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Post by tfliprex on May 18, 2010 20:29:52 GMT
This is the entry list for Rally Portugal. Flip
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Post by Hurricane on May 20, 2010 17:34:27 GMT
Tippings for Rally Portugal 2010 are open now! Entry list: click hereExtra question: What car will win in the J-WRC category? Entries for this tipping round close on: Thursday, May 27th, 07h00 GMTMy tips: Top 8: 1. S. Loeb 2. P. Solberg 3. J. Latvala 4. M. Hirvonen 5. S. Ogier 6. F. Villagra 7. H. Solberg 8. M. Wilson Scratch: P. Solberg Extra: Citroën C2 S1600
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Post by loebfan on May 20, 2010 21:49:40 GMT
Here are my tips:
1) S.Loeb 2)M.Hirvonen 3)S.Ogier 4)P.Solberg 5)D.Sordo 6)J.Latvala 7)J.Cuoq 8)M.wilson
Scratch: J.Latvala Extra: Citroen C2 R2 Max
I've put some risky entries but who knows? I'm expecting Matthieu Arzeno to surprise us the way he did in January during Monte-Carlo
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Post by tfliprex on May 22, 2010 4:39:07 GMT
1. S. Loeb 2. P. Solberg 3. M. Hirvonen 4. S. Ogier 5. D. Sordo 6. J. Latvala 7. F. Villagra 8. H. Solberg
Scratch: P. Solberg Extra: Citroën C2 S1600
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Post by Mixa on May 24, 2010 7:47:34 GMT
hard one to pull specially when some Citroen drivers has been on excellent form . Its all for fun so lets go with risk 1. S.Loeb 2. S.Ogier 3. P.Solberg 4. D.Sordo 5. M.Hirvonen 6. J-M Latvala 7. M.Wilson 8. H.Solberg Scratch: S.Ogier extra: Renault Clio R3 ps. and yes watch for Arzeno at his C2 R2 Max. His only problem indeed might be an aggressive and fast pace and on Portugal the roads will get quite bad as before juniors there are WRC,privateer WRC´s but also S2000´s.
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Post by Vivski on May 25, 2010 14:23:44 GMT
1. S.Loeb 2. S.Ogier 3. P.Solberg 4. M.Hirvonen 5. J-M Latvala 6. D.Sordo 7. K.Raikkonen 8. M.Wilson
Scratch: P.Solberg extra: Renault Clio R3
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Post by Vivski on May 25, 2010 14:24:53 GMT
Top 3 of the S2000 cars: 1. J.Hanninen 2. PG.Andersson 3. X.Pons
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Post by mbmz3 on May 27, 2010 11:52:41 GMT
1. S Loeb 2. M Hirvonen 3. S Ogier 4. JM Latvala 5. P Solberg 6. D Sordo 7. H Solberg 8 K Raikkonen
scratch: D Sordo extra: Suzuki Swift S1600
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Post by tfliprex on May 27, 2010 12:31:05 GMT
Rally Portugal Shakedown
1. OGIER. Citroen C4 WRC. 3:05.0 2. P. SOLBERG. Citroen C4 WRC. 3:06.3 3. LOEB. Citroen C4 WRC. 3:07.3 4. SORDO. Citroen C4 WRC. 3:07.9 5. HIRVONEN. Ford Focus RS WRC 09. 3:08.0 6. LATVALA. Ford Focus RS WRC 09. 3:08.4 7. H. SOLBERG. Ford Focus RS WRC 08. 3:09.2 8. RAIKKONEN. Citroen C4 WRC. 3:10.0 9. VILLAGRA. Ford Focus RS WRC 08. 3:11.1 10. WILSON. Ford Focus RS WRC 08. 3:12.1 11. Al QASSIMI. Ford Focus RS WRC 09. 3:12.2 12. BLOCK. Ford Focus RS WRC 08. 3:15.7
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Post by Will on May 27, 2010 20:16:17 GMT
OH SHI
1 - S Loeb 2 - S Ogier 3 - P Solberg 4 - M Hirvonen 5 - J Latvala 6 - D Sordo 7 - M Wilson 8 - H Solberg
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Post by tfliprex on May 29, 2010 15:56:39 GMT
What a rollercoaster ride for Petter and Dani. Petter seems to have the upper hand right now. Ogier is doing a fine job, he just needs to keep Loeb off of his back, but it isn't over yet, one more day to go through. I am amazed how bad the Ford boys have been doing so far, well actually I am more surprised of how Hirvonen isn't delivering; I don't think much of Latvala, but Hirvonen?!?! What is going on with him? At this pace, the point difference between him and Loeb will only increase to Loeb's advantage. I wonder what's going on with him... Is the car the problem? Last year Ford was really giving the C4 head-aches, but so far this year Ford seems to have lost steam; but there is one more day to go through and we are half way done with the 2010 season, so there could be changes, but if Hirvonen doesn't wake-up, the the top 3 drivers for 2010 will be Loeb, Solberg and Ogier. But as the saying goes here in the USA: "don't count your chicken before they hatch" so predictions are just guess work at best; but yet a pattern for the 2010 season is developing. Tfliprex
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Post by Hurricane on May 30, 2010 13:45:59 GMT
Ogier's taken his maiden WRC victory! Awesome performance from him!
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Post by Mixa on May 30, 2010 18:50:38 GMT
Yeah first win for Ogier and Im really happy for that. Many rally fans are wondering whats going on with Ford. Specially by noticements Loeb´s and Ogier´s tyres hardly go to bad condition while everyone else is complaining the problems. Also when we remember the freeze in cars performance,maybe Citroen has still done something. All the changes to Citroen´s favor actually started when Ford said that them still might work with the car.
Anyway Citroen at the moment is a better car. Ford has problems with its rear tyres and balance by drivers (JML and Mikko) and both are complaining that engines dont feel to deliver enough power and also the back end of the car is very loose,specially when carrying spare tyres. I dont also know whats going on with Mikko but his pace this year has been lost and has even done a lot of mistakes. Seb is on his own,while sweeping the road,we have seen that but still the gap for Hirvonen is huge now. Of course in this rally JML once again went off the road and Hirvonen had to play it safe to score some manufacturer points. Also typical JML, he thought once again to drive for victories and was even speaking for world championship fight and BOOM... the guy just dont never learn and it hurts the team.
Still the most mad in this rally Im for Petter. You fool ruined my good tippings on the last stage XD
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Post by tfliprex on May 31, 2010 5:29:53 GMT
Oh dear me. What the hell was Petter thinking? Again messing up on the last stage, he should of kept his cool but again he was thinking about winning against Sordo; Petter really needs to rethink his last stage strategy, and look at my tipping awesome win by petit Seb, he did a wonderful job. I hope that the next rally will be successful, but he did say that Tarmac testing is needed because he has not done enough runs with the C4 on that type of roads. Loeb did great as well, I think that he tried hard to catch up with Ogier, but on Sunday I think he concentrated more on staying in second position in order for Ogier to win; but he did try on Friday and Sunday to beat him. Ford has some serious problems, manufacturers points are slowing down and the drivers are not mentally prepared. Latvala is, at this point, always expected to either crash out or do enough damage to the car that his hopes to win simply vanish. Hirvonen ha more issues than the car, too much pressure on him to beat Loeb or something else is affecting him, probably his hasn't fully recovered from his back injury that he sustained last year, do you guys remember that after rally GB he had mentioned in a WRC interview that he ha hurt his back? Any way, Citroen's manuf. Points are only getting further away from Ford's. Loeb and Ogier at this point can feel more confidant in giving Citroen more manuf points because of Ford's multiple problems. I just hope that Petter realizes that the last stage is important, but that his focus should not slip, Mills should hit him on the head a couple of times for me, because my tippings are slipping. Flip
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Post by Will on May 31, 2010 11:59:19 GMT
Mills was always a calming character, he'll kick some sense into Petter Fantastic to see someone else winning a rally that isn't a works Citroen or Ford ;D Great drive by Ogier and held his own very well. Ford are in deep.... yeah they're in trouble now.
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