Rally Germany day 2, Olympics
Aug. 16th, 2008 01:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
was_tansu_now_badhedgehogGigi Galli's crash yesterday didn't just end his rally, it ended his season. He broke his femur, and he's had it pinned now. Poor bloke. The two Citroëns of Loeb and Sordo have been fastest, probably because they made the better tyre choice, going on the hard tyres whereas the Fords took the soft option. Sordo is stretching his lead from Hirvonen.
On stage 8, Per-Gunnar Andersson clipped a kerb and buggered his right rear wheel, so he'll have lost a lot of time limping through stage 9 before service. In the other Suzuki, Toni Gardemeister is carrying on well.
Not a great day for Jari-Matti Latvala. He started well in stages 7 and 8, staying in fifth position, but on stage 9 he rolled the car close to the finish and lost quite a bit of time. Because of the damage to the car, he was late into the service park and picked up a 30 second penalty as well, which put him into 9th overall. Apparently he had a wrong pace note (his fault, or his codriver's fault? Hmmm...) going into a straw bale chicane near the end of the stage; took far too much speed into it, and to avoid the bales tried to take a detour through a field. There was a ditch, and... it was all so predictable. I didn't hear the end of stage quick interviews because I didn't have World Rally Radio on at the time, but I hear that he was quite upset. He knows he's fucked up and potentially missed out on important team points. Again.
Very good pace from the two Subarus - Atko and Petter Solberg holding 5th and 6th position nicely.
Loeb kept on winning all the stages, until the last one, which Sordo won. Seb had actually had his engine tuned down a little, in order to preserve it for the next few tarmac events. Still very very fast though. Hirvonen had already conceded second place to Sordo, and then unfortunately suffered a puncture on the last stage of the day, losing 30 seconds which put him down to fourth, behind Duval. Latvala was terribly mournful at the end of all the afternoon's stages - the mistake in the morning knocked him flat, poor chap.
Great to see our coxless four winning. I'd really thought that they'd left it too late to catch the Australian boat. They looked right fucked at the end of it.
Finally got to see the Adlington win her 800m freestyle - that was something else!
Didn't see Bradley Wiggins win his pursuit gold, because i've just been out for a nice walk. The sun came out, so I expect I will have picked up something of a farmer's tan.
edit: 100m men, OMFG. That bloke Bolt is just out of this fucking world. He broke his own world record and won by bloody miles even though he slowed down and started celebrating at about 80m. Has he, like, discovered flight or something and had to slow down in case he took off? Incredible.
On stage 8, Per-Gunnar Andersson clipped a kerb and buggered his right rear wheel, so he'll have lost a lot of time limping through stage 9 before service. In the other Suzuki, Toni Gardemeister is carrying on well.
Not a great day for Jari-Matti Latvala. He started well in stages 7 and 8, staying in fifth position, but on stage 9 he rolled the car close to the finish and lost quite a bit of time. Because of the damage to the car, he was late into the service park and picked up a 30 second penalty as well, which put him into 9th overall. Apparently he had a wrong pace note (his fault, or his codriver's fault? Hmmm...) going into a straw bale chicane near the end of the stage; took far too much speed into it, and to avoid the bales tried to take a detour through a field. There was a ditch, and... it was all so predictable. I didn't hear the end of stage quick interviews because I didn't have World Rally Radio on at the time, but I hear that he was quite upset. He knows he's fucked up and potentially missed out on important team points. Again.
Very good pace from the two Subarus - Atko and Petter Solberg holding 5th and 6th position nicely.
Loeb kept on winning all the stages, until the last one, which Sordo won. Seb had actually had his engine tuned down a little, in order to preserve it for the next few tarmac events. Still very very fast though. Hirvonen had already conceded second place to Sordo, and then unfortunately suffered a puncture on the last stage of the day, losing 30 seconds which put him down to fourth, behind Duval. Latvala was terribly mournful at the end of all the afternoon's stages - the mistake in the morning knocked him flat, poor chap.
Great to see our coxless four winning. I'd really thought that they'd left it too late to catch the Australian boat. They looked right fucked at the end of it.
Finally got to see the Adlington win her 800m freestyle - that was something else!
Didn't see Bradley Wiggins win his pursuit gold, because i've just been out for a nice walk. The sun came out, so I expect I will have picked up something of a farmer's tan.
edit: 100m men, OMFG. That bloke Bolt is just out of this fucking world. He broke his own world record and won by bloody miles even though he slowed down and started celebrating at about 80m. Has he, like, discovered flight or something and had to slow down in case he took off? Incredible.
