Rally Wrc Monte Carlo 2017

[stefanvv]

3. Citroen and Hyundai have shown the speed to be on par with Ford and Toyota.

I may presume You didn't expected them to be so slow?

[lnvs]

Despite all the posts about how irrelevant MC is for evaluating car and drivers at this point in time, we have seen enough to do some conclusions.

In short, no we haven't. Don't think it's worth to do any conclusions during Monte.

[jparker]

Think there are a few unfair posts about Evans seeing as this is his first year back in a properly quick car and clearly the DMack tyres aren't as good. He's previously proved that hes a quick driver with a number of good results (in a dog of a Fiesta), but he needs time in the car. It's took Andreas nearly years of driving a top car before he managed to get a win so I think it's right that he's given more than 5 stages on a tricky rally before people say he's s**t.

I hear you, but his times were just terrible. I can't imagine tyres to have such huge impact on his speed.

[Hasselhoax]

Mikkelsen 2017 WDC
Ogier 2017 WDC
Neuville 2017 WDC
Tanak 2017 WDC
Hanninen 2017 WDC
Astier 2017 WDC

[MrJan]

In short, no we haven't. Don't think it's worth to do any conclusions during Monte.

No conclusions...but...the Toyota has ability (although possibly from stage conditions/tyre advantage) to be on a similar pace, which I didn't really expect. The Hyundai can, on occasion at least, be very fast (which I definitely did expect).

However that's on the first morning of a pretty unique rally, could be completely different by the time we get to a gravel or proper tarmac event.

[jparker]

I may presume You didn't expected them to be so slow?

Well, lets say they deliver the expected

[car]

ogier stopped?

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Anywhere else for split times... WRC.com not loading properly for me.

[car]

Anywhere else for split times... WRC.com not loading properly for me.

Have they passed the first split yet? WRC.com is loaded, but no splits yet for me

[MrJan]

I hear you, but his times were just terrible. I can't imagine tyres to have such huge impact on his speed.

Possibly not...but 4 bad stages don't automatically mean that a guy doesn't deserve a drive, especially when that driver has had good results in a poor car previously.