2008 Rallye Deutschland - official thread

[Daniel]

I am delighted to see that Wilson's masterplan backfired and all Duval managed to do was take points of Hirvonen and the Ford team (unless he takes some time penalties on the way back to service)

It would seem to make sense to put Dudu in the car for Corsica and Catalunya. JML is just not reliable enough yet and Sordo is likely to perform well there and take good points for Citroen.

Good drive from Mikko, I had forgotten how good he is on tarmac. Actually convincingly quicker than JML for about the first time since Monte.

Methinks the FIA and Malcom had a cordial chat about how they view the use of other teams in team orders in a very dim view. We all know Malcolm would sell his left testicle to get the best results for his factory drivers and there's no way he would have willingly allowed Duval to stay in front of Mikko.

[c4]

Vids including Aava's off
http://rallybuzz.stagetimes.com/adac...lts-loeb-wins/

[Brother John]

If Duvalis driving the BP/abu dhabi/karcher/castrol/ etc car, will Structo still have to pay for the car? Or will Latvalla drive the Stobart Stucto car ? In that case, they must make sure the Structo name is readable upside down, so the sponsors will get publicity when Latvalla is rolling the car .

Structo have bought the car. Only service and parts must be paid. mokin:

[alleskids]

So only registration will be under BP Ford banner, if Duval wil be the tarmac driver for BP Ford, and Latvalla wil drive his normal BP Ford car?

[Mauri A]

Good theory from World Rally Radio Colin... drops Latvala for Tarmac and replace with Duval

Molto, molto stupido! What Latvala needs is kms on tarmac. We need drivers who can master tarmac, gravel and snow, no gravel or tarmac specialists. More kms on gravel for Sordo and more kms for Latvala on tarmac!

[HaCo]

Don't if it has been posted, but Latvala's off: http://www.brightcove.tv/title.jsp?title=1733282495

Mauri: they could drop him to an M2 team, where he could get experience without any pressure. Would that still be stupid? But of course that would be stupid for Duval, because he gets the pressure in his place.

[Mauri A]

Don't if it has been posted, but Latvala's off: http://www.brightcove.tv/title.jsp?title=1733282495

Mauri: they could drop him to an M2 team, where he could get experience without any pressure. Would that still be stupid? But of course that would be stupid for Duval, because he gets the pressure in his place.

Good point, but I think experience without pressure is not enough!

[Motorsportfun]

http://www.racingworld.it/rally/noti...rdisti-e-sordo

Team-mates and Citroen's Dani Sordo visited Gigi Galli this evening in hospital in Trier.

[MartijnS]

Very nice action of those guys!

We got back from the rally yesterday, another great wrc experience with 4 stages on Friday and 4 yesterday. Pics are online, the video will be there within an half hour @ http://www.rallymedia.nl !

[J4MIE]

Methinks the FIA and Malcom had a cordial chat about how they view the use of other teams in team orders in a very dim view. We all know Malcolm would sell his left testicle to get the best results for his factory drivers and there's no way he would have willingly allowed Duval to stay in front of Mikko.

Actually I think Malcolm Wilson has had a few years now of not forcing drivers to take penalties unlike back in the McRae/Sainz days. He let Mikko win in Norway last year and also didn't get him to take a penalty in Germany after Marcus's mistake. Which would have meant a much better chance of Marcus winning the championship.