WRC Rally Mexico 2019

[lnvs]

It's twice wider that Suninen on SS2. That rally org's just pure sick dogs for red-flagging that stage because of this

Lappi had rear in the bushes. Could be fire hazard.

After what Latvala did for Meeke it's stupid to cry for tactics.

[Mirek]

That is technically possible but events would have unravelled differently. Firstly, failure to press OK within one minute of stopping would have activated the same emergency stage stop procedure as if they had themselves pressed the SOS on FIA Safety Tracking Device. Eg, stage would have been stopped, not red flagged. Also, how Lappi would have known it soon enough not to press it because that would have been his first instinct after getting stuck and before even calling the team on radio (and hear about Ogier's problems). No, that doesn't stand water.

You're right. Maybe we'll never know... and maybe nothing like that happend at all.

[denkimi]

it is very weird that the stage was red flagged because of lappi's off. they could have pulled him out within minutes and restarted the stage without any issues.

[Ds3]

Now some Barca football...

Do you mind Barca ....?

[N.O.T]

how close is Salamanca to the rally ? its in the same region as the rally

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world...laya-nightclub

Its quite close tot he area of the stages actually... about 100kms from leon and far closer to some of the stages..

nice job FIA... nice job.

can we please get rid of this rally run in an oversized cartel and move it to a real country ???

[er88]

Of course speculation, but i think Citroen have gone "full sick dog" mode here when they saw the worsening splits of Ogier vs Meeke. And also, Budar was very quick on the attack when interviewed after Lappi went off, saying it was Toyota who were the ones playing games and tactics with Jari starting late.

Citroen/ Ogier should be excluded if they've done what's been speculated. There's a difference between "tactics within the rules" like starting someone on super rally late, to outright cheating by red flagging a stage when there's no reason to. And there wasn't a reason to red flag it, nevermind how strange the timing of it was. Do it straight away or not at all - Ogier was the ONLY relevant WRC car left to finish the stage when it got red flagged....

At least Molly and the others should have some interesting questions to ask for once in the media zone/service coming up

[KKS]

I think FIA will soon introduce a rule that would say that any car in superrally that takes timepenalties (no matter the cause) will loose any powerstage and manu points. That might have some effect. Else this thing will be with us the whole season.

oh man, stop that bullshit

[T16]

Or maybe Meeke was talking about Latvala dropping down the order, and not the red flag at all.

Or maybe he was just bitter after the puncture and saying things he'll regret.

Latvala isn’t a Citroen driver though.

[Tauri_J]

how close is Salamanca to the rally ? its in the same region as the rally

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world...laya-nightclub

around 100km

[Morte66]

Latvala isn’t a Citroen driver though.

Oh, you're right. Don't know what I was thinking of...