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27th October 2017, 09:34 #751
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27th October 2017, 10:10 #752
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27th October 2017, 10:49 #753
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Colin and Becs are talking right now and I think I heard about Suninen, that he will not do the whole season in WRC car. 6 events... Somebody correct me
And about Kalle that he need first good season in WRC2 before stepping up.
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27th October 2017, 10:52 #754
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27th October 2017, 11:08 #755
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27th October 2017, 14:00 #757
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Total nonsense... M-Sport is not interested in any driver who is expecting to get paid and have not bunch of sponsors behind him..
And is the only team with available seats, so they will go with someone that can drive for free. Meeke is not one of them.
Citroen is not that stupid either that they will dropped him if he still have contract. They will still have to pay him for a year and he is not driving, so they need to get new driver and let's face it, if they complaining about costs they will sure not hire another driver if they have others signed already.
And they have Breen, Lefebvre, Qassimi and all three is still not capable of winning the events.
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27th October 2017, 14:31 #758
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Even Management have said in a quite recent interview that they categorically do not pay to put drivers in WRC cars. As the moment you start to pay for a seat, that is expected of you, and you are branded a pay-driver. A WRC car is so expensive to fund, that by doing so, they are setting themselves up for an impossible task. It doesn't matter what your name is, they will never pay for a seat.
They can choose to let the driver drive for free. That's the reason why Mikkelsen did not drive for DMACK in 2017. DMACK wanted money, Mikkelsen and Even Management don't spend money. However, Mikkelsen have been doing the Citroën events, and will be doing the Hyundai events for free.
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27th October 2017, 14:42 #759
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27th October 2017, 15:13 #760
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No idea. The only thing that was said, is that this year he have been driving for free in the WRC cars. Which can mean he still get VW money, or it can mean that by driving for other companies he willingly let go of the rest of the VW money (as it was not said that he drove for free for Skoda).
I think it's more politics. These are not brands that are by their philosophy to be engaged in factory operations in WRC. So engaging with customer operations - no doubt with heavily subsidised...
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