20 May 2008
WRC 2008 Round6 d’Italia Sardegna
Posted by Wutaku under: Auto; WRC .
The round 6 of WRC takes place in Italy. The stages take place in Sardegna of Italy. The roads are full of gravel and are extremely narrow. Any mistakes, and the drivers will pay dearly for it. Petter Solberg did extremely well in day1, he got into the third position by the end of the day. However, in day 2 the curse of the Subaru occurred. In the very first stage, the car did not have any grip and he described the car as “undrivable”. In the stages to come, the hood of the subaru flipped open and smash his windshield. He had to stop the car to allow his co-pilot to close the hood but at the same time, he also got a rear flat. That basically took him out of top 10 finish. Chris Atkinson also did poorly compare to his previous races. He placed six at the end of the round. The winner of the rally was Sebastien Loeb, second place is Mikko Hirvonen and third is Jari-Matti Latvala. The flying fins were the center of attention in day 3. In the beginning of day 3, they were tied with 29.4 seconds after Loeb. I must say I am truly impress that Loeb was able to hold both of them off and drove so well under imense pressure. For Petter, everything will change for the next rally in Greece because he will drive the all new STi. We can only wait until next week to see if the new vehicles lifts the Subaru curse.
Worse crash in Round 6 of 2008 WRC: