Urmo Aava has a contract with Citroen!

[Tom206wrc]

There's a pic of the car in action on http://www.rally.ee

[jonas_mcrae]

There's a pic of the car in action on http://www.rally.ee

Nice...

looks way better than the works c4

[Roy]

So they could replace Sordo with Urmo, but he would have to drive with Marc Marti then. Am I right? Or is it too late to make any changes to line-ups?

Why should they change the second driver. first It is to late. And second Urmo has indeed a lot of knowledge of rallying, but not with a WRCar. This is his first year with some experience under his belt. You can't expect he drive for competition in the top. It is learning, learning, etc.

[Roy]

I wonder why Urmo is doing so many asphalt events. OK, maybe those vents are just compromise for geographical reasons. But in my view there is not enough gravel events to get steady rythm with wrc-car.

It is the geographic reasons and if he want an all-round WRCdriver he needs to drive everywhere, also on European tarmac. It is cheaper for him to drive (and learn) in Europe, other in Asia or elsewhere.

[Zes]

Why should they change the second driver. first It is to late. And second Urmo has indeed a lot of knowledge of rallying, but not with a WRCar. This is his first year with some experience under his belt. You can't expect he drive for competition in the top. It is learning, learning, etc.

Well, as we have seen Sordo is totally useless on snow...

[Timole]

Some pics also taken by me from the press conference here.

[jparker]

Some pics also taken by me from the press conference here.

Thanks for the pictures Timole. Could you tell us little more about Aava's team. Who is the Team Manager? Who is the Technical Director?

[Timole]

Thanks for the pictures Timole. Could you tell us little more about Aava's team. Who is the Team Manager? Who is the Technical Director?

Team contacts are available here. So this year there is a new team called "World rally team Estonia". The drivers for the team will be U. Aava, J. Mölder and M. Rauam. The aim is to get more spectators to watch rallying and also to promote Estonia.
Urmo will do 10 wrc rallies and all the WRC recce´s this year. Also one Estonian national event at the mid summer in Võru.
The big fuss and reason why we had to wait for the press realease was because of Rautenbach´s team. They had talks with citroen but Rautenbach rushed into things and talked too early about that (Eurosport news) and that pissed off the Citroen´s boss. Then they had to sit down again. Nevertheless at the end of the day urmo has a great opportunitie to prove his quality on the highest level.

[jens]

Can't wait to see Urmo's first performance with C4. Wonder, how'll he do in Sweden? Probably podium position is a bit too optimistic, but points should be achievable. Maybe even career's best WRC result (Top6)?

[N.O.T]

I think it would be positive if he manages to be ahead of sordo no matter the position.