The week after the Rally. The Emperor Sébastien Loeb

We started the season with uncertainty. Some fans were beginning to say after the Rally Sweden, that new cars were not made for Sebastien Loeb could continue with the domain shown in recent years. In Mexico already was in charge of dismantling this theory and after the Rally of Sardinia has left any talk at the bottom of the trunk of memories.
And it is that the pace set during the three stages by Loeb was impressive. So that brings me to break the theory that says which opens currently track on Friday lost long time. It should obviously also be recognized that possibly the conditions were better than at rallies such as Jordan, with a floor less loose by the rains last week and that therefore did that the first barrier as much track.

That was not found during the test, against shown in Jordan or Portugal, was Ogier. French has not hidden the Italian race is not of his favourites, and if we add to this that on the day on Friday lost almost half a minute to get out the fourth in a field that is not cleaned bothIt gives us as a result a fourth place without the possibility of anything else.

Even less lasted Jari-Matti Latvala. The Finnish dumps by a mistake of his co-pilot to sing him a note wrong and said goodbye to any chance of scoring in the rally after losing 35 minutes. From that moment the Finnish flying through the sections and it managed to mark almost all scratch 10 sections that were left for the final two stages. Since then the Ford Fiesta of the Finnish endured many fall during throughout the weekend.

Which seems that do not support nor half are the R2 party of young people in the WRC Academy. After the first stage only four cars registered eighteen continued career. The majority of the dropouts had produced by rupture of the crankcase, something unthinkable for a drink like this, where the main thing is to make kilometres and which should therefore have robust car that absorption much of the impetus of the new stars excesses.

Which not reserved nothing was Ott Tanak. The protege of Markko Martin gave a real lesson for piloting in Sardinia and was able with everything an IRC champion is Juho Hanninen. The Estonian was in better times than Mathew Wilson with the World Rally Car. Okay, is Mathew Wilson, but is that Tanak was in times resembling the markings of Dani Sordo at the wheel of the new Mini Countryman WRC.

The new car of Prodrive has shown to be in the right direction, although some other commentator say not the same, and in Sardinia they completed their debut with a good sixth place. Obviously is hard work and enhancements, but that's the main reason why the team has decided to start running some tests loose this season already. Now deaf Dani has hopes and now is eager to get the season of asphalt.