Rally2 (ex-R5) News

[Sulland]

Times in now, some glitch I guess.

+4,1 on SS1
- 7,8 on SS2

So leads 3,7 on Grøndal after 2.

[Jarek Z]

2nd on SS1
1st on SS2
2nd on SS3
1st on SS4
Leads by 13 seconds after SS4. I see no problems for Mikkelsen so far

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Hard to judge really. With Mikkelsen driving you'd expect such a lead in any Rally2 car

[jcevc]

2nd on SS1
1st on SS2
2nd on SS3
1st on SS4
Leads by 13 seconds after SS4. I see no problems for Mikkelsen so far

Yes, if you start to check the times on 10:00 CET - but if you was looking at 7:30 CET and first 30 cars finished the stage without time for Mikkelsen, you can clearly ask what happened to him - especially when also on SS2 first cars arrived to finish and again no time for Mikkelsen - later they add times for him for both SS.

Anyway, I expected higher lead after 4 SS

[PLuto]

Yes, if you start to check the times on 10:00 CET - but if you was looking at 7:30 CET and first 30 cars finished the stage without time for Mikkelsen, you can clearly ask what happened to him - especially when also on SS2 first cars arrived to finish and again no time for Mikkelsen - later they add times for him for both SS.

Anyway, I expected higher lead after 4 SS

They have found (and added) his times only when he has arrived to regrouping after SS 2.

[Jarek Z]

Anyway, I expected higher lead after 4 SS

26 seconds after SS6. Is it good enough?

[jcevc]

26 seconds after SS6. Is it good enough?

Not yet :P

[Fast Eddie WRC]

He just lost 4.6s to Tom Kristensson.

[Lead]

He just lost 4.6s to Tom Kristensson.

I think he is driving the car home in first place at the moment, and not pushing to set fastest stage times. What a better start it would be for new Skoda? First official rally for car = first win. Bingo.

[RS]

Hard to judge really. With Mikkelsen driving you'd expect such a lead in any Rally2 car

True. This is the problem with running on a low profile event such as this. It's bigger news if he doesn't win than he does.

As Lead says he's probably just driving within himself at the moment to get the result. Conditions are tricky and he doesn't know the car as well as the old one.