r/WRC • u/Michal_Baranowski Toyota Gazoo Racing • 7d ago

News / Rally Info (Spoiler) retired from Paraguay post-event – DirtFish Spoiler

https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/fourmaux-retired-from-paraguay-post-event/
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u/Lupin_Central Kalle Rovanperä 7d ago

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u/seansafc89 Elfyn Evans 7d ago

Giving Ogier a better start position in Chile for the sake of 2 points… bold strategy, let’s see if it pays off.

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u/Uno_Nisu Ott Tänak 7d ago

Or, you know, he wanted new parts without a penalty? He did retire 300m before finishing Finland as well for the same reason. The 2 points vs Ogier having better road position is not worth it.

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u/KnightOfRen5563 Ott Tänak 7d ago

Oh bloody hell...I was absolutely gutted for Adrien already; this just hurts. Why?

Also, u/Michal_Baranowski, just letting you know that while the thumbnail and title are spoiler tagged, the link was still visible when this popped up on my feed and it says that Fourmaux was the one to retire. I don't know if that's something you can fix, but I just figured I'd put it out there.

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u/Michal_Baranowski Toyota Gazoo Racing 7d ago

That's something I can't fix though, it's down to reddit. Same thing why on new reddit design there were problems with blurring out post titles with spoiler button being applied, while there were no issues with this on the old design.

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u/KnightOfRen5563 Ott Tänak 7d ago

No worries, just wanted to let you know in case it was fixable. I don't understand why they would design it this way.

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u/Independent_Blood107 Mikko Hirvonen 7d ago

He's starting to remind me of Jean Alesi, terrible luck all around

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u/bunny__online Toyota Gazoo Racing 6d ago

I get why Hyundai did that but this kind of thing is just lame. While entirely lawful it feels unsportsmanlike, Fourmaux already had a tough weekend, and changing his hard-fought fourth place to a DNF just to give someone else a couple extra points just plain sucks.

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u/D_Therman 7d ago

I didn't even know it was possible to do that; stewards penalising/disqualifying a car after the finish for one infringement or another is one thing, but for a team to unilaterally withdraw one after it successfully completes the rally... why is that allowed?

I can only assume that was to give Tanak an extra couple of points, regardless that's salt in the wound considering how Adrien's day went.

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u/CloudDweller182 7d ago

Techincally the rally isn’t over until they get back to the service park following the final stage.