Rally Wrc France-Alsace 2014

[nafpaktos]

His time on this stage (power stage)shows the opposite.i dont say he is the new seb i just say i would like him to take a chance since a lot of drivers in the past took chances they didint deserve.

[N.O.T]

If he wants a chance he has to pay...

His time in one stage means nothing.

By the way i really cannot see the reason why the FIA doesn't award points at the power stage for every class individually.... it is just stupid.

[Rally Power]

A chance in what ??? Sousa is a respectable tourist nothing more...

No tourist could beat Abbring on this year most epic ERC victory duel, like Sousa did in Açores!

Sousa was always a fast guy and finally his speed has become consistent.

Força Bernardo! Força Hugo!

[Mirek]

No tourist could beat Abbring on this year most epic ERC victory duel, like Sousa did in Açores!

You forgot some little details like that Abbring did two stages without power steering (in that moment he was leading by 35 seconds)...

[Rally Power]

You forgot some little details like that Abbring did two stages without power steering (in that moment he was leading by 35 seconds)...

...and you're forgetting the time Sousa lost by being first on the road at day 1.

No need to get excuses, it was a clean and well deserved victory!

[EightGear]

You forgot some little details like that Abbring did two stages without power steering (in that moment he was leading by 35 seconds)...

And a 10 second time penalty.

[N.O.T]

Nice to see that tourists have followers... a lonely tourist is a sad spectacle.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/519323...57626858800491

[nafpaktos]

We must also reckon that he fought-fights againts drivers with factory support and thats really important.

[tommeke_B]

Also don't forget Sousa is driving a Ford Fiesta RRC, I'm a bit unsure if, and how much it is faster than R5. Sousa is around in WRC since 2008, and since stages are changing only very little over the years, he has had plenty of time to prove himself. In 2010 he was driving SWRC with a Fiesta S2000 with 2 years of WRC experience under his belt, I remember him being beaten by drivers like Pons, Kosciuszko, Ketomaa, Prokop, Sandell and more. Where are those drivers now? For me Sousa's performance in WRC-2 is more a proof of the poor condition of the championship, than of his "amazing talent". And yes he did good with his win in Azores, but Vaclav Pech won Barum Rally this year and that also doesn't make him a WRC star...

[bluuford]

Scroll till the end of page and look stats for ERC: http://www.ewrc-results.com/season.p...6&nat=95&t=ERC
and WRC2: http://www.ewrc-results.com/season.p...nat=95&t=WRC-2
Look the stage wins. Abbring despite having taken part only 5 rallies and stopping before the end of most of them has still mot of the stage wins (as long as the car was running OK)
Now look WRC2. Ott did the same in WRC2 (as long as the car was not breaking down (it broke down in Argentina, Italy and Finland) or he had proper tyres he won most of the stages).

These two are clearly visible from the RC2 field in 2014.