Hello from Antony Warmbold

[bennizw]

Of course WRR won´t grill Malcolm Wilson. Some of the radio crew also produce Fords video blog from each event. Independent journalism? I´m sceptical.

[Gard]

what really amazes me, is that many of the forum members. Hasn't realized how manu teams handle privateers. With all the treads we have had in the past on these subjects, you still are surprized when mr. Warmbold blogs about this. Remember Henning did a resett of setting everytime the car had been into service. He didn't trust the team at all. Any of you find it strange, that Henning and Manfred performed so well i the pug. for later to be really outpaced with Xsara and Focus. even the differences between the xsaras when droven by Stohl, Carlsson and the others. One year really on pace, next year, not even close. Remember how suddenly Petters Xsara started to perform, when Quesnel found out he could be usefull for the manu team.

[gravelman]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlAKLwQVV30

Found this video of Antony's 2005 season

[Brother John]

By coincidence, Warmbold was on Dutch television last week in which the clash with Duval in New Zeeland was compared with the one of Panizzi in the Safari rally and Hirvonen and Loeb in Portugal. I realized last week I didn't hear or see anything from him in years. Most of the time WRC drivers don't disappear from tv and you hear about them in local rally's or so. Funny that one week later you pop up with the blog.

Because someone finally say the truth about the WRC and factory teams, is there something wrong if you're self are deceived?

[BDunnell]

what really amazes me, is that many of the forum members. Hasn't realized how manu teams handle privateers. With all the treads we have had in the past on these subjects, you still are surprized when mr. Warmbold blogs about this. Remember Henning did a resett of setting everytime the car had been into service. He didn't trust the team at all. Any of you find it strange, that Henning and Manfred performed so well i the pug. for later to be really outpaced with Xsara and Focus. even the differences between the xsaras when droven by Stohl, Carlsson and the others. One year really on pace, next year, not even close. Remember how suddenly Petters Xsara started to perform, when Quesnel found out he could be usefull for the manu team.

I suppose some of us hark back to the days when privateers in Escorts, such as Pentti Airikkala, were able to match or lead the works cars. But your point is a very good one.

Excellent blog by Antony, by the way. Genuinely insightful.

[N.O.T]

I suppose some of us hark back to the days when privateers in Escorts, such as Pentti Airikkala, were able to match or lead the works cars. But your point is a very good one.

Excellent blog by Antony, by the way. Genuinely insightful.

you don't need to go that far back...many privateers managed to match the times of the works drivers in recent years as well (axcluding this year where cars are almost equal)

[alleskids]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XWu9FMczAM
@ Anthony. I hope you can give us some inside about this "incident". New Zealand 2004, <The Phone> How did things go from the finish moment on, how did the Ford team react? And more important, what caused youre car to suddenly stop and start simply after restart? Did Ford Focus WRCars run on Microsoft Windows: press CTRL ALT DEL and all youre troubles disappear ?

[jens]

Very interesting insight to the background of the WRC world - thanks. The part of an "unknown Finn" finding a bit more money and getting a better car sounded quite funny. As we know, the rest is history... Also interesting to find out that privateer cars were made of completely different materials. In F1 terms it would be like A-team's car is made of carbon fibre and B-team's car of aluminium. Would sound extraordinary. : I remember myself wondering back in 2005, how Anthony was suddenly so much more competitive than before. Well, getting some answers now!

[Antony Warmbold]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XWu9FMczAM
@ Anthony. I hope you can give us some inside about this "incident". New Zealand 2004, <The Phone> How did things go from the finish moment on, how did the Ford team react? And more important, what caused youre car to suddenly stop and start simply after restart? Did Ford Focus WRCars run on Microsoft Windows: press CTRL ALT DEL and all youre troubles disappear ?

Noted, I will get into this in a future RSI post.

Chapter 6 is up

[Antony Warmbold]

Sorry that should be Chapter 5.....ooops!