Rally Discussion and Bar Talk Thread

[AnttiL]

Last year I created an advent calendar of 24 Rally Finland onboard videos making up an imaginary but possible route. This year I do the same for RAC/Wales Rally GB, and today we already start with the shakedown at Clocaenog. Follow this hashtag for a daily video!

https://twitter.com/hashtag/itgetsfa...adventcalendar

[KiwiWRCfan]

Hopefully the bar is well stocked for the next week. Plenty of discussion on 2020 crystal ball predictions needed next week.

[AnttiL]

This year Neuville was the stage win king, but finished only 4th in the points

[mknight]

Tanak vs Neuville went from
73 vs 42
to
12 vs 28

One other troll number, average stage wins per rally:
Tanak 2020: 12/7=1,71
Mikkelsen 2019: 18/10= 1,8

[EstWRC]

so bring Mikkelsen back?


out of those 7 rallies Tänak could compete for stage wins only on 4 rallies

[dimviii]

so bring Mikkelsen back?

not just bring him back,but to replace with Tanak.

[Sulland]

so bring Mikkelsen back?s

Mikkelsen dont want to drive the current Hyundai. He has tried for a long time to get him and the i20 to become one. He is not able to. So not a good marriage. :-)

[mknight]

so bring Mikkelsen back?

out of those 7 rallies Tänak could compete for stage wins only on 4 rallies

Don't be salty. Nobody is saying that. You just spend some time digging out various Tanak-specific statistics to get your mood up. So here you have a reasonably ridiculous statistic to counter. (note what thread this is placed in)

As to the number of stage wins there are lots of small things here and there that affect it and clearly for Tanak with only 7 rallies this year the number is less statistically stable.
The only conclusion is that he is not as fast as with Toyota.

[cali]

These mknight stats are lopsided. Tänak did not have the best season but he was really consistent scorer outside of his 3 DNF's and always fighting for podiums/wins which cannot be said about Mikkelsen. But we learned that the i20 is really a handful to drive.

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[Tarmop]

Umh...then again, we learnt that after 6 events, scoring zero from a crash on one and loosing a lot due to technical problems on two, the i20s driven by Neuville and Tänak were both in title contention going into round seven.