[WRC] Rallye Monte Carlo 2024

[dimviii]

Solberg retires for today...

Edit: Two punctures and one spare...

The only one with one spare....

[denkimi]

So you’re saying he is lying?

A stage win for Tänak over two years in Monte Carlo shared with Neuville

I would say it's messing with the competition. Maybe he's not telling the truth, but i wouldn't call that lying.

[RS]

Pajari quick on splits finally.

[Morte66]

From watching the onboards, I think Neuville has been pushing a little harder and taking a bit more risk than Evans. He had the little half-spin, but no big off.

At the start this morning Neuville was a little behind, but he'd saved his tyres more. So that seemed very evenly matched, hard to say who would finish first.

So far today Evans has dropped off a bit, probably partly from the running order change and partly from his technical problems.

[EstWRC]

Relax Tänak just says out everything as issues when things are not ideal. If there was some big issue, he could not fight for a stage win.

The issue mustn’t be big, it can cost also 2-5 seconds to you which can decide a lot.

Doesn’t mean he can’t drive fast still

[meh]

Pajari quick on splits finally.

a phone ringing...
"... hello?"
"moi Sami, Jari here... you know... we have clients canceling their orders for new car... can you please show some faster times".

[EstWRC]

Finally a decent time from Pajari!

Great to see

[Morte66]

Finally a decent time from Pajari!

Great to see

I wonder if he'll decide to go for it on that stage this afternoon.

[Integrale]

I would say it's messing with the competition. Maybe he's not telling the truth, but i wouldn't call that lying.

Did you guys ever had a mic shoved into your face? Most people start talking. The thing that's on their mind will come out first. It doesn't matter if it results in big time loss or not.

It's actually a journalism trick to leave the mic there after the interviewee 'finished'. People have the tendancy to keep talking if the mic is there, they feel obliged.

Neuville does this as well. The pronunciation issues in the last stage between him and Martijn are something that is best left between them, I would've thought. But we know Neuville starts blabbering at stage ends and it's also nice to know what's on his mind. 😁

[meh]

Did you guys ever had a mic shoved into your face?

Put a lot of adrenaline into the context, just drive over the finish line and those are the first seconds to think about the finished stage. It's not some calm, calculated and PR-department validated text that comes out there.

I'm glad we have those interviews.