[WRC] Rallye Monte Carlo 2022

[dimviii]

and a little whine as always about starting position.

“Starting first was definitely not an advantage either,” he added.

“The sun was coming through, the road was gaining [speed] faster, especially for Loeb starting half an hour behind us.




“It was a mix of a couple of issues,” Ogier told DirtFish.

“One of those is that probably, with Simon [Jean-Joseph, two-time European Rally Champion and Ogier’s safety crew driver], my gravel crew were a bit on the safe side.

“The information I received from them was very safe and slowed me down quite a lot on the frosty section, which they described a bit more towards being ice.

“That can make a big difference on such a rally. We’ve been talking about it tonight and we said, OK, tomorrow we do better. It’s always a very difficult task for them so I don’t blame anybody.”

Ogier made a decision to back off in light of his cautious pacenotes, which in turn made a strong rhythm harder to find on the latter parts of the stage, where he dropped the most time.

https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/the-c...lo-rally-lead/