[WRC] Rally Italia Sardegna 13th-16th June 2019

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Haninen's car isnt 'linked' to Portugal like the others as it didnt run there. So it can have a different brand of dampers.

Other changes like the brake cooling that was tested arent homologated.

[KKS]

Well they have allocated a certain set of dampers and other spare parts and that must be used. They cannot go and try a different damper brand to help coping in the heat.

So they can get new one with exact construction?
Anyway change dumper supplier within 2 weeks without any test it's not good idea. I hope this is only some factory defect with JML and Ott dumpers.

[AnttiL]

So they can get new one with exact construction?
Anyway change dumper supplier within 2 weeks without any test it's not good idea. I hope this is only some factory defect with JML and Ott dumpers.

They are allowed to use X amount of dampers for the two events combined. And yeah I know it would be outrageous to change dampers without testing. That's what Hänninen is most likely doing.

[AMSS]

So they can get new one with exact construction?
Anyway change dumper supplier within 2 weeks without any test it's not good idea. I hope this is only some factory defect with JML and Ott dumpers.

They are allowed 5 sets for Portugal and Sardinia in total, I don`t know how these new rules are but it might be that the dampers are sealed so they can`t even make service on them until after Sardinia

[pantealex]

Stewards decicions 1&2
-Andolfi can do shakedown with WRC and WRC2 PRO
-Østberg can bring his spare gearbox later to scrutineering

[Rallyper]

Remember, only just over 24 hrs left for making PICKEMS for Sardegna.

Will close tomorrow at 2300 CET.

[Essaj]

Will close tomorrow at 2300 CET.

SS1 has already been driven at that point

[EstWRC]

https://twitter.com/TGR_WRC/status/1138853947752497152

Sardegna will be Tänaks 100th rally, if he wins, it will be his 10th career win, and if he somehow manages to get 12 stage wins, he will have 200 career stage wins after Sardegna.

[Allez Andruet]

https://www.rallit.fi/juho-hannisell...n-pikku-jekku/

In this Finnish interview Hänninen says (in his well-known humorous way) he hopes that the top guys will be so much faster than him already on SS2, that there wouldn't be any need to compare the times against them after that. And once again he says that this is just about testing and nothing else. Which, without a shadow of a doubt is true, but... once a rally driver, always a rally driver. We saw in Sweden how easy it was for Grönholm to "just enjoy the rally". Juho's my biggest modern day hero, and part of me hopes that he will call Tommi right after SS2 and tell him to forget about the test plan.

[Mk2 RS2000]

[QUOTE=AnttiL;1220058] And what about the Hyundai fuel system, have they been able to rectify that issue?

QUOTE]

Its been an on going issue that first reared its head at Mexico 2017, Should get it fixed one day.