Rally Portugal 2016

[dimviii]

Should overtake Aasen tomorrow.

Is that Pedder in the photo? I presumed he was a young person.

he is 40 years old.

[Kielder]

Fafe stage, an hour ago. People is already pushing hard.

[Rallyper]

you sould stick at Greek way.To help you understand why.

at ss 3 Evans had clutch problems,except the handling problems(not excuses here)

"Really struggling with the feeling here and now I have a bigger problem - I don't have a clutch."
http://www.ewrc-results.com/results....-Portugal-2016
From Tidemand he was more than 1 sec/km slower


at ss4 you find promising the 0,7 sec per km? this is plenty of minutes at a rally.Not so promising.

at ss 5 Berqvist had the national time because of Paddons crash
http://www.ewrc-results.com/results....-Portugal-2016


so the fastest stage time you find is because he get National time.

Thats the way you have to judge stage times,regardless the Nationality of driver.

Berqvist has show very good speed and consistesy with adam opel,but that another level and we have to wait to see if he can be capable.
So dont try to name him fast,before he has some trouble free rides for some rallies.

I didn´t remember and you didn´t read FB of more than Evans. On SS3 Emil drove steering with one hand because of door didn´t lock. SS5 should be SS7. My bad.

However this doesn´t lead anywhere. Let´s wait and see.
My swedish way of counting has it´s correspondences in other countries for sure. Eating hamburgeers is not good. Should be sallads and pasta that´s true.
Aasen, who said he wasn´t good?

[janvanvurpa]

he is 40 years old.

Ah. so a young one.

[janvanvurpa]

I didn´t remember and you didn´t read FB of more than Evans. On SS3 Emil drove steering with one hand because of door didn´t lock.

However this doesn´t lead anywhere. Let´s wait and see.
My swedish way of counting has it´s correspondences in other countries for sure. Eating hamburgeers is not good. Should be sallads and pasta that´s true.
Aasen, who said he wasn´t good?

Per..you're right on the way to count and compare.
Place means nothing in the day in rally, place only means something in points..
In my sport---moto-cross---place meant everything... 5th was 5th and 9th was 9th and it didn't matter if i was one half wheel behind going accross the line or if I was 1 full lap down..8th was 8th and 9th was 9th..

Rally is all about the time difference...

When i started rally I would search for some useful tool so I could get an idea of how much I needed to try for what kind of results and so I look at "average miles per hour" (since we still use English miles) but the MPH was not satisfying..too too abstract...
And I can't think or see difference between 55 and 55.3mph.

Finally the standard "differnce second per km or mile" thing was explained to me--and even with all the beer in me, it was one of those things like silly movie where a ray of light falls on me and you hear the voices of angels in a choir"
I GOT it!!

So difficult to talk when people don't understand the need for consistant method of expression..
Even today you have geniuses--EXPERTS!! who have drive as many as 7 or 8 events "explain" It is always the FASTest car that wins, naturally! Harumph!

And you have to explain they give no awards for the fastest car except at Bonneville, rally is about the shortest time, the quickest to do the route...

Pooor us...Go have a beer.. I'll have an other cup of tea..

0,7 sek/km is pretty good..

(look way down around 65th and see the best American who has been approx 3 to 3.5 sek/km off the best in class...that's not too encouraging.)

[Mirek]

The nice thing on s/km is that the numbers are small. 0,7 s/km looks very nice, I agree. But, but how do You like 4 minutes and 17 seconds per Rally Portugal? It's the exact same thing You know... statistics, I love them. You can twist them whatever You like without actually lying. That's genial

[Kielder]

@bluuford, a little question if possible... What will be the weather like tomorrow in Vieira do Minho? Just for the second run. Thanks in advance.

[itix]

Dear per, I really like Emil but I don't need to cheer about him blindly like You do. Maybe I'm too careful and I know that in the past I was in a similar way careful about for example Hayden Paddon but people used to cheer for youngsters who nobody sees as superstar today.

Emil with R5 in Portugal on SS: 4th (SSS), 13th, 7th, 7th, 8th, 6th, 12th, 11th, 10th, 9th, 17th (puncture and off)

Sweden in WRC2: 7th, 7th, 6th, 4th, 5th, 5th, 6th, 10th, 5th, 6th, 9th, 7th

For me it's impossible to speak about fighting for podium in the time when not a single stage podium was reached. For sure Emil can do that in the future but also he may not. We have to wait and see but making a superstar of him helps nothing.

EDIT. Dimviii was faster...

I'm also a fan of Bergkvist (and especially his choice of car since I am possibly the only Scandinavian die hard fan of PSA), but I am realistic. He has had some problems sure but his pace has not blown me off the chair yet.

In South Swedish rally, sure... He almost matched an ex WRC contender with Skoda Fabia WRC in a group n Mitsubishi.

Here and in sweden I was expecting more from him.

Hope he ups his pace a bit soon... Not everything is the cars fault although I know it is the slowest of the R5's.

[Simmi]

No need to crown or discard Bergkvist after two rounds of WRC2.

This year he should be learning 4WD and the rallies. Hopefully he can show flashes of pace. Ideally he can get some kind of development deal or maybe into a Skoda should Lappi and Tidemand move up. He needs to remain in R5. It's a difficult situation for him, as with his tricky financial situation he must surely feel the pressure to be winning stages now.

[Mirek]

I'm afraid the seats in Škoda for next season are already full...