Wrc Vodafone Rally de Portugal 2013

**rage82** · 8th April 2013, 11:15

Watching the results from saturday Kubica was sixth on the second run slightly faster than Neuville and on the 3-rd run he was 5-th, only 0.9 sec. behind Mads. Maybe he can be a proper challenger on gravel also in wrc-2 category. What do you guys think about that?

**Francis44** · 8th April 2013, 11:23

Originally Posted by rage82

Watching the results from saturday Kubica was sixth on the second run slightly faster than Neuville and on the 3-rd run he was 5-th, only 0.9 sec. behind Mads. Maybe he can be a proper challenger on gravel also in wrc-2 category. What do you guys think about that?

Neuville only ran once. Plus in his first pass Kubica was quite alot slower than Moura in a Evo IX.

I believe he will be a contender on gravel but not just yet, he will be seeing the stages for the first time. Maybe later in the year.

**dimviii** · 8th April 2013, 13:28

Originally Posted by rage82

Watching the results from saturday Kubica was sixth on the second run slightly faster than Neuville and on the 3-rd run he was 5-th, only 0.9 sec. behind Mads. Maybe he can be a proper challenger on gravel also in wrc-2 category. What do you guys think about that?

as Francis said watch the diff with Moura.It is to early to have conclusions at gravel for Robert.Don t expect same performance as asphalt.

**rallyfun** · 8th April 2013, 13:40

Originally Posted by rage82

Watching the results from saturday Kubica was sixth on the second run slightly faster than Neuville and on the 3-rd run he was 5-th, only 0.9 sec. behind Mads. Maybe he can be a proper challenger on gravel also in wrc-2 category. What do you guys think about that?

He is going to shake up WRC next season if he stays in ralling, also he brings publicity and media interest to WRC on a different scale than Raikkonen. It's opportunity for FIA to take WRC to another level.

**rage82** · 8th April 2013, 15:00

Originally Posted by dimviii

as Francis said watch the diff with Moura.It is to early to have conclusions at gravel for Robert.Don t expect same performance as asphalt.

Of course I'm not expecting the same performance as on tarmac but the diff with Moura was 6 sec. in 1-st run and Kubica was faster with 2.5 sec. on the last run. I'm not thinking that Kubica will be the fastest guy in wrc-2 just straight out of the box but it looks like he's fast.

P.S I didn't watch the live coverage, now I see that Neuville did some donuts in his run so his time is incomparable with Kubica's one.