Neste Rally Finland 2017

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Really surprised at the lack of pace of Neuville & Hyundai's - slowest of all the WRC's today. They looked so good on the SD video's. Any theories ?

[Mise]

Impressive performance of the Toyotas
Mäkinen will receive some calls after the weekend concerning 2018 driver lineup

Well, need to see the bigger picture here. Toyota has unlimited testing in Finland, since their HQ is in Finland. So they should be fast in Neste rally.
Of course this really looks good to an old finnish rally fan

[electroliquid]

Of course this really looks good to an old finnish rally fan

Indeed, rallying el clasico

[N.O.T]

Really surprised at the lack of pace of Neuville & Hyundai's - slowest of all the WRC's today. They looked so good on the SD video's. Any theories ?

Paddon was not slow....

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Paddon was not slow....

Neuville and Sordo were and still are slow.

[swanny]

And sadly Paddon is out.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Reading Neuville's quotes he seems to have started with the mindset of not being able to go for the win, and then just settling for top 5 after Ogier went out.

Not the attitude of a champion IMO.

[seb_sh]

Reading Neuville's quotes he seems to have started with the mindset of not being able to go for the win, and then just settling for top 5 after Ogier went out.

Not the attitude of a champion IMO.

Actually, it's exactly the attitude of a champion in modern WRC.

[mknight]

Really surprised at the lack of pace of Neuville & Hyundai's - slowest of all the WRC's today. They looked so good on the SD video's. Any theories ?

Generally this year Hyundai's strength has been "agility" in slow-medium speed corners and narrow roads and how easy they were to drive in medium-fast corners. They don't seem to have the best top speed. (Ford seems to lead there ahead of Toyota). In Finland the road is so wide that other cars don't have so much issues with controlling the cars (as opposite to Poland which is narrow). This is also why Citroen is doing ok.

Then it's the drivers:
Neuville has never done extremely well in Finland, has bad road position (specially now without Ogier in front) which he is not used to. Also does not want to risk crashing when Ogier is out and relies a bit more on mistakes of the ones in front.
Sordo again has not done well in the later years here.
Paddon was fast (maybe also due to road position), but seems like he was pushing too much (as we have seen at least 2 big moments on vid).

Off course, all this is just speculation. But that's what you asked for

[swanny]

Anyone else struggling to listen to rally radio using an iPhone or iPad? Any idvice? Thanks.

Working alright for me on phone using the WRC Android app.

EDIT: jinx!