[WRC] XION Rally Argentina | 25th - 28th April

[Fast Eddie WRC]

imagine ogier has committed to right hand gate'as he almost did, and hit gate with left wheel, instead or right.. and continued with broken power steering. would citroen still have complained. Citroen's only focus was to gain road position of day 3.. and the FIA obliged.

If Ogier hadnt damaged his steering going the correct way at the last second, I doubt he would've made anything of the mistake by the others...

But he was 'penalised' by broken PAS and the others werent even though they went the wrong way.

[wrc2017]

sordo just said meeke will still start behind sordo and ogier, becuase the road order was published before the penalty was issued... interesting

[AnttiK7]

I was also reminded of this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxwGdup6L6U&t=10m25s

Yes it's Safari, but still modern era WRC. Difference being, apparently the roadbook in that case had two options on which route to take, so all ok. I remember cases from past with huge shortcuts that are more like blatant cheating than just improvising a little bit. Delecour in 1994 Monte Carlo comes to mind when he cut a huge field and gained something like 20-30 seconds, according to Kankkunen. I don't think he was carrying an onboard camera in that rally. Ironically, karma bit Delecour and he got disqualified that year for an apparently accidental shortcut in the RAC. Also remember from the last day of Finland 2013 when Neuville and Östberg were making big shortcuts across some grass field in front of the TV cameras. No penalties, but I think they were told not to do it on the second run. Where do you draw the line?

[KKS]

haha Meeke comment about gate penalty - was perfect ))))

[Morte66]

There seems to be less discussion of road order in this rally. Is it making less difference than usual?

[dimviii]

haha Meeke comment about gate penalty - was perfect ))))

give us a link

[wrc2017]

give us a link

he said ogier's indecisiveness cost him a lot more than his 10s penalty..

[racerx1979]

That's a pretty accurate statement from Meeke

[AnttiL]

Citroen's only focus was to gain road position of day 3.. and the FIA obliged.

This penalty doesn't alter the road order. Ogier will start before Meeke.

[EstWRC]

virtual standings at the moment

Neuville 107
Ogier 95
Tänak 79
Meeke 52
Evans 43
Mikkelsen 30

Last year after Argentina

Neuville 100
Ogier 90
Tänak 72

basically same