[WRC] News & rumours (part IV) 2016

[Fast Eddie WRC]

New Citroen C3 official launch today.. we'll see exactly what the 2017 WRC car is based on.

[Eli]

http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/ne...cactus-styling and here it is

[A FONDO]

typical french perversion

[itix]

Whoever designed those front lights should be shot in the early morning mist...

And why oh why the silly door cushions?

Bring back the designer of the DS cars...

[janvanvurpa]

New Citroen C3 official launch today.. we'll see exactly what the 2017 WRC car is based on.

Sweet bleedin Jayzuz.....I think I am going to go spew..
It looks like a childs toy

America's infantilization of the world is spreading..Oh dear.

[USER47]

Looks like smaller cactus. Meh.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Citroën 2017 team will have just 2 drivers full time. Citroën is expected to stay in WRC for at least 3 more years...
via @ericdobro Twitter

[EstWRC]

so, no such a rule that teams will be with 3 cars then?

[Teme]

so, no such a rule that teams will be with 3 cars then?

Don't know about the rule, have it really been mentioned anywhere? It would be great of course. This season last four rallies the 25 manu points for victory has gone to the number 2 teams of VW and Hyundai which is ridiculous.

And if the rumour says 2 drivers full time, that doesn't mean there can't be 3 cars full time. And anyway if I remember correctly, for example Subaru used most of the time only two cars in 2002-2003.

[dimviii]

More than one will have caught off guard Yves Matton statements in an interview with the French half AUTOhebdo, which ensures that Citroen will have only two official units next season. The first is for Kris Meeke, who is under contract until 2018, while the second is being shuffled between different names, including the two young pilots of the signing of the two chevrons that competed last weekend in Poland Stéphane Lefebvre and Craig Breen.

The Belgian has made it clear that there will be rotations in the second seat for the 2017 season and therefore the pilot elected accompany Kris Meeke driving the second Citroen C3 WRC during the calendar full. A list that has long been rumored that could also be Thierry Neuville and Dani Sordo.

I am looking for a second driver for 2017. I have no obligation to impose or Stéphane Craig, the only instruction is to do the best possible given their current level and experience. They have to show what they are capable. It will be a unique second pilot, who I will choose between candidates who can potentially come into my plans. Today I have not decided, however, some of them have already been discarded. In July plans for the next three years will be defined, then I begin to negotiate with the drivers that give the profile.

And the truth is that at no time Citroen said it was to have three cars, which themselves have brands like Toyota or Hyundai (Volkswagen also expected to hold). Matton remarks that the only option for Citroën had a third unit would be for the training of young pilots, something that is not necessary today because the WRC lacks them.

We maintain commitment of two cars. I am against an agreement requiring the use of three cars and invest more money in pilots. The only interest of a third car would be the training of young people. But one of the biggest drawbacks of the WRC is to have more seats than high-level drivers. First you have to solve this problem. On development, we will soon have a second model to advance the evolution in asphalt. There is no assessment point between the new and current WRC, but the car rolled into the same sections to compare specific points such as easy to drive. Bengué is unavailable due to injury, but is expected back in the car at the end of the month. We have remade the simulator and we are ready to extend our contract with the FIA ​​another year in the JWRC.

http://www.diariomotor.com/competici...emporada-2017/