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EVEN PROS DON'T ALWAYS GET IT RIGHT.(Brief Article)

AutoWeek,  February, 2006  by Peacock, Anthony

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Byline: Anthony Peacock For WRC driver Marcus Gronholm, winter driving's scariest moment came in the 2003 Monte Carlo Rally: "It was January-a crazy event where you often find yourself on wrong tires for the conditions. Heading into the Col de Bleine, high up on the twisty asphalt roads of the French Alps, I had chosen hard-compound slicks.

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For the stages before-on dry asphalt-I had made a tire choice I thought was too soft: The rubber was heating up, so the tires and therefore our Peugeot 206 WRC was moving around. "That is why I reckoned a harder slick was the way ...

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