Monte Carlo results
Quick update.
3 cars entered. 4 cars in the class, the other was a Porche 997 RS 4.0 RGT - evperienced car and crew.
Results:
Day One - Delecours retired - differential failure. Delecours is an experienced top driver. The car has to cope with 2 wheel drive and 300BHP on snow and ice with studded tyres and bits a bare tarmac - possibly the biggest test to date for the diff. He didn't participate in the shake-down stage before the formal event - did they know something?
Fabio as we have seen was doing well until the tree - conditions, new car etc.
Noberasco - always the slowest of the 3 124's but he got to the finish - 2nd in class behind the Porche ( 3.24 mins) and 45th out of 54 finishers.
What can we take from this?
The 124 finished it's first WRC event.
It was fastest in class until it broke - diff or bodywork.
It was in the top 20 on day one.
Diff failure - could it be due to the extreme conditions of the Monte or is 300bhp too much? We may learn more prior to the next event.
Overall a very good first event in this extreme class of racing.
Danny