WRC Rally Italia Sardegna 2025

**meh** · 7th June 2025, 14:22

Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC

Did they show Fourmaux's crash ?

Only the car on the roof from the Ogier board cam.

**NoBudgetWRT** · 7th June 2025, 14:27

Did Ogier opened his belts before stage finish?

**EstWRC** · 7th June 2025, 14:28

This is 7th! year in a row where Fourmaux doesn’t finish the rally at all or finishes with super rally.

He just has to let go that he can’t compete with Tänak and Neuville on the pace, which seems his main goal since Monte where he started off well, at least for me it seems so that he really wants show a place for Tänak and Neuville.

**focus206** · 7th June 2025, 14:40

Originally Posted by EstWRC

He just has to let go that he can’t compete with Tänak and Neuville on the pace, which seems his main goal since Monte where he started off well, at least for me it seems so that he really wants show a place for Tänak and Neuville.

I have the same feeling as well. Smart thing for him would have been a solid season made of many top 5 and some podiums. Either it's like you say or he just finds the i20 too unpredictable compared to the Puma, but I don't recall Fourmaux ever saying so.

**Rallyper** · 7th June 2025, 15:02

Fourmaux is fast but not yet consistent. So he´d better drive his own rally with a pace that easily gives him a 4-6th place.

**Fast Eddie WRC** · 7th June 2025, 15:27

Originally Posted by Rallyper

Fourmaux is fast but not yet consistent. So he´d better drive his own rally with a pace that easily gives him a 4-6th place.

"It's easier to make a fast driver consistent, than a consistent driver fast."

**BlueStrike** · 7th June 2025, 15:42

Interesting that Ott referred to FWD multiple times today. Could mean that the car tends to push on through the corners, which would fit with the understeer tendency in low grip mentioned upthread.

Or maybe the Hyundai is just broken again, who knows.

**meh** · 7th June 2025, 15:43

Without Tänak vs Ogier it could be just cruising already. Without Super Sunday tomorrow, it could be boring like hell.

**EstWRC** · 7th June 2025, 15:48

These two rallies have been such a dejavu from last season. Ogier won in Portugal last year because of Tanaks puncture and this year because of power steering.

And now Sardinia, last year the gap before Sunday was 17 seconds to Ogier and now it is 11 seconds while Tanak has had a broken damper and a slow puncture. On Sunday last year Tanak got the gap down to 6 seconds before the power stage.

Let’s see tomorrow how it plays out this year

**COD** · 7th June 2025, 16:09

Originally Posted by Rallyper

Fourmaux is fast but not yet consistent. So he´d better drive his own rally with a pace that easily gives him a 4-6th place.

I don’t think so, that would put him to same pace with Pajari, and with his experience he should do more. He has some really rotten luck this year, but also too many mistakes. But he is fast