[WRC] 91e Rallye Automobile Monte-Carlo (16-22 January 2023)

[EstWRC]

- BEST OF MONTE CARLO BEST OF 2023 - CHECKPOINRALLYE -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teMZa4AzIZ4

BGF VIDEO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7JsKVySHSk

Turbo2'Rallye
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7idoQ9LRbYI

[TypeR]

so now it is:
Ogier 9 vs Loeb 8 Monte-Carlo wins.
I'm quite sure, he wants to go for 10th..

I think Tanak and M-Sport hoped for ,,easier'' rally (as of more difficult weather conditions, so the performance gap wasn't that big), but got a proper full dry tarmac rally with mostly uphill stages.

Hopefully they got useful data for Croatia. I don't remember if Croatia stages are more flat or not..

[meh]

I think Tanak and M-Sport hoped for ,,easier'' rally (as of more difficult weather conditions, so the performance gap wasn't that big), but got a proper full dry tarmac rally with mostly uphill stages.

Hope for difficult weather and not the tarmac rally was the main reason why they decided to not "waste" testing days before Monte.

[flat_right]

Hope for difficult weather and not the tarmac rally was the main reason why they decided to not "waste" testing days before Monte.

What do you mean by that? They had PET days where they could experience all the conditions that Monte can offer. Iirc they were were pleased that they had those conditions and could prepare like this.

[meh]

What do you mean by that? They had PET days where they could experience all the conditions that Monte can offer. Iirc they were were pleased that they had those conditions and could prepare like this.

Picked this from Betsafe interview with Tänak when host was a bit surprised that why Tänak is in resting mode instead of learning the car and do intense testing. They did their PET, but this is not clearly enough time to get familiar with the car.

Now Monte was "long testing" to collect "topics to improve".

[TypeR]

I meant that when the conditions would have been icy, snowy etc, then the lack of time in new car and differences between 3 cars' performance wouldn't have played tooo big role, but full tarmac was different story..
I think that with more slippery conditions Lappi wouldn't been so far back either..(yes, new i20 is tricky in slippery conditions, but still)

[flat_right]

Testing days are very limited so I think it was pretty much all they could do. As there are no Monte conditions in their permanent site in Greystoke so nothing to do there also.

[flat_right]

I meant that when the conditions would have been icy, snowy etc, then the lack of time in new car and differences between 3 cars' performance wouldn't have played tooo big role, but full tarmac was different story..
I think that with more slippery conditions Lappi wouldn't been so far back either..(yes, new i20 is tricky in slippery conditions, but still)

For me it's better to have this reality check here on the first rally so they would really know where they are other than to get this false positive signs that they are on pace on slippery conditions.

Monte result was pretty much as expected as they didn't do as much development as Hyundai and Toyota did. But Ott was positive in a way that now they know where they are and they did get some answers (though some new questions arose).

[meh]

Tänak to delfi:
* didn't expect to loose half of minute with penultimate stage, got extra motivation to drive last stage fast
* can not drive entire rally with the powerstage speed
* didn't take any risk in powerstage, but it was maximum
* now there are new questions to solve and with tarmac car there is few months time to find answers
* there was no goal for winning the rally, the goal was to earn points and get better picture of the car
* we are today behind, but we will find the way to get ahead
* can test 1 day for rally sweden - no experience on the snow yet
* important to catch Toyotas with first half of the year

source:
https://sport.delfi.ee/artikkel/1201...gi-pohieesmark

[dimviii]

Katsuta ok
Lopez ok
Johnston not ok.
https://twitter.com/RallySolo/status...98736445935617


Sordo ok
https://twitter.com/ACM_Media/status...80688372551683


Lopez from another better angle
https://twitter.com/Ale_Alelii/statu...85365512294401