Rally Italia Sardegna 2015

[kirungi okwogera]

Funny post-stage interview from Protasov not knowing if he's won or not. Such a close finish, a good rally overall really - nice battle in both WRC and WRC2. Ogier wasn't moaning too much about cleaning and was pretty gracious about Paddon. Makes you wonder "what if" though - am I right thinking Ogier is the only WRC car that didn't lose minutes for one problem or another?

[stefanvv]

Commentator saying.. Ogier two days first on the road... Nice homework :-)

haha, perhaps Ogier has something to do with such impression

[Mirek]

Something funny

[nafpaktos]

By the way, did anyone noticed that Ogier did not make any single mistake from the beginning of the championship? That's impressive.

EDIT: He spun in Sweden, but impressive driving anyway. He seems an even better driver than last year.

with that kind of rivals you dont have the right to do mistakes,same for loeb.

[JAM]

Ogier was on of the few drivers that don't have to avoid rocks because was one of the first cars on the road. Did you notice hoew many drivers had offs, problems and punctures because of the rocks?

In fact, start in the front was an advantage on the Sardinian roads.

[dimviii]

Congratulations to Ogier, one of the few without problems this weekend. Looks like the "miracle" happened, but is anyone really surprised or didn't expect this? I still need to understand if he really believes what he says or just moans just for the sake of moaning.

he just moans in case he loose.If he wins he won because he is best(right) and he can win even with cleaning the road.
if he looses,he lost because he was handiccaped from the cleaning.Its a win win situation,whatever the result.
Before the power stage he said that he will be ok with 1 or 2 points at power stage.
We have seen that at power stages he is unbeatable,for many reasons.Usually he is with fresh tyres due to big difference from 2nd position at last day,that allows him to take care at his tyres.
So you are the best/faster you have fresh tyres,but you expect 1 or 2 points from power stage?Really?
his fear is to dont loose.he wants to have ready the excuse.

Anyway congrats to him for a weel deserved win and a faultless rally.
As we saw starting 1st at this rally was for his favour.
Congrats to Paddon,for an astonishing drive all weekend.No mistakes,steady,and fast.
Wish he continue like that.
Neuville has to do something,very average lately.
Hyundai has to fix reliability.All cars have problems at all rallies so far.
Latvala same as always,he is capable for the best and the worst.
Nice fight at wrc2,well deserved win for Protasov,
strange that the Italian 208 coped 3 days at this rough rally without major problems.
About skoda seems the speed is here,pitty Lappi did his mistake.He could have won easily.
Bring on the next one.

[dimviii]

1 VW 179
2 @Citroen 115
3 Hyundai 113
4 M-Sport 99
5 Jipocar 34

1 Ogier 133
2 @MadsOstberg 67
3 Mikkelsen 64
4 Latvala 56
5 Evans 53
6 Neuville 50
7 @krismeeke 47
12 @khalidbinfaisal 9

[Mirek]

About skoda seems the speed is here,pitty Lappi did his mistake.He could have won easily.

What is also important is that both cars had no technical problems on such a rough and long rally (I'm not sure if Kremer's yesterday's problems were caused by mechanical isues or by some driving mistake). That has been very uncommon with R5. The "Safari-style" setup obviously worked.

[AL14]

with that kind of rivals you dont have the right to do mistakes,same for loeb.

I think, instead, that are not his rivals to be at a low level but him (and Loeb before him) to be an exception.
Before the two sebastien everyone had problems, crashed and so on. There are world champions before them that did not crash less than Latvala, or Mikkelsen. Rally will become "normal" after he will retire.
And I wouldn't say being first here was an advantage, I'm convinced that if Ogier was not first on the road he would have came out of it with the same result, maybe even better.

[Mirek]

Before the two sebastien everyone had problems, crashed and so on. There are world champions before them that did not crash less than Latvala, or Mikkelsen.

+1

And I wouldn't say being first here was an advantage, I'm convinced that if Ogier was not first on the road he would have came out of it with the same result, maybe even better.

+1

What is interesting for me is that unlike Loeb Ogier doesn't look like driving safe. Loeb was very precise, clean and smooth and it was clear why he rarely makes mistakes but Ogier is not like him. He drives more flamboyant, more spectacular way but even with that he rarely makes mistakes (still naturally more than Loeb).