Rally Japan 2022

[Eli]

Puncture for Evans, 13.9 seconds off the podium, Katsuta now third, was so disappointed for Evans. A Hyundai 1-2 for now.

[becher]

So we have Corsica 2019 again

I for sure hope different outcome for Evans this time

FFS you called it!

[Danny0405]

Hard season for Evans from the beginning to the end.
A bit of a big blow for Toyota to see Hyundai in 1-2 position in their home rally; some team orders to come from the brand to secure Katsuta 3rd spot and hide the failure with some marketing?

[becher]

Old good Ogier
https://twitter.com/paddocknews/stat...80329139224576

So many titles yet so unprofessional.

[Danny0405]

That would be very unprofessional. If one is paid to do a job, one does it until the end no matter what next day will bring. Therefore, I rather believe Craig has problems - or he's conserving tyres.

No problem with the car considering what he is saying... conserving tyres for rain? ... well maybe but his times are totally terrible... even Evans with a puncture did 30+ seconds faster in SS16; he might even not finished in top-20 or top-25 of this stage.

[Eli]

FFS you called it!

Nothing new with Evans unfortunately, Monza 2020 also comes to mind. He did say the pace-notes weren't quite early enough.

[speederbee]

Perhaps Breen is just following a team order to be as safe as possible to get the car home in one piece? After all, he's not going to get a decent result here no matter how fast he goes, and I doubt the team cares about evaluating his performance. So from the team's point of view, why risk flushing money down the drain by having him pointlessly destroy another car?

[Danny0405]

Perhaps Breen is just following a team order to be as safe as possible to get the car home in one piece? After all, he's not going to get a decent result here no matter how fast he goes, and I doubt the team cares about evaluating his performance. So from the team's point of view, why risk flushing money down the drain by having him pointlessly destroy another car?

It’s even less risky not to repair the car and retire for the rest of the rally in that case for almost the same result.

[SubaruNorway]

Nothing to gain with power stage points for Breen either so wouldn't it be better to just do some testing...

[TypeR]

Oh.. started raining and SS18 delayed.. ffs