[WRC] News & rumours (part IV) 2016

[EstWRC]

hmmm....it maybe a energy drink company i guess?

[bassist]

Not Lucozade Sport?

[GigiGalliNo1]

Source tells me that Red Bull will have a two car team in 2017 with Ogier and Ostberg. 100% confident on this so here we go!

[GravelBen]

Source tells me that Red Bull will have a two car team in 2017 with Ogier and Ostberg. 100% confident on this so here we go!

You're always 100% confident on everything!

[RAS007]

You're always 100% confident on everything!

And usually 100% wrong.

[Toyoda]

Ha the suspense is killing me... my pick,

Redbull Ford: Ogier, Tanak, Ostberg
Dmack Ford: Evans Camili
Toyota: JML, Han, Sun
Qatar: VW Al, Mik, Lap


Not sure about Lappi and Suninen, maybe Lappi will be Toyota and Suninen will be test development driver of WRC and R5?

[Doon]

Ogier has driven the 3 available cars. If the VW IS the quickest (which it will be), there is no way the Ogier will settle for a Fiesta with Mikkelsen in a VW.

[Arwel Davies]

Mr Ogier does appear to have a difficult decision to make and not much time to make it. He has rejected the Toyota offer, he appears to have a firm offer from M Sport and now we have the possibility of the 2017 Polo being run by a private team. Now, he doesn't have that much time to make up his mind on what he wants to do. He could take the M sport deal and feel dissapointed if the private VW team is launched and Mikkelsen gets the seat. He could hold out for the VW team, which may not come to anything, and lose out on the M sport seat as they will have to register their drivers before Monte Carlo and then be left on the sidelines with no seat. Some big calls to make in the next few days. If as he said he could take a year out to be at home with his wife and son then it wouldn't surprise me if he did hold out for the VW seat but I personally think we shall see him in a Fiesta next year.

[MartinMK]

https://twitter.com/DMACK_Tyres/stat...18301274521600
We've got some @ElfynEvans news later this morning #staytuned

[bluuford]

You have to keep in mind that VW so far was the team with nearly unlimited budget. Remember what happened in GB? All cars had transmission issuses and they solved it overnight. So, and if you look how many parts they are homologating over year, then with semi private team, there is always risk that official teams can do more or teams with more cars can do more. Imagine M-Sport having 5 cars like Wilson is dreaming? And VW only two, that means 2.5 times more testing during real competition. So, in short term, Polo is probably fastest.. but long term? Do they still have all the technical staff or some have already left to other teams? this is unknown factor and risk.