[WRC] News & Rumours (part V) 2017

[Sulland]

Toyota have to change rear suspension arm and engine spring valves till Sweden: https://www.rallye-magazin.de/wm/art...ota-yaris-wrc/

English:

https://translate.google.no/translate?sl=de&tl=en&u=https%3A//www.rallye-magazin.de/wm/artikel/d/2017/01/25/fia-verlangt-aenderungen-am-toyota-yaris-wrc/

[Mintexmemory]

Toyota have to change rear suspension arm and engine spring valves till Sweden: https://www.rallye-magazin.de/wm/art...ota-yaris-wrc/

Actually the tranlation says:
'Before rally Sweden, Toyota has to improve the upper mounting points of the rear shock absorbers. The distance between the underbody and the spring strut is too long.
As "Motorsport aktuell" learned, the valves of the turbo four-cylinder have to be changed. An unauthorized material was used.
However, because the rebuild of the engine cannot be finished by Rally Sweden, the team has until Mexico to comply with this point...

[Mintexmemory]

English:

https://translate.google.no/translate?sl=de&tl=en&u=https%3A//www.rallye-magazin.de/wm/artikel/d/2017/01/25/fia-verlangt-aenderungen-am-toyota-yaris-wrc/

Actually that's Googlish - Looks like English but with the strangled germanic sentence construction retained and literal rather than 'sense' translations for certain words.

[Oppositelock]

nice try david but you are worthless.

Didn't know that my English is that good. I start to question your god-like abilities

[tomhlord]

David Evans blurbinbg his bollocks again...

Drawing conclusions from 1 very specialized rally and from spectating one corner *sigh*.

Not sure you read the whole article? It talks about more than just one corner...

[tomhlord]

Just think at this summer and silly season with vw withdrawal and so on, we were not informed, everything was in the mistery, it doesn't happen in other sports because there are real journalists that do their job properly and not by copying/pasting press realeases or giving non authoritative opinions.

Or how about, no.

Autocar journalists broke the story of leaving before it was official, disproving your point.

[AL14]

Or how about, no.

Autocar journalists broke the story of leaving before it was official, disproving your point.

My point was against Evans, not all the journalists. But anyway it is true that a large part of rally news comes after official statements and similar.

[tomhlord]

My point was against Evans, not all the journalists.

Other journalists? In Rallying? Paid, not fans? With contacts? Steady on.

[AL14]

what?

[RS]

http://www.wrc.com/en/wrc/news/janua...1--12-12-.html


VOLKSWAGEN REFUGEE ANDREAS MIKKELSEN IS TARGETING A RETURN TO THE WORLD RALLY CAR CATEGORY LATER THIS YEAR ABOARD A 2017-SPEC POLO R.

Some quotes.
"I want the Polo, it's the only car I know how to drive - I have done so much testing with it, it's really a pretty special one."

"I have to look for sponsors to do it, we try to do Portugal then Poland - I want to target three events and get back to a factory team for next season. Everybody is working hard, Volkswagen is doing everything it can."

"I will do the recces for all rallies this year and then let's see what budget we can get together to do as many rallies as possible to stay sharp for 2018," h

He also told Autosport magazine that if the Polo thing doesn't work out there is a chance he will do more in the Skoda.

So maybe the second Fabia is reserved for another Even Management driver, we just don't know which one yet.