Vodafone Rally de Portugal 2017 [May 18-21]

[AnttiL]

Citroen can have four cars for manufacturer points?

[rage82]

Citroen can have four cars for manufacturer points?

No, they can enter 4 cars, but only top 2 placed will score for many points.


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[Tarmop]

They can enter how many they want /can but they can nominate only 3 of them to score manufacturer points (and only the 2 best of them collect those) before each event. M-sport so far for example has nominated Evans, Tänak and Ogier a, Bertelli and Ostberg use the name ( because only manufacturer teams can register 2017 cars). Until Corsica Tänak and Ogier collected manu. points, but in Argentina Evans was second and Tänak third, so no 4th place manu. points from Ogier, Latvala collected those.

[RS]

Yep very happy with that list. Even after the hype/let-down of the Mikkelsen situation it is still extremely strong.

I guess the big WRC2 guy missing is Kopecky. Was hoping to see Veiby too but nevermind. I can't wait to fly out there!

Mikelssen's availability for Skoda seems to have put the spanner in the works for Kopecky and Veiby this year, but hey it's good for the sport to have Andreas still driving, even if in an R5, and nice for us Skoda fans to have one of the top guys in a Fabia.

Curious to see how he will do on gravel in that car.

[AnttiL]

They can enter how many they want /can but they can nominate only 3 of them to score manufacturer points (and only the 2 best of them collect those) before each event.

I know. I was just trying to point out an error in the list, it had all the four Citroens nominated for manufacturer points. EWRC lists Al-Qassimi as not nominated and that's how I thought it should be anyway.

[Rally Power]

Fantastic list. Amazing WRC entry, great WRC2 field and even WRC3 looks interesting! National crews also helping to the show and only two small weeks left to start “o melhor Rali do Mundo”*! Viva o WRC, Viva Portugal!

*“The best Rally in the World”

[Rally Power]

It only confirms that Kopecký is not doing WRC2 (Portugal is mandatory). Third year in a row they send him only for three or four events per season which in my eyes is quite pathetic.

Kopecky did 6 WRC 2 events (the same number than Tideman) with Skoda last year and ended in 4th. He’s far from being unbeatable on tarmac (lost to Lappi in Germany and Evans in Corsica) and with so many gravel events probably it won’t be easy for him to do better. https://www.ewrc-results.com/profile/67-Jan-Kopecky/

Obviously he’s a Czech driver and it must be a bit sad for Czech fans to see his seat being taken by Mikkelsen, but what’s a bit more surprising is to see Skoda being unable to bet on new, young and talented Czech drivers (for sure there should be a few that deserve it), giving them chances to become future champs, just like they’re doing with Veiby and have done with all the other Even drivers in the past. (Or maybe I’m wrong and they’re already doing it; if so who’s the driver?)

[Andre Oliveira]

Fantastic list. Amazing WRC entry, great WRC2 field and even WRC3 looks interesting! National crews also helping to the show and only two small weeks left to start “o melhor Rali do Mundo”*! Viva o WRC, Viva Portugal!

*“The best Rally in the World”

Pity Portuguese championship contenders only do 1.5 leg

[Myrvold]

Yep very happy with that list. Even after the hype/let-down of the Mikkelsen situation it is still extremely strong.

I guess the big WRC2 guy missing is Kopecky. Was hoping to see Veiby too but nevermind. I can't wait to fly out there!

Mikelssen's availability for Skoda seems to have put the spanner in the works for Kopecky and Veiby this year, but hey it's good for the sport to have Andreas still driving, even if in an R5, and nice for us Skoda fans to have one of the top guys in a Fabia.

Curious to see how he will do on gravel in that car.

Veiby is Skoda's European driver in APRC this year - just like the two previous EVEN Management drivers (Lappi, Tidemand) he will do a season in APRC.

[Simmi]

Veiby is Skoda's European driver in APRC this year - just like the two previous EVEN Management drivers (Lappi, Tidemand) he will do a season in APRC.

Both those guys dovetailed APRC with other programmes (ERC/WRC2). I think like RS said, his progress has been halted slightly by Mikkelsen. But there is a APRC round the next weekend after Portugal so maybe it's better to acclimatise before.