WRC2 news & rumors 2023

[Jarek Z]

Loeb wins rally azores infront of Mikkelsen in a fabia rs rally2...........

... even though he has never been on this island, hasn't driven this car before and has nearly zero experience in R5/Rally2 cars. What a driver!

[speederbee]

... even though he has never been on this island, hasn't driven this car before and has nearly zero experience in R5/Rally2 cars. What a driver!

Looks to me like yet another nail in the coffin of Mikkelsen's Rally1 chances, particularly after reading the dirtfish interview in which he spouts a long list of excuses as to why he lost.

It's not just the fact that he lost- after all, Loeb is a formidable opponent- but the way he basically tried to claim it wasn't his fault and he drove a good drive is unimpressive.

Maybe I'm reading too much into it though

[ouvreur]

Looks to me like yet another nail in the coffin of Mikkelsen's Rally1 chances, particularly after reading the dirtfish interview in which he spouts a long list of excuses as to why he lost.

It's not just the fact that he lost- after all, Loeb is a formidable opponent- but the way he basically tried to claim it wasn't his fault and he drove a good drive is unimpressive.

Maybe I'm reading too much into it though

You're being unfair. It's obviously just down to the tyres

[mknight]

The interview I read says that Michelin were supposedly better on the first day in wet and worse on second day in dry. So he also claims that he was able to close up on second day due to his tires beeing better then. First day he had a puncture on first stage and no extra spare, that's just what happened.

A bit over a year ago Loeb got in the Puma, never changed a single setting and won Monte vs fulltime drivers that were developing their cars for a year, in a rather similar situation. Since then he led every rally he started on the top level and was always the fastest Puma (beating Breen, who just got 2nd place in a Hyundai).

Losing to Loeb by a small margin surely isn't "a nail in the coffin" for anyone.

Loeb and Ogier results in Rally1 era make everyone currently driving there look like second class drivers though.

[PLuto]

The interview I read says that Michelin were supposedly better on the first day in wet and worse on second day in dry. So he also claims that he was able to close up on second day due to his tires beeing better then. First day he had a puncture on first stage and no extra spare, that's just what happened.

A bit over a year ago Loeb got in the Puma, never changed a single setting and won Monte vs fulltime drivers that were developing their cars for a year, in a rather similar situation. Since then he led every rally he started on the top level and was always the fastest Puma (beating Breen, who just got 2nd place in a Hyundai).

Losing to Loeb by a small margin surely isn't "a nail in the coffin" for anyone.

Loeb and Ogier results in Rally1 era make everyone currently driving there look like second class drivers though.

You can compare the results - on Michelin was Loeb, Cais and Moura, on Pirelli was Mikkelsen, Veiby and Solans. It is also important to mention that there was limit of 10 tyres per crew for whole race, so there was also part of tactics...

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Interesting article about Loeb from a Skoda engineer Yannick Willocx, Loeb engineer in the Azores: "I felt useless..."

https://www.autohebdo.fr/actualites/...i-inutile.html

[Rallyper]

interesting article about loeb from a skoda engineer yannick willocx, loeb engineer in the azores: "i felt useless..."

https://www.autohebdo.fr/actualites/...i-inutile.html

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[spyros]

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I'm happy to see him in action back in years.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Gus Greensmith on the Skoda Fabia RS:

https://www.skoda-motorsport.com/en/...easy-to-drive/

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Rally Warrior aka Chris Ingram:

Counting down the days until my next WRC round in the brand new RS Rally2...

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?sto...00065400402839