Catalunya Rally starts today

[Venom]

So who's going to win?

Asphalt rally will probably favour either Solberg or Loeb would be my guess. Has Burns stuffed his chances or the world title by not pushing harder sooner?

This is why I love rallying - two events to go and the result is going down to the wire. F1 had to make a heap of rule changes to make things this interesting.

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[agent006]

Venom said:

Has Burns stuffed his chances or the world title by not pushing harder sooner?

That's the trouble, he's pushing as hard as he can. He just doesn't suit the 206. He said this when he first signede for them, he felt cramped in the car and found it a challenge to drive.

I think solberg has a fair chance, subaru have made lots of changes to his car.

[FourWheelDrift]

Clever money's on Sainz.

Loeb and Solberg pushing are more likely to stuff it into a tree.

Burns needs as many points as he can get as you can never rule him out winning Rally GB.

[Venom]

agent006 said:

That's the trouble, he's pushing as hard as he can. He just doesn't suit the 206. He said this when he first signede for them, he felt cramped in the car and found it a challenge to drive.

Good point. Having been there for two years you'd have thought that they'd have made a better job of improving his feel in the car.

Still, I've not been convinced he's been pushing as hard as he can. Too often this season I've got the impression that he's been playing the percentages rather than going nuts over the side. It looked like a strategy that was going to work up until the last couple of races but now that he's been overhauled for the lead by Sainz I'm being swayed towards the old spaniard.