Should Solberg be in a factory seat for 2013?

[pettersolberg29]

@Dimvii, it's from a magazine with a good reputation, they don't publish rubbish news.

I'll translate his quote:
“Jusqu’au milieu de la saison, je me battais devant. Je suis déçu de ma deuxième moitié de saison. Et les résultats des trois dernières épreuves, en partie à cause de mon copilote et un peu de ma faute, ont complètement gâché les statistiques…”

"Until the middle of the season, I was battling in front. I'm disappointed about my second half of the season. And the results of the last three events, partly caused by my codriver and a bit my fault, have completely ruined the statistics..."

Not really nice from him... It's not the codriver who creates a puncture by deciding to throw the car completley sideways 15m before a fast corner while it's not neccesary... Also the notes are made up by the driver, Chris Patterson has to read them. Was there any case where Petter crashed this year because a note was being read wrong or too late?

Not nice but in France it was a co-driver error, and there was another rally where Chris said 'cut' instead of 'don't cut' which led to a puncture. Still think it's a bit wrong to blame the co-driver but there is at least a small amount supporting the moan!

[Mintexmemory]

Well, that looks like Chris will be looking for a new seat next year! How to dismantle a reputation in 4 easy stages (SS1 Spain, SS1 Sardinia, SS1 France, SS1 Germany..... and yes I know that these were not necessarily the stages he had problems on but it is meant to be humour!)

[A.F.F.]

Well then we can hope that Latvala and Hirvonen will soon leave WRC 'cos they'te in works teams for years and didn't succeed.

Counts for your time in the forum as well

[noel157]

Counts for your time in the forum as well

True...LOL .....

[Padowa]

Nothing! Read my earlier post I strongly believe he should leave M-Sport and be a privateer again
With a DS3 as he was and he was having better results that way in a non works car

Do you know he is not allowed to beat factory DS3 in a customer DS3. So his best chance is being in a Ford.

[Prisoner Monkeys]

Honestly, I have no idea why Solberg got a factory seat to begin with this year. He hasn't exactly set the world on fire for a while now.

[pettersolberg29]

Honestly, I have no idea why Solberg got a factory seat to begin with this year. He hasn't exactly set the world on fire for a while now.

Maybe because for 2 seasons he was the most successful privateer, and got podiums through pace alone when other drivers were nowhere near. Who else would/could Ford have hired last season?

[grugsticles]

He should have a seat for the simple reason that there are minimal other options out there.
Although he is defiantly past his prime the guy is still fast enough, which is probably due to the way the WRC has been operating win the last 10+ years in regard to young drivers.

[noel157]

Honestly, I have no idea why Solberg got a factory seat to begin with this year. He hasn't exactly set the world on fire for a while now.

There was a good reason he got the seat, well, actually 1 million good reasons...........

[Plan9]

@Noel157: I hope he has another 1 million reasons in his pocket now. Is there even a slim change he could get something with Prodrive?