[WRC] Croatia Rally 2023

[meh]

if i understood correct .that was an issue as the car left service park,but the crew fixed it, thats why they were late at time control and took 10sec penalty?

Yes, and my question/assumption is - is it fully fixed or he actually loosing time because of some issue additionally do not have fighting mode/mood.

[dimviii]

Ciamin just passed Gryazin and now 2nd overall.
C3 and polo ahead of skoda armada.

[doubled1978]

Normally I don’t care who wins so long as it’s a good race, but I was hoping a Hyundai (Neuville as it looked) would win this one for obvious reasons.
Big shame.

[Humber]

Croatia appears to be another long rally (1650.68km total) to obtain the stage distance (301.26km) which 18 percent of the distance driven.

[dimviii]

[becher]

From what i've seen Neuvilles out looks like a rather unfortunate incident with a concrete pipe hide at the edge of the road. Is there any footage?

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Ryan Champion@Ryan_Champion

Regardless of your favourite team, I think an awful lot of people would have enjoyed a @thierryneuville win this weekend carrying that livery. #ForCraig

[dimviii]

hierry Neuville has explained the crash that caused his retirement from Croatia Rally on SS11.

Neuville had been leading the event, going onto that stage with a 10.8 second advantage over Toyota’s Elfyn Evans.

But midway through the test he lost the back end of his Hyundai i20 N Rally1 going into a right-handed corner and the right-rear hit some concrete, immediately forcing him to retire from the rally.

And when speaking to DirtFish about the incident, Neuville confirmed that he locked the wheels up under braking.

“To be honest, I struggle a bit to explain it now,” Neuville said.



“I have to check on the video, but especially on the data. I think I just lock up the wheels under braking and had I got in the dust and that’s about it.”

But while it appeared to be an unforced error from Neuville, he doesn’t think it was a case of him driving the car too fast into the corner.

“I don’t know. I didn’t have the feeling like I was driving too fast.

“I think I just probably got into the dirt on the braking, and then with the hard tire on the front it, locked the wheel and I just went a bit straight. And once in the dust it’s hard to keep it on the road.

“So it’s a shame. We had a mission this weekend and we were on it, but obviously.. Yeah, just not confident all the time and on a rally like this, when you are not 100% confident, the smallest mistakes can [catch you out].”

https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/neuvi...a-rally-crash/

[dimviii]

From what i've seen Neuvilles out looks like a rather unfortunate incident with a concrete pipe hide at the edge of the road. Is there any footage?

https://www.wrc.com/en/news/2023/wrc...urday-morning/

[becher]

https://www.wrc.com/en/news/2023/wrc...urday-morning/

Thanks, it would have been a mess even without the drain pipe. Still a shame.