[WRC] Vodafone Rally de Portugal 2019

[AnttiL]

List of issues and incidents

Tänak: Brake issues, broken damper, one slide to the side of the road
Neuville: One stall of engine
Ogier: -
Suninen: Brake issues
Evans: Electrical fault - stopped in the stage
Latvala: Broken damper - rally 2
Sordo: Fuel pressure issue - stopped in the stage
Loeb: Fuel pressure issue - stopped in the stage, damaged suspension - retired
Greensmith: Engine issues, off road - rally2, broken suspension and crash - retired
Meeke: Intercom issues, handbrake issues, damper problems, spin, hit a stone - retired
Lappi: Puncture, rolled, damaged suspension - retired

In 2018 and 2017 it was as eventful. Maybe it's the combination of heat, roughness and speed of this event that makes it so difficult to get to the finish without issues?

[bluuford]

List of issues and incidents

Tänak: Brake issues, broken damper, one slide to the side of the road
Neuville: One stall of engine
Ogier: -
Suninen: Brake issues
Evans: Electrical fault - stopped in the stage
Latvala: Broken damper - rally 2
Sordo: Fuel pressure issue - stopped in the stage
Loeb: Fuel pressure issue - stopped in the stage, damaged suspension - retired
Greensmith: Engine issues, off road - rally2, broken suspension and crash - retired
Meeke: Intercom issues, handbrake issues, damper problems, spin, hit a stone - retired
Lappi: Puncture, rolled, damaged suspension - retired

In 2018 and 2017 it was as eventful. Maybe it's the combination of heat, roughness and speed of this event that makes it so difficult to get to the finish without issues?

Neuville had broken radiator a the end of SS13. Sordo had puncture on SS5
SS 12 and 13 were real car destroyers, really big exposed bedrocks, concrete edges on line, metal settling wells (20-30 cm high in the ruts). If you look further back in the list, you can see many-many problems..

[pantealex]

List of issues and incidents

Tänak: Brake issues, broken damper, one slide to the side of the road
Neuville: One stall of engine
Ogier: -
Suninen: Brake issues
Evans: Electrical fault - stopped in the stage
Latvala: Broken damper - rally 2
Sordo: Fuel pressure issue - stopped in the stage
Loeb: Fuel pressure issue - stopped in the stage, damaged suspension - retired
Greensmith: Engine issues, off road - rally2, broken suspension and crash - retired
Meeke: Intercom issues, handbrake issues, damper problems, spin, hit a stone - retired
Lappi: Puncture, rolled, damaged suspension - retired

For Latvala reason for Rally2 was broken suspension, damper took hit in jump but after that he hit a stone and broke suspension. That´s what TGR said afterwards.

Good that AnttiL noticed that Loeb eventually retired.