[WRC] News & rumours (part IV) 2016

[Munkvy]

Today Sebastien Loeb testing in France C4Wrc + DS3Wrc for French Rally driver Pereira
Full story with video + photos ➡ http://goo.gl/Mur585

Imagine having the opportunity to get tuition from Loeb... Lucky fellow!

[KiwiWRCfan]

cereer oportunities at vw motorsport

http://www.volkswagen-motorsport.com...php?id=132&L=1

position of Motorsport Director is not listed, perhaps they have identified their preferred candidate to replace Jost

[Rally Power]

Imagine having the opportunity to get tuition from Loeb... Lucky fellow!

Armando Pereira is a true self made man. He leave Portugal at the age of 14 and was able to become one of the wealthy french telecom entrepreneurs. Ironically he was only noticed in Portugal last year, after getting involved in PT Telecom buy out by Altice.

For sure he's not the most talented rally driver around, but he runs for pleasure as any other amateur guy. During the years he achieved some interesting results on French regional events, always at the wheel of state of the art rally cars.

https://youtu.be/vVxVjFSdEO8

[vino_93]

Armando Pereira is a true self made man. He leave Portugal at the age of 14 and was able to become one of the wealthy french telecom entrepreneurs. Ironically he was only noticed in Portugal last year, after getting involved in PT Telecom buy out by Altice.

For sure he's not the most talented rally driver around, but he runs for pleasure as any other amateur guy. During the years he achieved some interesting results on French regional events, always at the wheel of state of the art rally cars.

https://youtu.be/vVxVjFSdEO8

"some interesting results on French regional events" Well ... We can say he is clearly slow, even for that level. Ok sometimes he is on the podium, but when you look the classification, you can see he is regularly beaten by R3 cars (well drived, but R3 against WRC ...). Of course, there's worst drivers than him, but he is not especially good ...

BUT ... he is great guy. He financially help a lot of young gun, as Quentin Gilbert. When you see a french driver - or belgian, like Wagner - with "SFR" on the car, it's thanks to Pereira.
And it's always nice to see such nice car on small events, even if they are not amazingly drived.

[seb_sh]

position of Motorsport Director is not listed, perhaps they have identified their preferred candidate to replace Jost

They probably search for that position through other channels. I assume they have some kind of shortlist of people and are contacting them directly.

[Simmi]

They probably search for that position through other channels. I assume they have some kind of shortlist of people and are contacting them directly.

Yep that's not the kind of role you post in the job papers. I read rumours about Sainz which would be awesome. No idea if there's any basis to that. They could have Sainz and Moya as first and second in command - versus Tommi and Jarmo Lehtinen at Toyota.

[ArtooDetoo]

position of Motorsport Director is not listed, perhaps they have identified their preferred candidate to replace Jost

It would be fairly unorthodox for a position that far up the chain to be advertised, I should think. Although having said that, the new MD may indeed have been in duscussions already and just not announced yet. Isn't speculation fun? :-)

Dang - should've read on a bit further. Beaten to it, multiple times.

D'oh...

[Mariusz]

An interview with Martin Prokop after his first race, Mugello 12h, where he was driving really well. He talks about his possible change of motor sport and also about Robert Kubica.

[AL14]

An interview with Martin Prokop after his first race, Mugello 12h, where he was driving really well. He talks about his possible change of motor sport and also about Robert Kubica.

sounds pretty excited about racing. Do you know what position they got in that race?

[Barreis]

sounds pretty excited about racing. Do you know what position they got in that race?

44th...
http://classic.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/123355