Pirelli Star Driver

[Carlo]

Pirelli should be embarassed by the whole fiasco of poorly prepared vehicles and for letting the star drivers down by continuing their association with a team that obviously are totally out of their depth in the world of competition vehicle preparation.

Not one of this years star drivers has been given a fair chance to show their potential because of basic beginners type of equipment failures and/or very poor set up.
Drivers sugestions are ignored by engineers (and I use that word loosly) who think they know better than drivers who have been building and racing cars sucessfully since they were about 15 or 16 years old

[dimviii]

Pirelli should be embarassed by the whole fiasco of poorly prepared vehicles and for letting the star drivers down by continuing their association with a team that obviously are totally out of their depth in the world of competition vehicle preparation.

Not one of this years star drivers has been given a fair chance to show their potential because of basic beginners type of equipment failures and/or very poor set up.
Drivers sugestions are ignored by engineers (and I use that word loosly) who think they know better than drivers who have been building and racing cars sucessfully since they were about 15 or 16 years old

Agree!
too many problems already have told from 2 participants of the psd,at Acropolis.
it s a pitty whan millions of euro spent at this way.

[tolis]

Does anyone know if the future Pirelli Star Drivers will utilize the same Ralliart Italy run Evo 10s?

I hope not...
Yes, I somewhere read that the Evo 10s will also be used next year...

[Mirek]

I think that there is 2 years-long contract.

[smokin'joe]

Yes, I somewhere read that the Evo 10s will also be used next year...
on a good day, another company will be responsible for the preparation and running of them.

[ProRally]

]I think that there is 2 years-long contract.

You are correct Mirek, lets hope they get their act together.

In Spain :

3 engine blown : Tapper on road section to SS4
Thomas on the stage
Semerad on leg 3

2 gearboxes : leg 1 Semerad
otherone i forgot who

On penultimat stage Williams was told to switch anti-lag off to bring the car home, but with no anti-lag he went off, but managed to bring it home anyway

It is sad to see, the drivers where unlucky this year, lets hope 2010 will be better

[Barreis]

Italy teams have their own way of taking business..

[Helstar]

Italy teams have their own way of taking business..
Don't generalize ... one black sheep doesn't mean all the italy teams are bad.
It's like saying people of your country are all bad ! :p xD

[bowler]

This team is not a bad team either.

The cars have not been good, no doubt about that. None of us know the reasons, all we can see is the results

[Carlo]

Italy teams have their own way of taking business..
So why does this one not take a leaf out of the book of Ferrari, Fiat or Lancia?

Perhaps they should paint the cars red and get some passion to succeed and a will to win back into it.

[noel157]

I presume Pirelli are writing cheques every rally for these problems. Would have thought the accountant in charge would say by this stage, "enough is enough".
The budget agreed in January must be twice the amount by now.

[bluuford]

So, we have now the final Pirelli Star Driver announced. It is Nicholai Georgiou, from Lebanon.
The full List:

1. Paddon
2. Tänak
3. Raschi
4. Horsey
5. Georgiou