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16th February 2022, 19:20 #551
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I remembered it being knowledge without ever openly being spoken about in the media. Whereas Meeke to sign a multi year deal with Toyota in 2016 was more widely spoken about publicly, because Shitroën wanted it known mostly.
Citroen managed to persuade Meeke to stay by offering him wrc starts in 16, which they didn't initially want to do.
I bet Meeke regrets his decision - although you can't take away his wins that season. And I guess Suninen is also wondering how differently things could have been if he got in at Toyota too.
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16th February 2022, 19:21 #552
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Suninen was also offered a seat at Skoda's WRC2 team for 2017, but with the condition that he lets Tidemand win the title.
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16th February 2022, 19:35 #553
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16th February 2022, 19:43 #554
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2022 WRC News & Rumours
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16th February 2022, 20:40 #555
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With regards to 2017 Toyota lineup.
Joukhi was Latvalas and Suninens manager (and previously Makinens). While Lappi was managed by Veiby.
So it seems pretty clear that Joukhi "sacrificed" Suninen for Latvala. Hardly a surprising choice on his part.
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16th February 2022, 21:13 #556
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Don't know about that. If Jouhki was about to sacrifice his own clients he probably would not have been in the biz as long as he has. Maybe he was looking at the "big picture" and with no competitive miles driven with 2017-spec cars, putting Latvala in a Yaris with the prospect of Suninen doing few events in a Fiesta wasn't such bad deal to start with. One thing we have to remember about Jouhki is that even though he has obvious and self-admitted financial targets in rally managering, his family business is worth a lot more than what the rally part could ever produce. I.e. there's no need to try and squeeze the last euro out of every contract each and every year.
ku ois neljä pyörää ku vetäis ni ois vähän eri sekunnit kyllä pätkillä, sen mä takaan
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16th February 2022, 21:29 #557
This was the part that interested me. Teemu mentioned that maybe he talked out too much secrets. Maybe someone heard something interesting?
And about the Betsafe interview then I also think it was very good. And also that Teemu can't talk BS. If the interviewer knew something about the background (for example the breakfast situation in M-Sport) and could describe it something along the lines then Teemu just confirmed it.
And just out of interest, how is Kalev Kruus's Finnish? Sometimes it felt that he is trying to remember some expressions etc but in general it felt smooth.
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16th February 2022, 21:53 #558
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I didn't catch any secrets as such on the Monte coverage. He was more telling about things like what kind of approach mixed tires require and stuff like that.
Smooth is an understatement. Yeah, maybe he was trying to remember some specific catchphrases at times, but it definitely didn't make any difference.ku ois neljä pyörää ku vetäis ni ois vähän eri sekunnit kyllä pätkillä, sen mä takaan
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16th February 2022, 22:24 #559
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The sacrifice was what happened if i don't remember wrong, 2 hours long so couldn't find it now
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4Lvk4bQRj0r6Uyggd9JWMj"Die with memories, not with dreams" Scott McIsaac
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16th February 2022, 22:25 #560
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So the plan for 2017 was Lappi and Hänninen full season and Suninen a partial season?
Meeke had a big gap to Rossel after stage 3 (20 sec) at stage 4 had a puncture and now the gap to Rossel is just 2 sec Gryazin strangely slow,anybody now why?...
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