[WRC] News & rumours (part II)

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Originally Posted by Tomi

This is what the die hard skoda fans seem to forget, but when a guy who never has won anything starts to talk about winning cars, and how with small changes make the Fabia into a winner they buy it like nothing.

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I don't think anyone here believed what Henning said about Fabia being a potential winner, in fact I don't even believe that is quite what he meant.

Colin was 43.7s behind Duval when he retired, last time I checked less than 1 minute does not qualify as a plural.

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Originally Posted by RS

Colin was 43.7s behind Duval when he retired, last time I checked less than 1 minute does not qualify as a plural.

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The relevant thing you maybe understand is if you look at the list of retirments, that might maybe put the fabia preformance in a different light.

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Originally Posted by Tomi

The relevant thing you maybe understand is if you look at the list of retirments, that might maybe put the fabia preformance in a different light.

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Colin's times throughout the whole rally were quite competitive, however of course the position he was running in was mainy because of the number of retirements.

But the man is sadly no longer with us, and the car is 4 years old next year, ancient history compared to a Focus or C4.

And I look forward to 2009 when I expect Mikko Markkula will be travelling rather faster, relatively speaking, than last time he was in a Skoda ;)

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Originally Posted by RS

And I look forward to 2009 when I expect Mikko Markkula will be travelling rather faster, relatively speaking, than last time he was in a Skoda ;)

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It will be interesting to see if Skoda this time has an professional attitude, or is there again a bunch of Sveijk's running around the car without any aim to reach.

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Originally Posted by 4Regioni

For JBMarcus21:
Peter Senior Van Merkensteij 8 Wrc events
Peter Van Merkensteijn Junior 8 Wrc events
Mads Ostberg 8 Wrc events
Federico Villagra 8 Wrc events

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ok thanks .. i don't knew for Peter Senior Van Merkensteij program ;) ???

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Originally Posted by Tomi

It will be interesting to see if Skoda this time has an professional attitude, or is there again a bunch of Sveijk's running around the car without any aim to reach.

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I am confident the programme will be much more succesful this time.

The car looks good and they have tested it well, there are new management and engineers in place and the driver lineup is good this time too.

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Originally Posted by jbmarcus21

ok thanks .. i don't knew for Peter Senior Van Merkensteij program ;) ???

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senior will do the same program as junior :)

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Originally Posted by RS

I am confident the programme will be much more succesful this time.

The car looks good and they have tested it well, there are new management and engineers in place and the driver lineup is good this time too.

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As what I was going to tell. However, I don't know who those testdrivers have been.

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Originally Posted by RS

I don't think anyone here believed what Henning said about Fabia being a potential winner, in fact I don't even believe that is quite what he meant.

Colin was 43.7s behind Duval when he retired, last time I checked less than 1 minute does not qualify as a plural.

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"Skodaen gikk som ei kule. Ja, jeg synes bilen var bedre å ratte enn Forden min. Det er ikke så mye som skal gjøres før dette blir en skikkelig vinnerbil, sier Solberg."

This is what Henning presumably said, if it's correct that he said exactly this, it means that (translated) "The Skoda went like a bullet. I think it was better to drive than the Ford. It doesn't take much work to transform it into a real winning car" - but he doesn't put it into perspective, I think he means in a national norwegian level.

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Originally Posted by A.F.F.

As what I was going to tell. However, I don't know who those testdrivers have been.

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Kopecky, Baumschlager, Lindholm, Sainz, Panizzi and Hanninen.