Quote Originally Posted by Ucci View Post
- Tanak: well, I would not care for the result this weekend (by the way-3rd position is not bad start into new season…), the guy is ''mind blowing'' fast, at the moment without real competition. If his driving is not going to be to aggressive, nothing (nobody) can stop him.
- Loeb: maybe not happy, but again: one week ago he made a first test, he was pushing and the speed was not there, but 9x times WC will definitely improve. He is big positive gain for the team.
- JM Latvala: disaster, if he will not show some solid performance during first half of the season, ''the village team'' can fire him…
.0012%

That's how much faster overall that Tanak was over Loeb

And Loeb was 1/10 of that quicker than Latvala...

I wonder if anybody ever thinks of the tiny fractions of 1% and how ultimately silly is our collective exaggerations and fan-talk really is?

3.
8		 Tänak Ott - Järveoja M.
Toyota Yaris WRC 		RC1
M		 3:23:31.1 +2:15.2
+2:13.0		 89.6
0.45
4.
19		 Loeb Sébastien - Elena D.
Hyundai i20 Coupe WRC 		RC1
M		 3:23:44.1 +2:28.2
+13.0		 89.5
0.49
5.
10		 Latvala J. - Anttila M.
Toyota Yaris WRC 		RC1
M		 3:23:45.8 +2:29.9
+1.7		 89.5
0.49

If Tanak is blinding amazingly fast!!!! and Loeb is just 13 seconds after in 3H23m31.1s of SS....then Loeb is 99.999% as fast and Latvala about 99.998% as fast
How in the real world is that "speed not there' and "not show some solid performance"?

We talk in too too much extremes...too often..

My cheers goes to Loeb...according to the "wisdom' of forums, he's 10 years too old...Not reasonable rest, ultra short tests before, ancient, new car which collective wisdom have all decided is no good.....at his age he's just having fun.. His results say 'we" are are full of hoooey.