Originally Posted by sblvro

loeb, solberg, gronholm using the evo platform in doing a scouting drive of the terrain in mexico, wrc 05

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Originally Posted by awddrifter

I totally agree. Gilles is the tarmac EXPERT, and hes getting good at gravel too. If you ever watched Catalunya 2003, you would know what I mean. Gilles was behind Sebastien Loeb by a lot on the last stage (30 secs or so if i remember correctly), and it was raining REAL hard out. On that famous hairpin corner where Gilles did the intentional donut for the crowd in 2002, Loeb went through the corner really slow, didn't even break the rear end loose, becuase it was so incredibly slippery out (and I believe that both Loeb and Gilles were on dry tarmac tires). When Gilles took the corner, he came in sliding COMPLETLEY sideways (like 90 degrees), and caught the inside "lip" of the corner with his front wheel, and floored it all the way through. If he didn't catch that tiny "lip" in the corner (where the road meets the grass), he would have gone flying off the road into the spectators he was going so fast. He ended up 13 secs ahead of Loeb at the end of the last stage and won. This clip of him doing this AMAZING corner i havent seen on any rally vids unfortunatley, and I only saw it on TV, I always wonder why it isnt in one. (its the same corner as the one Gronholm is shown taking in the 2003 recap video with the Music "Cosmic Gate - Exporation of Space", at 1:42 in, but thats Gronholm and not Gilles, the one of Gilles is taken with the camera pointing up at the corner from the bottom of it, not from the top pointing down like in the Gronholm one. Gronholm is going like 5x slower than Gilles was in that corner ).

Anyone have that clip? you will know what I mean if you've seen it.

Also, Gilles won a stage at Monte this year, and came 2nd, 3rd, 4th in a bunch too. He was down thge leaderboard quite a bit after the first day because there were problems with the gearbox (wouldn't shift withthe paddle so he had to revert it to manual control) and the handbrake (which broke on one of the stages). If there were no probs with his car and no probs with anyone elses, I think he still would have come in 3rd. And lets face it, the Lancer WRC still isn't as good as the Xsara or the Impreza WRC cars.... If all of the drivers were in the same cars gilles would win.


Anyways, enough of my mindless ranting....

Originally Posted by Terry S

Someone posted up a video of that turn.. I have it saved on my computer at home..

Terry S