Silly Season 2020

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Thierry Neuville says he would welcome Ott Tanak as a team-mate at Hyundai in the 2020 #WRC season.
https://t.co/5cV4tT1iEr

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Breen yesterday:
Proud to be part of this amazing team !
https://t.co/P6OezRqOmC

[STI69]

just thinking loudly....
because also for me is hard to believe thats is about money,maybe Tanak asked to run the yaris r5 program for customers with MM sport and Tommi denied?
Maybe Adamo willing to give MM sport this r5 multi million programm to MM sport?

I think you have nailed it. Exactly my thoughts after Evans leaked this. Katsuta R5 business is ending and Markko and Ott need something new for the MMM business (Ott became the partner in mid April this year). Also I have heard that we know only fraction of the problems what the Yaris have had during the races. Very often they have had to try to fix the car on road sections and same problems appear again and again.

[dimviii]

i read at French forum that Red Bull always follow/sponsor the each world champion.
This means that Red Bull will be with Tanak and Hyundai next year?

[er88]

i read at French forum that Red Bull always follow/sponsor the each world champion.
This means that Red Bull will be with Tanak and Hyundai next year?

Red Bull might sponsor/support Tanak personally but they won't leave Ogier/ Citroen imo

[eib1]

when was that when Adamo said that contract talks with Tanak are ended and later Tanak confirmed that they might not be even friends anymore?
Might it be that since then they have fooled us?
contract talks ended = contract signed
not friends = employer/employee relationship

[doubled1978]

i read at French forum that Red Bull always follow/sponsor the each world champion.
This means that Red Bull will be with Tanak and Hyundai next year?

That may technically be true, but until this year there has only been two guys who have been WC in the last 15 years...who were both French.

[Rally Power]

i read at French forum that Red Bull always follow/sponsor the each world champion.
This means that Red Bull will be with Tanak and Hyundai next year?

French forum posts should be taken with several pinches of salt; they’re also saying that Hyundai offered 10M to Tanak, that he was feeling discriminated for being an Estonian on a Finn team and that he secretly tested the i20 after Turkey…only this last one makes some sense.

[eib1]

Tanak's sponsor Oleg Gross confirmed today that he knows (already some time ago) where Ott is driving next year.
So the contract is signed and was signed some time ago.

[ggg377]

Tanak's sponsor Oleg Gross confirmed today that he knows (already some time ago) where Ott is driving next year.
So the contract is signed and was signed some time ago.

And since Mäkinen clearly hasn't signed a contract it's going to be Hyundai.