[WRC] Rally Portugal 2023

[doubled1978]

Easy guys, more punctures expected so it's a lottery for everyone. 2 days to go with this lottery.

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Yes, literally anyone can get a puncture here and Tanak only losing 50 odd seconds might be ok if others have to stop and change.
That said, with the way rallying is now such a sprint, a puncture has such a disproportionate affect on the result that I still find it weird we don’t have EMI tyres back. We only have 8 cars, so having a few of them taken out of the fight by a flat tyre seems madness to me from the promotion of the sport perspective.

[Kras]

Interesting that a tarmac sss is at the end of the day. I suspect that he who has the worst tyres will have the easyest time there

[meh]

Interesting that a tarmac sss is at the end of the day. I suspect that he who has the worst tyres will have the easyest time there

This stage seems like good opportunity to get rid of some wheels...

[EstWRC]

Reading between the lines of Tänak it seems there were many issues during the day

I just can’t understand this, the car can’t even take a full rally day without problems

[meh]

Reading between the lines of Tänak it seems there were many issues during the day

I just can’t understand this, the car can’t even take a full rally day without problems

I was wondering why he was relatively ok and smilyng after puncture or stage later. If puncture was not his largest problem then what was it.

[dimviii]

Tänak Ott - Järveoja Martin
"We were not so sure if we would make it through this afternoon and in the end we made it."

[Eli]

Rear axle also for Tänak on this stage

The car just can’t hold together for a full day

Don't wanna think about how it will handle Sardegna, Kenya & Greece later this year.

[Eli]

How you say so?

We had also coverage on those days. Wrc plus came in 2015 if I remember correct

2014 to be precise, so a tiny bit longer, really hope we'll get Michelin & any other manufacturer come 2025.

[er88]

Both Msport cars can't last a day without niggly issues. Reminds me of the Peugeot 307 at this point. Fingers crossed Msport can try and get on top of things before the next two rough events......

Ominous performance from Kalle so far

[EstWRC]

Ott Tänak has revealed he was carrying a water pump problem throughout Friday’s leg of Rally of Portugal, and only sterling work from M-Sport’s mechanics in the remote tire fitting zone kept him in the rally.

“We were getting some water pump issues, but still on the tire fitting [zone] the mechanics did a bit of magic and some good massage to the water pump.

“So we never expected to survive, but actually it survived all afternoon. So did quite well but yeah obviously the main issues this afternoon were the punctures.

“We got one quite early on the stage and then we damaged the second one as well so we basically had no spare tires. We just had to come through, we couldn’t really risk anything anymore.”

https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/the-h...nak-to-retire/