[WRC] News & Rumours 2018

[Integrale]

Yeah it will be french talking belgian. What a difference.

German

[PLuto]

There was some talk earlier that Didier Auriol would want to do a 60th anniversary rally this year

This was for Corse, but didnt happened.

[PLuto]

Yeah it will be french talking belgian. What a difference.

And to say the truth, Thierry is the last successful product of PSA Rally school (Seb1, Seb2, Thierry).

[Mirek]

Yeah it will be french talking belgian. What a difference.

His native language is not French.

German

This.

[AnttiL]

This was for Corse, but didnt happened.

https://www.lexpressmada.com/09/02/2...n%E2%80%88wrc/

In here he said Portugal or Argentina or any tarmac event, but you have more info on that?

[Fast Eddie WRC]

The Ogier PS penalty row returns...

https://www.autosport.com/wrc/news/1...-the-wrc-title

You can see from the article why M-Sport and Ogier are so disappointed, as there are so many inconsistancies...

[ESTR]

Rules are rules. If he doesn't like them no one is forcing him to stay in championship.

[mArvAlcao17]

Rules are rules. If he doesn't like them no one is forcing him to stay in championship.

He was one of SIX drivers which hit the chicane yet he was the only one penalised

[focus206]

The Ogier PS penalty row returns...

https://www.autosport.com/wrc/news/1...-the-wrc-title

You can see from the article why M-Sport and Ogier are so disappointed, as there are so many inconsistancies...

The fact that Neuville didn't get the penalty as well for hitting the barriers on SS21 is simply explained: it wasn't the power stage. If in circuit racing you exceed track limits during the race, you get a warning. After a number of warnings, you get the penalty. But if you exceed track limits and gain tenths of seconds during your qualifying lap, you're not going to keep your great lap time and start from the front of the grid while receiving just a warning: your lap time will be invalidated. So yes, same crime, but the penalty in the qualifying lap is more severe. Same works for a normal SS and a PS.
If we want to talk in absolute fairness, the stewards maybe didn't bother giving a penalty to Thierry, considering that it wasn't the PS and that +10 seconds to his time wouldn't have changed a thing.
About the other drivers who hit the chicane during the PS, I could guess the stewards didn't find that any of them gained time by hitting it? A video of the various drivers through the chicane on the PS would be helpful to judge.

[pantealex]

He was one of SIX drivers which hit the chicane yet he was the only one penalised

6 drivers hit the chicane after the warning ?

Ogier + 5. Could you please name those other 5 ?

I did watch that stage and I´m pretty sure that none other WRC-car driver did hit that chicane. Do you want some privateers to get penalty?