Quote Originally Posted by dimviii View Post
the discussion was something different.
Some mates insist that Ogier knew from onboards,that he can take some more risks at some corners,because he knew that if he gets out of road,there will be no damage due to ''safe'' landing at these corners.

This it totally stupid,and different from the article i posted.
Why its stupid, i have explained many times.
Ogier insisted that himself:

This is Ogier's quote (from ewrc-results)
"We knew it was an open area but I wasn't expecting so much dirt on the road. On the winter tyre we understeered. Okay, I could take a risk there because I knew it was only a field on the outside. I had to try and do a bit more here"

You accused Ogier of lying cause he could not possibly remember it was "safe" to go outside there. Right now you repeated that, even when Loeb says that drivers now remember every corner and perfect their lines trough it.

Anyone who watches 2-3 onboards of same stage will start to remember the corners. Now for the WRC drivers they drive 2 times in recce, watch the recce vids in the evening and watch the onboards before each leg + all the time watching between rallies. This is on stages that are often run over and over again every year with some small changes. On top of that this is a stage a few kms from Ogier's hometown.

Surely if you remember a corner you can also remember if there is trees, ravine, concrete wall or open field on the outside. Off course that does not mean it's "perfectly" safe to go there, there can be hiding rocks etc, but it's clearly safer than on quite a few other corners.

Btw. there is an example of a "known" blind cut over a jump in Sardinia where Breen hit a rock in 2017 (and broke gearbox) while every other driver avoided it cause they drove the stage before and remembered it jumping further out.
There is even a vid of that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIprw5JPaSw