Tom Fowler about Neuville:

“I mean Thierry obviously knew all the tricks of Ypres last year,” he told DirtFish. “That was clear that he had a few tricks when we analyzed what he was up to during the race.” But when pushed about what ‘tricks’ Neuville was able to pull off exactly, Fowler confessed the nature of the rally makes it difficult to master, something the Hyundai driver was able to figure out better than his rivals.

“I think one of the things is it looks very same-y as a rally, and it’s easy to be drawn into ‘ah every corner’s the same’, which it is from a TV point-of-view,” he said.

“But when you look into the detail technically, what you need to do stage by stage, there’s more to it than that actually.

“And Thierry knew that and of course told some of his team that.”

https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/should-neuville-be-feared-in-ypres/