[WRC] News & rumours (part IV) 2016

[macebig]

Honda spend tons of money to develop the car that became BGP001.Subaru and Suzuki invested significantly on the Impreza 08 and SX4 WRC only to pull the plug.Last but not least,Toyota created a Yaris WRC and a TF110 in TMG only to store those two cars under a blanket in Cologne...

[Rally Power]

Formula E is a spec series.

Not an FE follower, but I think manus can now make their own powertrains.

Each one is entitled to believe, or not, on this kind of rumors. Having in mind journos current need for scoops and scandals, I tend to get more skeptical every day.

[stefanvv]

Honda spend tons of money to develop the car that became BGP001.Subaru and Suzuki invested significantly on the Impreza 08 and SX4 WRC only to pull the plug.Last but not least,Toyota created a Yaris WRC and a TF110 in TMG only to store those two cars under a blanket in Cologne...

Ok, but the difference is VW are now active in WRC and are very successful.

[macebig]

All of those examples(except Toyota in WRC) were active with various degrees of success.

[Mirek]

Yes, Audi leaves WEC likely due to internal VAG war with Porsche which started after Porsche won Le Mans. Still we shall not downplay the impacts of the dieselgate. The overall loss for VW is going to be huge and will hurt a lot for many years to come. The VAG Group is also very special company as it is partially owned and driven by state Lower Saxony and the politics play an important role in its working. It doesn't matter that for us the WRC budget seems to be tiny compared to the overall numbers of the group or compared to the dieselgate loss. It may be closed, it may continue. We have to wait and see.

[giu canbera]

should we start to beg prodrive or eks (matthias ekstrom's team.. where Ogier tested last week or something) on twitter for them to run the Polos in 2017 like Msport and Ford are doing with its partnership? heheh

[dupanton]

What I find really strange is, if they want to stop, why didn't they do that at the end of this year? Why bother developing a whole new car to then pull the plug out 1 year later. Doesn't make much sense to me...

[Oliverk]

What I find really strange is, if they want to stop, why didn't they do that at the end of this year? Why bother developing a whole new car to then pull the plug out 1 year later. Doesn't make much sense to me...

Please try to understand that these kind of decisions are made in upper level. They don't give a rats ass about spent time and resources. If it's needed to the brand to cut motorsport then it will be cut.

[dupanton]

Please try to understand that these kind of decisions are made in upper level. They don't give a rats ass about spent time and resources. If it's needed to the brand to cut motorsport then it will be cut.

I agree, but it's not like Dieselgate is a thing of the last month.
We will see, I hope they stay in the WRC!

[Loose_Unit]

So this could be VW Team next year for real?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDL9sy0KLuM