That's so cruel, he was out for 3 wins in a row as well, surely a team as profesional as Prodrive would have cold temperature's covered...... but then again the 3 "Pug's" are out as well with a "cold" and they have put millions into the car as well..... cruel blow...

There's always the next round Mr Burns !!
K

 

Are they not allowed to garage the cars overnight?

 

All

Richard Burns is out of the Monte Carlo rally, after failing to start the second day of the World Championship opener around the French Alps.
The British challenger's Subaru would not start after a first day saw him in second place behind world champion Tommi Makkinen.

The Subaru team had no explanation for the car's problem which came in temparatures of minus 10 degrees celcius.

The start of day two was then delayed as the opening stage was cancelled due to spectator congestion, an increasingly familiar event in world rally events.
The only consolation for British fans is the promotion of Colin McRae from seventh to fourth place after Burns was joined on the sidelines by Peugeot's Gilles Panizzi amd Francis Delecour.

All three of the French teams' cars also failed to start.

"I am bitterly disappointed because I was supremely confident about the battle ahead today with Tommi," said Burns, who was just 12 seconds adrift of the Finn.


McRae is up three places without turning a wheel

Temperatures in the mountains did plummet overnight, but the car had faced far worse conditions during testing for the season's opening rally.
Burns was confident of completing the hat-trick following his wins in Australia and Britain last year which clinched the runners-up spot in the championship.

Makinen, bidding to start his campaign for a fifth successive drivers' crown with a win, was left with a massive lead of one minute 51 seconds over Spain's Carlos Sainz who moved from fourth to second for Ford.

Finland's Toni Gardmeister is now third in the Seat with McRae two-and-half-minutes back in fourth spot.

Along with Panizzi and Delecour, Peugeot lost Marcus Gronholm who was 10th overnight.

Ro.

PS : Looks like the cold start problem aint limited to Geezer then .....


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Current Leader board after SS8
1 Makkinan
2 sainz +2.00 ish
3 gardemeister
4 kankunan whats our boy doing? dropped 36 secs on ss8! and is now 3 mins down
5 mcrae
6 thiry

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Grrr!!!

After bad pirelli tires, now bad battery...
It's not with this kind of details that Makinen will loose his crown!!!

Sniff... hope that for sweden, pirelli's will be better than 1 year ago.
If there guys on the forum who are in sweden, please call pirelli to tell us wich kind of snow it is, so maybe this time they'll bring the good tires

Better to prevent than to fix...

 

I read somewhere that it was a fuel pump problem. The 2 switches are supposed to operated sequentially. In the excitement they were operated simultaneously. Result car would not start.