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2024 WRC Sweden Rally: Adrien Fourmaux vs. Elfyn Evans Duel Highlights and Pilot Reactions
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
2024-02-17 18:21:44
16 FOURMAUX Adrien, CORIA Alexandre, Ford Puma Rally1, action during the Rally Sweden 2024, 2nd round of the 2024 WRC World Rally Car Championship, from February 15 to 18, 2024 at Umea, Sweden – Photo Nikos Katikis / DPPI
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HIGHLIGHTS
Launched into a magnificent duel once morest Elfyn Evans, former winner in Sweden, Adrien Fourmaux once once more put in a solid performance. Although he is still ahead of the Welshman, the Frenchman only loses a few tenths and maintains a good margin ahead of the Toyota driver.
Points for Saturday are obviously at stake and five kilometers from the finish of this stage, the M-Sport driver is ideally placed to finish second today. Two small points separate second from third place.
As in the previous special, Thierry Neuville set the best time, preparing well for a very important final day.
Since Takamoto Katsuta’s stop, Esapekka Lappi has been on a “quiet” pace and maintains more than a minute ahead of Adrien Fourmaux.
Fifth overall, Oliver Solberg is still well placed in WRC2, still almost a minute ahead of Sami Pajari. The latter remains closely followed by Georg Linnamäe, very interesting this weekend!
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PILOT REACTIONS
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13:55.3“The grip is high but there’s no tire to use that grip, so I was just being very gentle to try to get out of it.”K. Rovanperä
13:49.7“This one really wasn’t easy – it’s almost an entirely gravel stage. You have to take a lot of care of the tires. Then maybe 4km into the stage my brakes started to go soft. You go up to 200 km/h and you don’t know if it’s going to brake well or not, it’s not a great feeling. Fortunately, we had brakes at the end. But we need to fix this now.”G.Munster
14:14.3“The grip is a little better than this morning so we might push a little but the tires had a lot of pressure and temperature, and I had a lot of heat at high speed just because the car was going straight.”T. Neuville
13:46.8“Conditions are quite different from this morning – lots of dirt. But I actually enjoyed this special.”E.Evans
13:47.8“He (Fourmaux) drives well that’s for sure. It was a good stage for us, we had to be careful with the tires.”A.Fourmaux
13:48.1“There were a lot of dirt sections and I tried to save the tires for the last stage. Driving at night in the middle of walls of snow is really special and super fun.”E. Lapland
14:00.3“It’s almost over, there’s still one left. I tried to save tires all followingnoon while staying smart in terms of pace. We’ll see if we have a few nails left for the last one.”O.Solberg
14:42.1“There are no more tires. Maybe I was too careful, but there’s plenty of dirt in there. If anyone still has tires, well done!”S. Pajari
14:41.6“I was hoping to get a bit of a head start on this stage, but shortly following the start I realized it was mostly dirt the whole way, so I tried to be smart, but it was is really, really tricky.”R. Korhonen“It’s very brittle and hard on the tires. I think we killed our tires, it’s not very good!”L.Joona“I think we still have nails for the last one, so that’s pretty good.”
NEXT SPECIAL : SS15- Umea 1 (10.08 km) from 7:05 p.m. (Saturday February 17, 2024)
Classification SS14 / After SS14 (28.06 km)
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Actress Francisca Merino’s Shocking Revelation About Ex-Partner Luciano Cruz-Coke
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
2024-02-17 17:37:07
In a recent episode of the program As it is, Panelist Francisca Merino revealed a particular comment that her ex-partner, Luciano Cruz-Coke, made to her.
During the conversation with Raquel Argandoña and Marlen Olivari in the studio, the actress was talking to her colleagues regarding heartbreak and advice on not ruining relationships, according to what was stated meter.
It was in that context that Marlen revealed that she did not keep track of her ex-partners, while Pancha and Raquel confessed that they followed “the lives” of their exes.
“I always go on my exes’ Instagrams to see how destroyed they are. I swear to you (…) I say this ‘rooster thank goodness he ended up with me because he is destroyed, the lady is worse.'”
It was there that Raquel asked him if he “looked” at the politician, in reference to Cruz-Coke. “Poor thing, I feel sorry for him. “He has a third of the followers I have on Instagram,” Pancha launched without a filter.
“And he told me that he was more famous than me,” the actress revealed.
It is worth mentioning that during the episode, Merino mentioned that he had been the only actor with whom he had had a romantic relationship. “He left me for a two-door refrigerator with an ice maker (…) In the end he did me a great favor,” said Pancha Merino.
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Norwegian Airline’s Record Profit in 2023 and its Impact on Argentina’s Aviation Market
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
2024-02-17 16:33:56
The news is recent, but distant. He arrives from Norway. She met yesterday. The Norwegian airline from that country obtained an operating profit in 2023 of more than US$200 million.
According to European media reports, the operating margin was 9%, a record for the company.
“I am delighted to announce that Norwegian achieved record profits in 2023. Our loyal customer base continued to grow and we are grateful for the trust they place in us. Colleagues across the company have worked hard to ensure operational excellence, from the planning of our network and services to their daily execution,” said Geir Karlsen, CEO of the company.
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Also highlighted is the growth plan they have planned with more aircraft and new routes, which shows the strength of the airline in a market as competitive as the European one.
Why is this news interesting in Argentina? Because Norwegian He operated in the country a few years ago, but decided to leave, abruptly, when he understood the particularities of Argentina.
Its arrival occurred during 2017, in a context in favor of companies, in which the opening of the skies and the arrival of several airlines were promoted. low cost.
That was the line that the former president marked Mauricio Macriand carried out by the then Minister of Transportation; Guillermo Dietrich.
There was talk of the “airplane revolution”, the El Palomar airport was opened for these new companies, competition grew, ticket prices dropped and the number of passengers grew.
A battle was also opened with the aeronautical unions to break the monopoly of Argentinian airlinesclean up the company and remove privileges from state managers and union members.
It was on that stage that he landed Norwegian with three aircraft, the coverage of several domestic routes and the Buenos Aires-London connection. Everything seemed promising until the political winds changed.
With the possibility of the return of Kirchnerism to power, Norwegian managers decided on a quick exit. First discreetly and then publicly, he negotiated the sale of his operations to another low costwhich had recently begun flying in Argentina.
Before the end of 2019 and barely assumed Alberto Fernandezthe agreement between the two companies was known and Norwegian left the country.
Argentine businessman Ricardo Clarke played a key role in the arrival of the Norwegian airline to these lands. Living in that country for decades, he was the manager of its arrival in 2017 and maintains close ties with the company. He is co-author of a book regarding the 20 years of the company’s life in which he devotes several pages to the “Argentine homeland.”
MDZ consulted him to find out what were the reasons that led to the company’s departure, ranging from political, economic and cultural issues.
“Knowing perfectly the idiosyncrasies of Norwegians, especially businessmen, I don’t think it would have been possible for Norwegian work in a country with a dominant company and a monopoly like Argentinian airlines“, with powerful unions and corrupt and mafia leaders, in a country governed by left-wing populists,” said the businessman, in relation to the return of Kirchnerism.
“Norwegian has never invested in a country with these characteristics, they are not ‘trained’ to face these tremendous obstacles that, to this day, no one has been able to overcome,” he added.
“When in Norwegian They saw that populism was returning and they knew the obstacles they were going to put in their way, they made the decision to leave Argentina. There were no other reasons,” Clarke said.
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“It is true that the company, at that time, was having problems in Norway and around the world and they needed to make a general replacement. I was not an employee of Norwegian. I had contact with the company and with the company’s leadership for the management I did for its arrival in the country. What I express is a personal impression that is expressed in the book. Knowing the Norwegians, I am convinced that the company would not have continued in Argentina because it was already known that the government of Mauricio Macri, which had given full support, was difficult for it to continue, especially with the change of government. It was a political, cultural and economic combination, but the political factor was very important,” Clarke said.
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