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Sorry I spent what I could afford sponsoring Chris Ingram, helping him to continue (and become champion) in ERC.



I say again, the situation is different now with so few seats and so many keen...

Citroen says its C3 World Rally Car is available to be bought or hired for next season, after the manufacturer withdrew its works' team following the departure of Sebastien Ogier for 2020.
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Mads Ostberg
It's a sad day for @CitroenRacing, WRC and for us. It will be difficult to find a seat with one less team at the end of the year, but I won't give up! I'm not done with WRC and I hope...

Ok fine, thats it then let's just give up... leave the C3 WRCs going to waste and a bunch of driver's sitting at home. Great idea.

The big difference now is the number of established WRC driver's without a seat.

If some of them can get together and get the money from sponsors for just a year in the C3's, they can stay in the...

As Citroen have quit WRC then what use are the WRCar's to them... sit them in a museum ?

If no-one can afford to buy/rent the C3's they would gain more by letting a private team have them and get...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EKXpmv4WsAA_HGo?format=jpg&name=900x900

Or just as possible, a return to M-Sport. You cant rule out anything being possible this crazy silly season.

Its likely we will never know the truth unless Makinen and Ogier give their sides of the story.

All we know is where we are and that Citroen are gone. And that its bad for WRC strength, bad for...

Sorry no, listening to Budar's interview (a pretty honest guy I think) it seems pretty clear they were to going 'finish the job' in 2020.

Lappi also said how surprised he was and how many...

OK Tanak was out of contract, but in effect he left Toyota who wanted to keep him after winning two titles.

Tanak joining Hyundai (with Neuville) was a big surprise and has done the WRC no...

People are blaming both Ogier and Citroen but neither would've left if Tanak hadn't gone to Hyundai.

Given their huge financial commitment to their WRC programme, Toyota HAD to sign Ogier in this...

The fact is that if Hyundai hadnt grabbed Tanak then there would be no free seat at Toyota and Ogier wouldnt have moved from Citroen.

That was the real catalyst to the inevitable exit of Citroen....

The vast majority of customer C3 R5's (like other R5's) are bought or hired for use in national or regional championships.

Relatively few are bought for use in WRC2 and even fewer of those are...

Hopefully they will pay Lappi's contract for the final year.

He should get a drive with M-Sport as that wont cost them much.

The ethos of the Citroen brand has switched to totally 'comfort-orientated' road cars and only DS has anything remotely sporty.

And unless they are winning in WRC and getting that publicity then...

Really sad to lose this stalwart manufacturer from WRC. They were there (with Ford) through many tough years.

I was a fan for some years from when Loeb drove a Saxo (like me) and I loved the Xsara...

And Lappi actually ran the old front suspension in Finland and did rather well.

Using the engine upgrade for Germany should be a no-brainer though - everyone likes more power !

Lappi confirms my thought:

https://www.wrc.com/en/wrc/news/june-2019/lappi-pressure/page/6411--12-12-.html

The issue is really that with Citroen only running two cars they really need both of their driver's to produce the goods.

Ogier needed help from Evans and Suninen to last year at M-Sport, even if...

Another mistake by Lappi, rolling the C3 in Portugal. He must be under big pressure now.

I wonder if Citroen are considering a replacement yet or 3rd car to support Ogier ?

Craig Breen testing a C3 R5 in Sardinia ?!

https://twitter.com/SmnSpn1/status/1129718261455695872

Esapekka Lappi has the full backing of Citroen Racing boss Pierre Budar ahead of Rally Chile: https://t.co/7J0Q3LeDy6

Lappi's car after Argentina

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D5PlGChXkAIvcbF.jpg

And 4 rallies gone and Citroen still 2nd in the Championship.