***The Official Rally Mexico Thread***

[Allyc85]

Just incredible from everyone at Msport, getting that fixed in 3 hours!

Love the story about the pace notes, I did see a picture of them being dried on the hotel room floor!

[Skylinecrazy]

Mexico is certainly an interesting one..

Could Elfyn get a podium? He's one of the most consistent guys left in it. I also think JML will catch Ogier today.

[BOBTEE]

M-Sport are awesome!

[iva cosworth]

Wow,I'm not following this rally closely but I'd never have thought they could get that Fiesta ready

again so quickly.

Deffo a retirement....nope !

[Allyc85]

Tanak has stopped on the road section, crew are on the phone to the mechanics...

Edit: and is now moving again!

Edit: and has stopped again...

Edited by Allyc85 on Saturday 7th March 15:41

[iva cosworth]

Water in the electrics shirley ?

[Allyc85]

One of the few things that wasn't changed was the wiring loom so I would imagine there is a dodgy connection/water in there somewhere.

Easy win for Ogier now Latvala has blown it ripping a wheel off. Might as well give Seb the title really, no one can get near his pace and consistency.

Meeke pretty close to going off on the live stage just now!

[Allyc85]

Spectators were lucky here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nBHj3Vqky0

[Pwig]

Stupid place to put a spectator area mind.

[Allyc85]

Should just give Ogier the title now after another crushing victory. Nobody can get near his pace and consistency!

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/117956

[DanielSan]

I wonder if he could manage to win every round? It's not like the rallies are endurance events now so they certainly aren't car killers unless they crash.

[iva cosworth]

DanielSan said:

I wonder if he could manage to win every round? It's not like the rallies are endurance events now so they certainly aren't car killers unless they crash.

Without researching,how close did Loeb get to doing just that ?

Entirely possible seeing as everybody else throws their cars off the road at random.

[K50 DEL]

Still amazed that the commentary team made no mention of Louise Aitken Walker, it's not as if this is the first time a crew have ended up in a lake......

[Alex Langheck]

K50 DEL said:

Still amazed that the commentary team made no mention of Louise Aitken Walker, it's not as if this is the first time a crew have ended up in a lake......

Can they remember that far back? Or are they even aware of her? It was 1990. Pre-2000 WRC tends to not get mentioned too often, that was 'old skool' WRC. Also, that's before the rights changed to IMS/NorthOne.

Edited by Alex Langheck on Sunday 15th March 14:30

[DanielSan]

iva cosworth said:

Without researching,how close did Loeb get to doing just that ?

Entirely possible seeing as everybody else throws their cars off the road at random.

Off the top of my head I'm not sure. He can't have been far away?

[Alex Langheck]

Loeb won 11/15 in 2008. Which is pretty incredible really; he ran first on the road on all events - and the events he didn't win were on snow, and dry dusty gravel.

[Allyc85]

Rally Mexico organisers are looking to make the event tougher next year, sounds good to me!

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/118090

[Pwig]

Excellent, great news!

[Alex Langheck]

Great news, and I bet there are complaints from the teams/ drivers. Can you imagine any of the current lot trying to do the Safari? Toys out of the pram methinks.....
250 miles of stages is nothing, if it was 350-400 then that would be a proper test.

[Allyc85]

And in other good news Red Bull have started to actually promote the WRC, releasing short highlight videos of the first few rounds!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LRS7RJaL5M