Rally Finland 2015

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Christoph Treier
‏@ChristophTreier
The last preparations done before the final day at @RallyFinland. Visualization of the powerstage for @JariMattiWRC

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Kubica onboard.Maybe this time was unlucky.
http://www.ccma.cat/tv3/alacarta/324...video/5542995/

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfA0...ature=youtu.be

[Finne]

About Citroen's situation I would rather keep Meeke than Östberg because you have better chance to turn a fast driver as reliable than a slow driver as fast. But that's matter of taste. Meeke is also coming from Great Britain which very large market which should be important to Citroen. IMO Meeke reminds Latvala as a driver. He can still impove and have some good seasons in the future but there will be inconsistent seasons also.

What is interesting to see is that even very experienced drivers like Meeke and Östberg needs many years in world rally car to reach their level. I believe that both drivers will still get better but IMO they will not get better than Hirvonen or Latvala have been (probably not even as good but nearly). But Meeke's and Östberg's limitation is well known and I wonder what Citroen has imagined to achieve with them. For instance Juho Hänninen won Meeke over a season with 2000 cars. I wonder what they thought when they let Neuville go Ford because he was showing real top-class potential in Citroen. I have not changed my mind about Neuville's potential despite his current crisis.

[Simmi]

Looks like it's all over now barring any mistakes. Really wish leg 3 wasn't such a throwaway prospect or else you wouldn't have Ogier throwing the towel in.

I thought Sordo might have at least tried to go get that final point from Bertelli. Instead he's also jacked it in. Nice for Lorenzo though if he can take that.

EDIT: Best fight is for JWRC victory. Haapamaki has absolutely torn into Gilbert's lead since he had that puncture. He's pulled back 2mins and now is just +12.4sec back.

[marcosg]

Kubica onboard.Maybe this time was unlucky.
http://www.ccma.cat/tv3/alacarta/324...video/5542995/

I'm an hardcore fan of Robert, but I think he just braked too late... the water didn't help and there is also a bump... but for me it looks like driver error...

[dodge33cymru]

Somewhere Sepp Weigand is sat at home thinking "see, I wasn't that bad"

[skarderud]

About Citroen's situation I would rather keep Meeke than Östberg because you have better chance to turn a fast driver as reliable than a slow driver as fast. But that's matter of taste. Meeke is also coming from Great Britain which very large market which should be important to Citroen. IMO Meeke reminds Latvala as a driver. He can still impove and have some good seasons in the future but there will be inconsistent seasons also.

What is interesting to see is that even very experienced drivers like Meeke and Östberg needs many years in world rally car to reach their level. I believe that both drivers will still get better but IMO they will not get better than Hirvonen or Latvala have been (probably not even as good but nearly). But Meeke's and Östberg's limitation is well known and I wonder what Citroen has imagined to achieve with them. For instance Juho Hänninen won Meeke over a season with 2000 cars. I wonder what they thought when they let Neuville go Ford because he was showing real top-class potential in Citroen. I have not changed my mind about Neuville's potential despite his current crisis.

Ostberg has a order to bring in points to the team, drive safe enough to score good points.
In the pre-finland intervju with matton, he pointed out that he was happy with ostberg and he did his job as he was asked for.
He also said that he going to let him drive "free" later in the season.
If he is fast enough to be a worldchamp, noone of us know.
Could be interesting to see him in a polo, but that will never happens, thought.

[AL14]

Ostberg has a order to bring in points to the team, drive safe enough to score good points.
In the pre-finland intervju with matton, he pointed out that he was happy with ostberg and he did his job as he was asked for.
He also said that he going to let him drive "free" later in the season.
If he is fast enough to be a worldchamp, noone of us know.
Could be interesting to see him in a polo, but that will never happens, thought.

I would like to agree with you but I can't. Ostberg has reached his top since 3 years from now. He hardly can improve more. He can continue as long as there is a manufacturer looking for a point scorer but not for a world champion.

[tommeke_B]

Ostberg is a perfect 2nd driver. He's not quick enough to beat the top drivers (apart from Sweden maybe), but he is delivering points to the manufacturer in almost every event. That can't be said from Meeke. For next year the best line-up for Citroën could be Paddon or Tanak in combination with Ostberg, in case they can't get Loeb back to WRC, and in case they are still a works-team...