[WRC] Tour de Corse 2019

[Mirek]

For next Germany and Catalonia rallies they could invite person from OZ Racing to talk about WRC rims manufacturing, testing, differences between teams etc. It would be very interesting since it seems to be the decider of the titles.

I'm sorry but unless they have some sort of very loosely written contract they can't say a shit about anything related to the particular manufacturers.

[EstWRC]

Is Neuville less aggressive? I don't think so. Let's remember how his suspension kept braking constantly through the last season from cutting...

+1

Plus Tänak in the M-sport days very rarely had punctures and he drove way more aggressively back then compared to now IMO.

[dimviii]

watch Neuville at 4,37 touching a kurb
https://youtu.be/X1QQrxuQZrQ

[Mirek]

watch Neuville at 4,37 touching a kurb
https://youtu.be/X1QQrxuQZrQ

No-one could say a thing if this resulted in a puncture...

[dimviii]

The Italian sports director of Hyundai Motorsport celebrates the success of Thierry Neuville very soberly.

Out of respect, no doubt, for their rivals who had lost everything in the final stage but also in all objectivity, Andrea Adamo did not boast, far from far, when taking stock, more than mathematically positive, of this Tour de Corse in Paris. The result of which his rider and his team take the lead of the two championships.

"We actually finished first in the standings, but we can not really say we won this rally," Andrea Adamo confessed after the finish. "We inherited the win following the setbacks of a competitor faster than us, we should have finished in second place, which would have been encouraging Thierry and Nicolas have made a great rally. for three days, but to really win you must be the fastest and that was not the case.Sure we take the 25 points with pleasure.It is positive, a big shot of moral boost. for the whole team, but we have to be realistic and honest with ourselves, and in terms of pure performance, we are not where we want to be. "

A fair speech and analysis that Thierry Neuville and Nicolas Gilsoul must appreciate. Hyundai does not expect to rest on these laurels at all. Obviously the Toyota and the Ford were generally faster on the asphalt. And we will have to try to correct that for Germany.

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[EstWRC]

watch Neuville at 4,37 touching a kurb
https://youtu.be/X1QQrxuQZrQ

pppfff....how on earth he didnt get a puncture with this? incredible, very lucky

[dimviii]

GHrallyemotion video
https://youtu.be/BB8rLgLV6gQ

[EstWRC]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrljxHU82rY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXVfxCqo9bI

[mknight]

Evans puncture is at 3:28 of his onboard, looks like hole in the road and he started breaking right into it. Neuville drove in same spot more to the left, Ogier and seemingly Meeke more to the right (didn't watch others)


The spot where Tanak and Latvala got puncture is on the other picture on 1:35 of his onboard.

- Latvala cuts massively multiple times also on the corners before, could have gotten puncture on any of them
- Meeke didn't cut, nothing in notes either way
- Evans had "caution don't" and didn't cut
- Loeb and Sordo didn't cut (don't understand their notes)
- Lappi and Ogier are hard to say, audio is low and the car doesn't react over that spot
- Suninen prbly cut a bit but no big impact
(Neuville's onboard on that stage is not available)

[seb_sh]

Maybe such proposal wouldn't sound too attractive if you're a rim supplier... But sure there is work to be done at TGR. Mäkinen confirmed in a Finnish interview that they had stronger rims in Corsica than they had in Monte but that obviously didn't fix the issue.

Maybe they should just ask to have the same strength as others. If I remember correctly at the Monte they admitted they were pushing to have lighter rims and maybe they went too far.