A little later than usual we do the analysis of what happened ruante this weekend in lusas lands. Highlights undoubtedly was the third victory in the absolute level of Sebastien Ogier. French has taken taste to the Rally of Portugal and has managed to repeat the victory of last year, which in turn meant the premiere of his achievements in world Rallye.
See win for Ogier is something that does not end like many, among whom I am, but If there is someone to who bothers him is his companion team, Sebastien Loeb. Seven-time champion saw you for the first time out of their boxes, away from that spirit cold always maintained, after losing half a minute in the incident with Hirvonen.Not have to look far to find which Loeb does not like anything having a pilot as Ogier in the same team. The was comfortable with someone as deaf to his side and moving to have someone as the young Gaul is very uncomfortable. For this reason that Dani was not hiding during the relay in "rigorous live" of the Power Stage that had seen a Loeb with more desire to win than ever.
Bad talk from the Citroen is which tells us that Ford is not over to find the key to be above. Its two official drivers are seen to go always very strong, but times out with more problems than in Gallic cars. Stoking while also problems with the transmission and suspension you are sending with the Ford Fiesta RS WRC and this is something in what should be improved before reaching so hard as Jordan or the Acropolis rally. By now Citroen shows bring advantage over his rival.But if we talk about the problems of M in the absolute category we must not forget of the suffered by the Fiesta R2 of the WRC Academy. Saying it soft, cars not held the impetuous young pace and that left out among others our two representatives and Craig Breen, it had become clear as the fastest. In the end the victory the was a virtually unknown Estonian which as pointed out well my colleague Eloy Entrambasaguas, has gone over the past two years in a two-wheel drive in tests of asphalt and land.
I would also like to talk about The Mini Countryman overproduction that debuted in the last test lusa. Obviously from the first moment we saw that Daniel Oliveira was not going to be a pilot in which look to see the performance. On the other hand Armindo Araujo Yes raised much of the performance and sneaks behind the fifth and ahead of the private. Still own Sordo was cautious saying that a spoiler does not give these two seconds that take them the officials by kilometer.
It now remains to see what happens with the Jordan Rally. Pipo Lopez put it very black during the Sunday, but the truth is that Citroen has half confirmed that if the rally despite the problems encountered in that area of the planet will be disputed. Let us hope that by then we can see a pretty spectacle between the Ford and Citroen, in what will be the last test before the debut of the Mini.