WRC 2011 Round 06 : Rally Argentina

[luieluv]

Rally Argentina 2011 : 26/05/2011 to 29/05/2011

Round 6

Categories:
WRC, PWRC

Based:
Cordoba-Villa Carlos Paz

Surface:
Gravel

Most Recent Winner:
Sebastien Loeb (2009)

Website:
- www.rallyargentina.com


Argentina, which first hosted a round of the World Rally Championship in 1980, is back on the WRC trail after a year away in 2010.

Based in Villa Carlos Paz north of the capital Buenos Aires, the town lies on the banks of the spectacular San Roque Lake in the south of the Punilla Valley close to the city of Cordoba.

The event is popularised by its jumps, water splashes and the lunar landscape of the high altitude El Condor stage, not to mention the tens of thousands of fans who line the route, and who are considered some of the most enthusiastic on the planet.

Although they are flowing in nature, the stages in Argentina are renowned for being slightly slower but more technically demanding than some of the other tests drivers experience in the WRC.

The surface is also quite sandy, which increases the risk of punctures because of a greater likelihood of rocks being pulled into the road by the competing cars. Because the road surface is softer, ruts can form following the first pass.

Argentina’s Southern Hemisphere location means the rally will take place just before the start of the country’s winter from June to September, which will increase the challenge facing the crews as they negotiate the testing terrain in colder and wetter conditions.

[luieluv]

ITINERARY Rally Argentina 2011

Time in brackets - UK GMT +1

Thursday 26 May: Day 1 Carlos Paz - Carlos Paz


SS1 Super Especial Carlos Paz I 3.02km 15.05 [Thursday, 26 May 2011, 19:25]

Friday 27 May: Day 1 (continued) Carlos Paz

Serv A Carlos Paz (15 mins) 06.55 [Friday, 27 May 2011, 10:55] 


SS2 El Mirador / San Lorenzo I 18.23km 09.36

SS3 Mina Clavero / Giulio Cesare I 22.67km 10.08 

SS4 El Condor / Cuesta Blanca I 37.32km 11.01 


Serv B Carlos Paz (30 mins) 12.21 
[16:21]

SS5 El Mirador / San Lorenzo II 18.23km 15.17

SS6 Mina Clavero / Giulio Cesare II 22.67km 15.49

SS7 El Condor / Cuesta Blanca II 37.32km 16.42


Serv C Carlos Paz (45 mins) 17.55 [21:55]

Finish Carlos Paz 18.40

Saturday 28 May: Day 2 Carlos Paz

Serv D Carlos Paz (15 mins) 07.28 
[Saturday, 28 May 2011, 11:28]

SS8 Las Jarillas / Falda del Carmen I 21.57km 08.13 

SS9 Las Bajadas / Villa del Dique I 16.57km 09.46 

SS10 Amboy / Santa Monica I 20.33km 10.32

SS11 Santa Rosa / San Agustin I 21.36km 11.13


Serv E Carlos Paz (30 mins) 13.08 [17:08]


SS12 Las Jarillas / Falda del Carmen II 21.57km 14.08 

SS13 Las Bajadas / Villa del Dique II 16.57km 15.41 

SS14 Amboy / Santa Monica II 20.33km 16.27

SS15 Santa Rosa / San Agustin II 21.36km 17.08


Serv F Carlos Paz (45 mins) 19.06 [23:06] 

Finish Carlos Paz 19.51

Sunday 29 May: Day 3 - Carlos Paz

Serv G Carlos Paz (15 mins) 06.06 
[Sunday, 29 May 2011, 10:06}

SS16 Ascochinga / Agua de Oro 48.21km 08.09 

SS17 Cabalango / Villa Garcia 3.90km 10.27

SS18 Super Especial Carlos Paz II 3.02km 11.38

SS19 Cabalango / Villa Garcia 3.90km 12.10


Serv H Carlos Paz (10 mins) 12.50 [16:50]

Finish Carlos Paz 13.00
10:43 pm (16 minutes ago)

*The time mentioned for every stage is Local Time

[luieluv]

Detail Itineraries and Maps :

Stages & Itinerary
- http://www.rallyargentina.com/2011/en/itinerary

Maps
- http://www.rallyargentina.com/2011/en/maps

Entries :
- http://www.rallyargentina.com/2011/en/c ... rs/entries

[sleenster]

Yeaaaa thanks luie was too busy to make a new thread for this (and suffering from a bit of motorsport fatigue too )

[luieluv]

Yeaaaa thanks luie was too busy to make a new thread for this (and suffering from a bit of motorsport fatigue too )

lolz.. yeah.. hands full of motorsport this weekend.

[luieluv]

Loeb and Ogier star in Buenos Aires demo

Citroen heroes Sebastien Loeb and Sebastien Ogier took a break from their Rally Argentina preparations to thrill more than 50,000 fans at a special demonstration event in the capital Buenos Aires on Saturday.

Loeb and Ogier, who have won two WRC events apiece this season, performed various driving displays aboard a Citroen DS3 WRC in the city’s Place de la Republique.

“Citroen in Argentina are really pushing the WRC and the Citroen Road Show is one of the best examples of this,” said Citroen Racing team manager Sven Smeets. “The event was organised between Citroen, Total and Red Bull and it’s great for us to be involved.”

The Citroen Road Show was shown live on television in Argentina and a number of local press and radio attended.

Seven-time world champion Loeb and Ogier are both currently carrying out reconnaissance for Rally Argentina, round six of the World Rally Championship, which gets underway with a superspecial stage on the streets of host town Villa Carlos Paz on Thursday afternoon.

After five rounds, Loeb heads the WRC drivers’ standings while Citroen tops the makes’ table.

link:
- http://www.wrc.com/news/loeb-and-ogier- ... ?fid=14739

[sleenster]

Latvala suffers shakedown failure

By David Evans
Thursday, May 26th 2011, 14:14 GMT

Jari-Matti Latvala's bid to win Rally Argentina has suffered an early setback after his Ford Fiesta RS WRC suffered a transmission-related failure during shakedown for the world championship round.

Latvala had completed one run through the 3.87-mile Carlos Paz-Cabalango practice stage and had just left the startline for his second pass when the problem occurred.

"I went a few metres forward and lost the drive," said Latvala. "I thought it was driveshaft, I kept going slowly to the end of the shakedown road, then came on the road section. I was a bit worried [about] what is wrong with the car so I stopped there. It's on the transmission side but I don't know exactly what is the problem."

Latvala's car is being returned to the service park in Villa Carlos Paz where Ford engineers will examine the exact cause of the problem and carry out repairs.

Petter Solberg was also delayed during shakedown following a front-right driveshaft failure on his privateer Citroen DS3 WRC. Benoit Nogier, boss of Citroen Racing Technologies said: "We have to check the data because he did not hit anything."

Shakedown finishes at 12:00 local time.

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/91727

[Arli Racegirl]

Latvala suffers shakedown failure

By David Evans
Thursday, May 26th 2011, 14:14 GMT

Jari-Matti Latvala's bid to win Rally Argentina has suffered an early setback after his Ford Fiesta RS WRC suffered a transmission-related failure during shakedown for the world championship round.

Latvala had completed one run through the 3.87-mile Carlos Paz-Cabalango practice stage and had just left the startline for his second pass when the problem occurred.

"I went a few metres forward and lost the drive," said Latvala. "I thought it was driveshaft, I kept going slowly to the end of the shakedown road, then came on the road section. I was a bit worried [about] what is wrong with the car so I stopped there. It's on the transmission side but I don't know exactly what is the problem."

Latvala's car is being returned to the service park in Villa Carlos Paz where Ford engineers will examine the exact cause of the problem and carry out repairs.

Petter Solberg was also delayed during shakedown following a front-right driveshaft failure on his privateer Citroen DS3 WRC. Benoit Nogier, boss of Citroen Racing Technologies said: "We have to check the data because he did not hit anything."

Shakedown finishes at 12:00 local time.

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/91727

Perkele!

[ford_wrc]

Thanks for all the links.

After a strong start in Sweden, Ford has been getting it's butt kicked by Citroen. Hopefully Latvala can get his transmission issue figured out and put some pressure on Ogier and Lobe. Does anyone know where I can find a list of all the shakedown times? I wanna see how Block did.

[Sébastien Loeb]

Thanks for all the links.

After a strong start in Sweden, Ford has been getting it's butt kicked by Citroen. Hopefully Latvala can get his transmission issue figured out and put some pressure on Ogier and Lobe. Does anyone know where I can find a list of all the shakedown times? I wanna see how Block did.

Take this

http://www.wrc.com/news/ogier-tops-arge ... ?fid=14750

[ford_wrc]

Thanks for all the links.

After a strong start in Sweden, Ford has been getting it's butt kicked by Citroen. Hopefully Latvala can get his transmission issue figured out and put some pressure on Ogier and Lobe. Does anyone know where I can find a list of all the shakedown times? I wanna see how Block did.

Take this

http://www.wrc.com/news/ogier-tops-arge ... ?fid=14750

Thanks, I didn't read that article to the very end. Looks like the results are:

1. Ogier
2. Loeb
3. Solberg
4. Ostberg
5. Hirvonen
6. Villagra
7. Wilson
8. Merksteijn
9. Latvala
10. Block
11. Oliveira

[sleenster]

New gearbox for Latvala in Argentina

Jari-Matti Latvala will start Rally Argentina with a new gearbox fitted to his Ford Fiesta RS WRC after the original unit failed during shakedown for round six of the world championship.

Under the WRC’s event-linking regulations, introduced to help control costs, Latvala had two gearboxes at his disposal for Argentina: one previously unused, albeit sealed unit and one that had completed the Jordan Rally back in April and was earmarked as a spare for the Finn in South America.

Championship rules permit teams to employ one ‘joker’ during the course of the season, which effectively enables them to break the event chain in circumstances where a component has failed.

Following the breakage in shakedown, Ford engineers elected to install a new gearbox to prevent Latvala from having to complete the 378.15 competitive kilometres in Argentina with a used gearbox and with no spare in the event of a problem during the rally. Employing a ‘joker’ does not incur a time penalty.

Ford team boss Malcolm Wilson explained: “Jari’s gearbox broke this morning. You’re allowed one joker in the year. Because of the fact the spare gearbox had already done Jordan we obviously decided after a few discussions with [technical director] Christian Loriaux to fit a brand new ‘box in Jari’s car. You always fear you might want to use it later on in the year and we lost that opportunity for something else later in the season. We’ll have to make sure nothing else happens.”

Wilson said it was too early to determine the cause of the failure, adding: “We don’t really know the whole consequences until we get it analysed [back in the UK]. We’ve sent photos back to the guys to try and get some ideas of what’s gone wrong.”

As a result of the gearbox failure, Latvala only managed one full speed run in shakedown. However, Wilson is convinced that this won’t affect the Finn’s chances when the rally gets underway with the Super Special Carlos Paz later today.

“It won’t affect him,” said Wilson. “He missed out on one shakedown run. He’s come straight from his Greece test and I have no worries about anything impacting on going into this event.”

http://www.wrc.com/news/new-gearbox-for ... ?fid=14752

[Sébastien Loeb]

The Boss wins the first stage in this rally

and Mikko had a penalty 10 second

The reason

1 Min late

[sleenster]

Wooohooo two stage wins for Jari-Mari so far

[ford_wrc]

Where is the pics and vids thread for this rally?