Tour de Corse 2014 (Giru di Corsica)

[vino_93]

Yep, Magalhães used to be faster. Lets be fair: he still got the speed but he's no longer a pro (Peugeot Sport Portugal team stopped a few years ago), and as a privateer budget restrictions makes him to get less courses and less testing. And you need lots of Kms at the wheel to keep a top level. We can also question if his Delta 208 is as fast as those of SaintéLoc (doubt it). Either way, maybe he could look at Abbring's example and make a step back into the 208 Cup. He's still in time to revitalize his career. Best luck to him!

Hasn't Magalhaes a support of Peugeot Portugal now ?

[vino_93]

I would like to see him on different type of stages than in France...

I think he will do WRC 3 next year. French federation will stop Rallye Jeunes detection program to focus on him and Yohan Rossel in the future, and help them to jump to WRC.

[Rally Power]

Hasn't Magalhaes a support of Peugeot Portugal now ?

Peugeot Portugal only sponsors (don't have the numbers but they shouldn't be high) Magalhães. Back in the 90's and 00's Peugeot Portugal had a full rally structure that was several times national champion and gave their drivers some foreign rally experiences. The greater of those was Miguel Campos 2nd place (with equal number of points of the champion, Bruno Thiry) in 2003 ERC, with a 206WRC rallied by the team. Managed by former (since the 205T16 days) PTS mechanic Carlos Barros, it was considered one of the top Peugeot Sport satellite teams. Due to low sales (portuguese auto market reduce hugely since 2009), 3 years ago the importer closed the team.

[lewalcindor]

You could watch Sarrazin's 2006 season with Subaru in the documentary, "Engineering the World Rally. His teammates that season were Petter Solberg and Chris Atkinson:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZSzPs6GC-o

[Jarek Z]

Huge congratulations to happy winner-Sarrazin. I never expected for a circuit driver to win rally in E.C.

Didn't circuit driver Kubica win Janner Rally 11 months ago?

[stefanvv]

He was veeeeery lucky there

[Andre Oliveira]

Sarrazin won Var 2001

[stefanvv]

Sarrazin doesn't count, he is not circuit driver. On the other hand Kubica is, and always will be

[WUff1]

He was veeeeery lucky there

Yes, but it was not his personal fault to get in danger there as you know too.

[stefanvv]

Yes, but it was not his personal fault to get in danger there as you know too.

Probably You mean the last stage? I meant in general, the whole Rally, he escaped several times on different stages.