Petter Solberg just said at swedish tv that he going to do swedish rally next year, "for sure"!
Some deal with tommi and Toyota on its way?
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Petter Solberg just said at swedish tv that he going to do swedish rally next year, "for sure"!
Some deal with tommi and Toyota on its way?
http://www.rallye-magazin.de/wm/nach...llye-schweden/ good news for Sweden keeping themselves for another 3 years in the wrc. guess now Canada & Japan won't be added to the championship, at least not as snow rallies?
The search for the new Sebastien
http://www.rallysportmag.com.au/home...-new-sebastien
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Originally Posted by Eli
On the contrary Oliver Ciesla said in in interview with Swedish TV that he doesn't rule out having two winter rally if it can be done within/along with WRC's growth plans.
The interview was done Saturday so the new deal hadn't been reached yet at the time of the interview.
http://www.vf.se/sport/bilsport/prom...svenska-rallyt (article is a short resume of the interview)Quote:
Han öppnar även för två vintertävlingar i kalendern. – Jag ha så mycket passion för vinterrallyn så jag skulle inte ha något emot att ha två. Kan vi klara det i linje med vår övriga tillväxtplan så.
Låt mig ha idén och följa upp den, sen får vi se.
The full interview can be seen here (starts after 1min 15 sec): http://www.svtplay.se/klipp/6491379/...vader-och-vind
I think he will compete in Historic again.Quote:
Originally Posted by skarderud
However he got an cryptic answer from Seb Ogier on Twitter mentioning he looked forward to any challenge...Quote:
Originally Posted by dupanton
He said this summer that he wont do historic anymore, because he won it 3 times already.Quote:
Originally Posted by dupanton
Then he was probably in talks with Citroën, i presume.
If Toyota have a "testseason" in 2017, why not?
More likely Toyota.Quote:
Originally Posted by skarderud
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Interview with Paddon: http://www.svt.se/sport/motorsport/p...gern-nasta-ar/
Msport-Lazer partnership
http://www.m-sport.co.uk/m-sport-new...th-lazer-lamps
Any photo of differences of view?
I don't know how it will look with Lazer but with old led's light was sh*t. Great ball of light and nothing more, in my opinion standard light pod is much betterQuote:
Originally Posted by dimviii
Trust me, Lazers are very good. I have an experience aswell.
Right from beginning of Fiesta R5 official M-Sport lightpod was from Lazer. Just now it's new design as previous was too weak - too "short" light.
Normally LED lights don't reach specs of Xenon tubes however particularly in rallying I guess that the reachable specs. of each light pod type is more or less driven by the rules not by the technology limitation.
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/122828 Breen's and Matton thoughts about sweden and the rest of the season respectively
Markko Martin is back behind the wheel for Legend Boucles de Bastogne 2016 this wkend with Escort RS1600 ➡ http://goo.gl/1eA5Rl
Strong words from Meeke re drivers boycott !
http://beta.autosport.com/news/repor...boycott-threat
i agree. For years it seems to me that the organizers and FIA doesnt want to listen to drivers. Same in F1 and im sure also in other classes. i remember many drivers being very mad at australia last year.
What happened in Australia last year?
There was a night stage which drivers didnt want because you get a lot of dust in australia and you dont see anything.
Drivers voices should be listened to - as safety is an important issue.
What I don't want to see are threat of boycotts if conditions are tougher than usual. Modern era WRC is watered down as it is - when organisers try to add something different, I dont want to see complaints.
There is FIA, promoter and teams. Nobody is interested in opinion of organisers or drivers...Quote:
Originally Posted by EstWRC
ok you know it better because are inside these thing or something :) ...but yeah the message is same, they dont listen.
Drivers should be heard but they cannot decide themself boycotting stages.
I hope that the boycotting ideas are due to the fact they are not listened, and not to the fact they had to drive there. What I mean is, ok, they should be on meeting but they have to accept the outcome of that meeting no matter if they agree or not.
@AL14 Driver's perception about how dangerous a ss could be under some specific conditions is closer to the true than the opinion of each rally organization.
M-Sport @MSportLtd
Today we surprised the boss with a little Birthday celebration... 60 years young and still going strong!
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Happy birthday Malcolm.
Internal competition is scheduled to Citroën from Rally of Portugal among the drivers competing with DS3 R5 in WRC2 is taking shape. In addition the winner will contest the Catalunya Rally of Wales and a Citroen DS3 WRC, already they revealed some of the names that will participate in this kind of unofficial one-make trophy that will perform the signing of the two chevrons. Including the return of an old acquaintance.
Along with Quentin Gilbert, Yoann Bonato, Karl Krudda and Sébastien Chardonnet, also is the return of Evgeny Novikov, who has two seasons away from the World Rally Championship after running in 2013 as a pilot of M-Sport. After two years away from the stages of the World Cup, in which he has even made the work of co-pilot in Russia, Novikov seems determined to go back and choose to drive a DS3 WRC against protected Citroen (Chardonnet and Gilbert) seems a good first step.
The Russian, 25 also have been tempted by Tommi Mäkinen (as reported in the paper edition of the French AUTOhebdo) to try one of the Toyota Yaris WRC for next season. If anyone missed Evgeny Novikov, it seems to be back.
http://www.diariomotor.com/competici...s-con-citroen/
on the one hand, the drivers should be able to give input and should be listened to.
on the other hand, they should stop whining. it's not the fia or the promotor who's pushing the gas pedal, if they believe they're going too fast to keep it on the road they should slow down.
i just don't understand this. you could drive on slicks if you wanted to. of course you wouldn't be able to go 110km/u on average, but that doesn't mean it can't be done.Quote:
Originally Posted by Meeke
to me it seems they think driving in anything but the very best conditions with the very best material is not worth it.
To be honest, I think the drivers comments in Australia last year were much more justified than in Sweden this year. Then there was dust, which made the competition unfair. In Sweden it was just about being on the wrong tyres. Isn't it a great aspect of our sport too, seeing drivers in conditions that aren't ideal? It's a part of our sport, that drivers have to get out of their comfort zone. The speed would be lower than in optimal conditions (which drivers prefer), so normally the consequences of a crash should be smaller as well... In Monte it happened so much that drivers were on wrong tyres, even on much more dangerous stages (for both drivers and spectators), and nobody ever complained...Quote:
Originally Posted by nafpaktos
What's the deal with Novikov? He was last in the championship the year before I followed WRC. He seemed to produce decent results and was fairly young, but completely disappeared from the WRC landcape.Quote:
Originally Posted by dimviii
The only things I remember about him are (i) he uses English pacenotes with co-driver Ilka Minor, and (ii) his bonnet flew up and blocked his windscreen one year at NORF, and he decided to continue driving instead of stopping to fix it, "oblivious" to the fact that Kris Meeke was literally right behind him for a few kms.
The only problem is he crashes too much..(watching Alsace 2011, Denis wasn't amused)Quote:
Originally Posted by lewalcindor
i dont understand. theres a shoot out between the drivers who are named or novikov goes straight to DS3 WRC in spain and wales?Quote:
Originally Posted by dimviii
What the news says it's that Novikov will take part in the DS3 R5 extra-official trophy against Citroen protegé Gilbert and Chardonnet (isn't Chardonnet going to drive a 208 T18 from Loeb Racing??)
i understand that Yoann Bonato and Kruuda also take part.
Yes, it seems that Citroen revelead some names for the trophy. Bonato, Kruuda, Gilbert and Chardonnet along with Novikov (!!!). Don't know what it's their source.
I agree.Quote:
Originally Posted by tommeke_B
I'm not against what drivers say, I repeat they should be listened but they can't decide themself. It's true what nafpaktos says, drivers know more than anyone else how can be dangerous out there but this doesn't mean they can take decisions ALONE boycotting stages. They should be listened carefully but they should be only a part of the discussion. Otherwise they could take decisions too much comfortable to them.
At the end, as someone wrote some months ago, if any of us can drive with fog, or without studs in snowy roads, those guys who are the best drivers in the world with the most performing cars (in terms of grip) in the world, can as well.
EDIT: Want just to add that in Australia I think with the drivers had a sort of point, especially regarding the spectators safety.
we drive on snow but with snow tyres, while they have only studded tyres option for Sweden. It is not impossible they drive slower with them when there's no snow, but may be this is not what is expected of them - driving faster is what is the competition is about, promotion and do forth, running at 150 to 200 kph on Rally Sweden is what everybody expect. On one hand I agree this is rally with all the challenges ahead, including improper equipment, on the other hand I tend to agree that this is not good for the sport, including safety. Sweden is suppose to be snow rally, but sometimes the weather doesn't agree.Quote:
Originally Posted by AL14
Anyway this is not precedent in history of this rally, 15-20 years ago there was similar case, I remember McRae one year complained about such road conditions when all studs are gone early, fortunately nothing bad happened then, but I wonder what is supposed to be the solution for this? Are the tyre supply rules not comforting to these challenges? Or it is more about the competition issue?
In the 80´s Blomqvist had no studs what so ever on front wheel at end of stages. He complained about the car but drove furious anyway... And it was icy roads...
Come on, the conditions in Sweden were better than usually in Liepaja, ERC. Also the stud retention function of tyres is way better today than in the past.Quote:
Originally Posted by stefanvv
Out of curiosity. Here in CZ no studs are allowed but we had a winter rally till 2006, even with WRC cars. It was never too dangerous, just stupidly slow. In fact it was very interesting to see which tyres work in such conditions and what is interesting, sometimes stock winter tyres were better option than racing ones. Also old pattern from 1980' when Barum was making competition non-studded snow tyres was brought back with a stock protector tyre - and it worked better than Monte Carlo style racing Michelin tyres without studs! Last time such conditions appeared was Prague rallysprint 2011. I was on one stage where PG Andersson with Michelin Monte Carlo tyres was 3 s/km slower than Tlusťák with stock Nokians with additional cuts!
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