DirtFish’s Colin Clark and David Evans find a table in sunny Zagreb to discuss everything they’ve learned about Rally Croatia so far during recce and shakedown for the new World Rally Championship rally.
Despite remarks from Toyota saying otherwise, they predict first on the road will be the place to be through this weekend and that road-sweeping will be a tactic adding to a first day where the gaps could be large between the top 10 cars.
But that’s not the only factor that’s going to influence the result, with the service park’s inexperience of Pirelli’s made-for-asphalt hard compound tire on the agenda as well as stage one’s multiple surface changes, a weather forecast that is showing sun but has already provided heavy rain and even hail, and the World Rally Car debut of M-Sport protege Adrien Fourmaux.
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