Kenotec Ypres Rally 23-25 June 2016

[Jasper]

I have just counted the number of Peugeots 208 T16 at the finish line of each round of ERC 2016. It doesn't look good:

round 1 Canarias - 1 Pug at the finish line (Consani)
round 2 Ireland - 0 Pugs at the finish line
round 3 Acropolis - 0 Pugs at the finish line
round 4 Azores - 0 Pugs at the finish line

Princen no major problems this year. 5 rally's, one retirement (crash).

[Mirek]

But You can't say he had no problems. AFAIK in the last event even with the Evo kit he had problems with the pop-off all the time. Anyway it's sad when You can name all reliably working Peugeots R5 in Europe out of Your head in just few seconds...

[Andre Oliveira]

I saw that on Patrice Fabre facebook last Ronde del Giraglia:

Nouveau forfait avec cette m..... de 208. Pour la 2eme fois , elle a n'a pas démarré ... Déçu , oui mais surtout tres perplexe . Je ne ferai pas de commentaire sur l'équipe , mais il y a des silences qui veulent dire beaucoup. En tout cas je voudrais juste remercier 1000 fois les membres de l'ASA bastiase et Nico D'ulivo pour leur gentillesse,leur patience et leur accueil. Après je relativise , et je me dit qu'il y a des gens qui ont tout perdu dans les inondations , alors ne pas prendre le départ d'un rallye, il y a plus grave....

[PLuto]

I have just counted the number of Peugeots 208 T16 at the finish line of each round of ERC 2016. It doesn't look good:

round 1 Canarias - 1 Pug at the finish line (Consani)
round 2 Ireland - 0 Pugs at the finish line
round 3 Acropolis - 0 Pugs at the finish line
round 4 Azores - 0 Pugs at the finish line

To be fair, I will little bit update your statistics:

round 1 Canarias - 1 Pug at the finish line (Consani), 1 retired (Costenaro, usual problem with alternator)
round 2 Ireland - 0 Pugs at the finish line, 1 retired (Thorburn, technical problem with transmission)
round 3 Acropolis - 0 Pugs at the finish line, 1 retired (Della Casa, broken radiator after hitting stone)
round 4 Azores - 0 Pugs at the finish line, 1 retired (Costenaro, usual problem with alternator)

Most of that retired cars is still the same car from Delta Rally...

[PLuto]

But You can't say he had no problems. AFAIK in the last event even with the Evo kit he had problems with the pop-off all the time. Anyway it's sad when You can name all reliably working Peugeots R5 in Europe out of Your head in just few seconds...

It is really interesting that we hear lot of complains against pop-off from Citroen and Peugeot drivers. But also lot of other teams and cars had problems with pop-offs. For example Orsak had problems with it on Azores for whole weekend. Lukyanuk had problems with pop-off in Acropolis...

[Jarek Z]

Princen no major problems this year. 5 rally's, one retirement (crash).

He has a chance to be the second Peugeot 208 T16 at the finish line of ERC round this year! Let's keep our fingers crossed for him!

[Mirek]

Most of that retired cars is still the same car from Delta Rally...

Which only underlines the point that barely anybody uses the Pugs because of previous bad experience or their bad reputation.

[skarderud]

He has a chance to be the second Peugeot 208 T16 at the finish line of ERC round this year! Let's keep our fingers crossed for him!

Snijers (208 R5) and Kristiansen (fabia s2000) on the startlist at ypres.

[sete]

Do we have some weather expectations?

[dupanton]

Do we have some weather expectations?

Too early to tell. Grey and Rainy here on Monday, sunshine and thunderstorms yesterday and today. Rain predicted for this weekend. It changes all the time!