the WRC rally driver who smacked his co driver

[J4MIE]

I tell you guys I don't mind these things but Pons went way over the line there, and I'll always remember him for it, SWRC champion or not

If I was his co-driver I would have handed in the timecard at the stop line, undone my belts, got out of the car and walked away!!

[janvanvurpa]

In fact, "trop tard" doesn't mean "too slow" (="trop lent"), but "too late"

Yes yes, exactly I was though emphasising the "too"...we have the sameword, via french, in English....Tardy..

But the person i was responding to who endlessly complains and degrades and ridicules virtually every driver in the world is waht is called in English slang a "tard' so i was concentrating on the "too", see?

Idiom sometimes isn't exactly the same, and 'trop tard' could in this particlar context translate as "too late"---since he wasn't addressing if he was s-p-e-a-k-i-n-g s---l-----o-------w-------l--------------y, but "when' the instruction came.

¿Claro?

[janvanvurpa]

Jan, give the guy a break, he's keen and knowledgeable about rallying and doesn't go for the X Games Block is teh best!!!!111111 crap that some seem to believe. So his french isn't perfect.... who cares?

Anybody else, sure. But since he gives every driver endless criticism and further ridicule, I guess he wants the same treatment for himself that he dishes out...

Why NOT? Only fair.

But yeah at least he's not of the Block-brigade so that's something (not too sure what, but sumpin)

[Daniel]

Anybody else, sure. But since he gives every driver endless criticism and further ridicule, I guess he wants the same treatment for himself that he dishes out...

Why NOT? Only fair.

But yeah at least he's not of the Block-brigade so that's something (not too sure what, but sumpin)

Peace out Aiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight *shakes hand like he's up wif da kidz*

[tmx]

Not sure what exactly wrong Xavior did except get a bit mad for a second. Gigi didn't just punch him, he also accidentally threw a water bottle and broke his codriver nose, whom Petter was asking to be his codriver I believe. Its why for the cars they introduced a 'net' thing that separate the drivers and codrivers so they won't punch each other. If you really dig into some other onboard videos from different competition level you'll see some rare footage showing codrivers getting treated worse, like the codriver being scream at through the entire stage after he made one mistake and the driver driving erratically in public road afterward.

I'm not surprised the fact that so many people quickly assume it was Pons with the level of pre-judgment been thrown around. Also its more about what the camera caught than what really happens. I for one didn't like what Loeb said in the interview after Daniel called 'plus plus' instead of 'minus minus' in Japan 2007. Overall I like drivers/codrivers in rally, what mentioned here are certainly still not as crazy as whats going on in F1.

[GigiGalliNo1]

ahhhh... Gigi!

[Mintexmemory]

'putain de bordell' for those non-francophone forum members translates literally as 'whore from a brothel' equivalent to the common UK english usage of 'you worthless tart'.
Mnsr. Ogier has been filmed this season giving Julien seven types of crap over some perceived error