Rally Mexico 2018

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Poor discipline from this guy's service crew saw his Fabia R5 go up in flames before the rally has even started! Spilled fuel and power tools never a good mix!

Chris

OOOOPPSS!!

Shows why you should always have a fire extinguisher(s) close at hand. They could have had that out very quickly then.

Chris

Chris

You are so right as once those things get properly going there is little to stop them with today's eco friendly extinquishers. Expect there to be a vacancy for a competent service crew!

Meeke fastest on shakedown and Neuville in the lead after the opening street stage with the famous tunnels. Think there could be plenty of bent metal after this weekend as seem to be several drivers with a lot to prove!

Sal the 2nd wrote:Chris

You are so right as once those things get properly going there is little to stop them with today's eco friendly extinquishers. Expect there to be a vacancy for a competent service crew!

Yes correct...our AFFF Fire Extuingishers are useless......Haylon or BCF would have it out in no time..........but they are BAD for the enviroment!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


A car burning to a cinder is OK for the Evviroment !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

End of Day 1 Rallye Mexico

and Sordo leads from guess who…Sebastian Loeb in 2nd from Kris Meeke back in 4th.

Watch Day 1 highlights

https://www.redbull.tv/video/AP-1TVBV7MA51W11/recap-mexico-day-1?playlist=AP-1TW958CND1W11:live_programs

So Loeb getting some practice in for the main event, next weekend's British Rallycross Championship season opener at Silverstone.

Anyone else going from here?

Cheers, Steve

Loeb dropped down the order a little bit but what a run. Sunday looks like a shootout between Kris and the other Seb!

1 Ogier S. - Ingrassia J.
6 Sordo Dani - Del Barrio Carlos
10 Meeke Kris - Nagle Paul
4 Mikkelsen Andreas - Jæger A.
11 Loeb Sébastien - Elena Daniel

Billy

Not sure where you have got the actual top ten finishers from. On the wrc site it says

That is a fantastic result for Brit Gus Greensmith in 9th, with down in Lappi 11th and Suninen 12th

1. 1 FRA S. OGIER 3:53:58.0
2. 6 ESP D. SORDO 3:55:11.6 +1:13.6 +1:13.6
3. 10 GBR K. MEEKE 3:55:27.2 +15.6 +1:29.2
4. 4 NOR A. MIKKELSEN 3:55:46.4 +19.2 +1:48.4
5. 11 FRA S. LOEB 3:56:32.6 +46.2 +2:34.6
6. 5 BEL T. NEUVILLE 4:03:11.0 +6:38.4 +9:13.0
7. 31 SWE P. TIDEMAND 4:04:32.7 +1:21.7 +10:34.7
8. 7 FIN J. LATVALA 4:09:45.1 +5:12.4 +15:47.1
9. 38 GBR G. GREENSMITH 4:11:17.3 +1:32.2 +17:19.3
10. 39 CHL P. HELLER 4:18:26.1 +7:08.8 +24:28.1

Great result for Seb 2 but clearly Seb 1 still has it - i would have liked to see him win it ( i think)

I see Seb 2 lost his power stage points for hitting a chicane but M-Sport are appealing

sorry chris, not sure what happened my highly professional copy, delete and paste procedure there with positions 9 and 10, lol!! sorted now.... indeed your top 10 list is spot on, thanks m8!

Billy

No problem a bit of dyslexia of the fingers.

If Loeb had won it would have set the cat amongst the pigeons and heaped a bit of pressure on the Citroen drivers by saying there is nothing wrong with the car.

Chris

Reading back my post and it looks like I had some typing problems as well ...must be catching?

lol i think mines just old age m8, no excuses

meeke seems to have had another rush of blood to the head but id be happy if he had a season of podiums to mature a bit...the odd win gets overshadowed by inconsistency unfortunately....i believe he has potential to challenge ogier if he can learn to temper his enthusiasm a tad... but then again i could be wrong lol!!

Absolutely, with Loeb putting in such strong performance it really does put the pressure on the other Citroen drivers to say there is not much wrong with the car, so lets get on with it.

So we all hope Kris can put together run of good results. Clearly he is quick, so lets do a Burnsie and go for percentages - to finish first you first have to finish.

But sadly like Hirvonen, Latvala et all they were around on the championship at the same time as two of the very best. The rest dont get many chances to win.

Chris

yep, luck and timing both play their part in the chances of anyone other than a seb winning a championship...