Acropolis Rally Greece 2022 (8-11 Sep)

[dimviii]

athanasoulas.

was seriously sick all the days,and before 10 days he had a surgery at his foot,that hadnt recovered at all.

[Eli]

Greensmith has 36 points now.
Loubet has 30.
Fourmaux has 9.

Let's gooo!!

Greensmith has now gone ahead of Loeb & Ogier in the standings. Even in his standards his season is worse than last, although that unreliable Puma seems to be firing issued left, right and center.

[meh]

One thing to keep in mind maybe - media is selling (and therefore also creating) scandals. A lot of things are not that dramatic like we can read from media - or you can see HOW and in what context those lines were said.

This is same here, Tänak is not happy about it, but I have not seen any major drama from his side. He is answering questions when those are asked. Hyundai management now need to be sure that Tänak's season will not go that well that he finishes the season less than 7 point behind Rovanperä.

I say again - Neuville deserved the win and congrats! Also Tänak said, that the main problem was he was out of real fight due the differential issues during friday.

One thing is actually interesting - that it was not Moncet who gave orders to Tänak, but some next level guy. We can speculate whatever here, but it would be interesting to know. It also reminds Tänak in Toyota - he talked directly to next level bosses, including Toyoda himself.

[Tauri_J]

Tänak had hybrid issues Friday and differential problems saturday.

Btw that next level guy was Sean Kim.

[NOT]

was seriously sick all the days,and before 10 days he had a surgery at his foot,that hadnt recovered at all.

yes thats why he was fast in stages 3 meters from his house and got beaten like a sack of potatoes in the others.

i saw him in the test near loutraki (last years agioi theodoroi stage) last saturday along with the other hyundais and virves... he did not seem sick or had any problems walking.

[WRCStan]

One thing to keep in mind maybe - media is selling (and therefore also creating) scandals. A lot of things are not that dramatic like we can read from media - or you can see HOW and in what context those lines were said.

This is same here, Tänak is not happy about it, but I have not seen any major drama from his side. He is answering questions when those are asked. Hyundai management now need to be sure that Tänak's season will not go that well that he finishes the season less than 7 point behind Rovanperä.

I say again - Neuville deserved the win and congrats! Also Tänak said, that the main problem was he was out of real fight due the differential issues during friday.

One thing is actually interesting - that it was not Moncet who gave orders to Tänak, but some next level guy. We can speculate whatever here, but it would be interesting to know. It also reminds Tänak in Toyota - he talked directly to next level bosses, including Toyoda himself.

You mean Hyundai's decision not to impose team orders being understood to be a team order itself shouldn't be the focus of 3 Dirtfish articles and 30 pages of discussion here? Well yeah I agree, but clearly we're bored.

[hari]

Some pictures from Sunday: https://www.ir7.at/content/fotos_bes...llye_2022.html

[TypeR]

Greensmith has 36 points now.
Loubet has 30.
Fourmaux has 9.

Let's gooo!!

- Mikkelsen 25p
- Solberg 21p
- Lindholm 14p
- Rossell 11p
* overall WRC points

[Myrvold]

- Mikkelsen 25p
- Solberg 21p
- Lindholm 14p
- Rossell 11p
* overall WRC points

- Serderidis 6
- Brynildsen 1

Those are a bit weird.

Regardless... I wish I knew why I became such a fan of Loubet some years ago, but I take what I get. Second 4th place this year and closing in on Greensmith. Can't complain!

[mknight]

Well he surely had road position advantage, but it's at least 2nd time this year (first was Portugal) where he is the fastest MSport besides Loeb for most of the rally, while seemingly being paying for everything.

I guess he only does Catalunya for rest of the year?

As it is now based only on performance I'd swap him with Fourmaux immediatelly.