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A nice piece on Mahonen’s foolish plan, by Motorsport Monday rally editor: http://mmuk.realviewdigital.com/?iid=157021#folio=32

Nope, Barbosa still is ACP president. You’ve to remember that FIA sporting commissions aren’t permanent bodies, even if each competition guidelines are proposed by them (subjected to WMSC approval)....

edit...Mahonen's sprint stages rally format.

Carlos Barbosa is Portuguese auto club (ACP) president. ACP is Rally de Portugal organizer and it was under Barbosa leadership that RdP returned to WRC. He was implicated in ’17 WRC cars rules as WRC...

https://www.fia.com/news/fia-annual-general-assembly

Mahonen was appointed vice president of WRC rally commission; Carlos Barbosa remains president. Still no news on Mahonen’s successor as FIA...

It’d be interesting to know if they’ve actually run out the allowed annual test days. Someone mention it before and it makes more sense than this ‘saving money’ version.

According to Revista Scracth, future R2 regulations may include the use of a BoP system, to level down car performances. The engine layout (atmo or small turbo) isn’t yet decided, but it seems FIA...

First part Neuville talks about the title chances and his commitment to get it, plus some considerations on the season, the i20 and the team. Second is a series of unpleasant comments on Ogier (the...

Besides Rovanpera, there’s another teen trying to get into WRC2 next year. Marco Bulacia, the 16yo Bolivian champ, was at Skoda and is planning to visit other teams during the next monthes....

Relax. VW was fu..ed big time just in the US and PSA don't sell cars there. No european government will undermine a european manufacturer. Besides, there’s a general perception that all manus were...

It’s quite simple; WRC radio journos are Brits working for an international media, with a worldwide audience. They tend to forget it and most of the time they act having just British public in mind.

Yep, and honestly it's great to see people facing brit rally journos that tend to forget they work for the WRC official media, not to a local radio or tabloid. Still, Sordo's last sentence wasn't...

It’s not that harsh. Tila is the Tilia tree. He’s just being ironic and recommending Clark to chill out…

Venga = Come on; tomate una tila = have a lime blossom tea; listillo = smart ass.

Ok, for sure it’s better to have MSport linked with Ford in a limited tech and logistic deal than not having MSport at all, but any rally fan must feel sad to see Ford throwing buckets of money on...

You’re making some confusion. Dieselgate was a new chapter in the private war between Porsche and Piech families to control VW Group (that exists since the 60’s, with VW privatization), but it didn’t...

Totally agree on Porsche having a special status inside VW group, but that’s hardly the case for Skoda. It's pretty reasonable to believe that Skoda is now sharing R5 knowledge just like Seat did...

That's almost a one year old article. Situation has gladly improved. If they managed to get back WRC alongside F1 (the last is almost certain), that's a huge achievement for Turkey. Still, it's a...

Wilson’s family trust owns 25% of DMack (it was reveled here on the forum last year), but beside their financial links probably MSport will only fully use them when they manage to match the...

Actually he was a bit kamikaze at Monte Carlo, but afterwards he was back to his '100% in control' driving. I doubt it'll be enough to resist Neuville.

Pericak was the guy that gave green light to Ford presence at the WRX, instead of returning to WRC. Ford Performance announcement on their WRX entry makes any proper rally fan sick, as they...

James Fairley, Ford Europe former president (he left on June 1st) returned to Deaborn as he was promoted to FoMoCo vice president. He knows what MSport has been doing at the WRC and how badly they...

I've seen the car testing and rallying and I wasn't able to see anything fundamentally wrong. What seems to be missing (strangely, for a former WRC champ team) is the ability to adapt the car to...

Isn't this talk about the alleged C3 suspensions problems becoming a bit ridiculous? How can a car that won at Mexico, lead at Corsica and usually ends events at the top 5 with a less experienced...

Currently a team has to be officially designated by the manufacturer in order to get manufacturer team status

Only a car manufacturer can promote the homologation of a WRC car; they supply the...

It’s not a question of what we want, it’s a question of what we have and currently we have a fantastic new range of WRC cars that are faster, more spectacular and safer than the previous ones....