[WRC] News & rumours (part II)

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Originally Posted by Marcco

You missed the point. Paddon has winner mentality. Some people just have that mentality and they are good at anything they do. In my opinion Loeb and Ogier has same mentality, and look at their career path - they were early winners.

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Yeah. And what was Paddon won so far? A production cup in which we had by far the best prepared car and team. In the years before we took a beating from Armindo and he has not proved anything so far. I hope Paddon is in fact a future star but he is far away from being compared with Ogier.

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Originally Posted by rage82

From Planete Marcus twitter: "Today rumours speak Neuville will be in M-Sport Qatar Wrt with Ostberg & Al-Attiyah..."
Sounds interesting, doesn't he have some sort of contract with PSA?

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Very interesting. Citroen may be struggling to have budget to run Neuville since they will run 3 official cars for atleast 5 rally's. Let's hope Neuville gets a seat.

Apparently Citroen only has budget for Neuville for a maximum of 9 rallies.

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Originally Posted by rage82

From Planete Marcus twitter: "Today rumours speak Neuville will be in M-Sport Qatar Wrt with Ostberg & Al-Attiyah..."

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I don`t think that M-Sport will work with driver without budget.

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Originally Posted by Xsara Fan

I don`t think that M-Sport will work with driver without budget.

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From what I understood from the talk of Nasser, the sponsorship from Qatar covers most of the budget Ford gave M-sport as an official team.

So in the end it's more or less like last year. I think they can afford 2 "official" drivers.

Interesting from JB @planetemarcus "Today rumours has Neuville at M-Sport Qatar WRT with Ostberg & Al-Attiyah” Silly Season

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Originally Posted by &quot

From Planete Marcus twitter: "Today rumours speak Neuville will be in M-Sport Qatar Wrt with Ostberg & Al-Attiyah..."
Sounds interesting, doesn't he have some sort of contract with PSA?

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It's a big News.. Big team with big fast drivers just One is a little bit dangerous !!

about the neuville rumour:

Al-Attiyah will Neuville zu Ford holen*:: rallye-magazin.de

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al attiyah wants neuville, they are kind of friends and they might offer him a whole season. all is payed from qatar then of course. might be a good choice for neuville or also a bad. but i think he will stick with citroen(or at least psa), cause they always believed in him and he would be nowhere without them. also he might have a bright future there, depending on what hirvonen and sordo will do next year and what neuville himselve is capable of. on the other hand that could be the wrong decision, if hirvonen and sordo will be good there´s not really a need for neuville for the next years. while ford defenetly lacks of top drivers at the moment. neuville to me is one of the best young guns, together with tänak. think they both will be (or could be)future champions.

Colin Clark's response to the rumours about Thierry (from Twitter):

Heard from Thierry "still talking with Citroen and we have plans together" Sounds like he's being a clever boy and keeping all options open!

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Originally Posted by Xsara Fan

I don`t think that M-Sport will work with driver without budget.

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Maybe Thierry can bring some budget to M-sport who know's?

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Originally Posted by Sulland

How reliable is the source for the M-Sport/ Østberg rumours?
rallynoticias.es as far as I know.

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There was Quatar Redbull WRT presentation in Paris yesterday apparently and Nasser told the press Mads will be leading driver, he does 7 rallies (first Sweden) and Malcom decides second driver seat. How reliable sources are I don't know but I got it from few.