[WRC] News & rumours (part II)

Sources?

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Originally Posted by Kielder

Latvala had an accident against a car which entered the test stage. It was a front impact. He and his co-driver are OK, but two people are injured.

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He's off to a good start then, is he Jinxed or what?

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Originally Posted by Kielder

Sébastien Loeb ‏@Loeb_Seb1 Europa duerme, tenemos un rumor? :) )

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He wrote it a few minutes ago on Twitter. Translated: "Europe is sleeping, do we have a rumour?". I'm not sleeping, tell us boss, what's up? :bounce:
Maybe he is confirming that he'll run in Argentina.

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Fake account.

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Originally Posted by mousti

He's off to a good start then, is he Jinxed or what?

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He crashed this year testing in Portugal too. You can say it's normal to have an accident while you're testing, what is unusual is crashing twice against private cars. First one happened during Sweden's recce in Colin's Crest. I don't know if it's more worrying crashing against an old woman in an open road or against two Mexicans in a closed road the first time you drive the Polo. It's even more than double whammy.

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Originally Posted by MartijnS

Fake account.

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It's obvious reading the profile. It was very late... :o

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Originally Posted by Iskald

I can`t really understand why I`m bothering with this....But, mediocre driver??? Mads Østberg??? If I should rate your post, it would be s strong candidate for a "Joke of the Year"-award!
I will however not bother to discuss your arguments, it will just be useless...

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First of all thanks for the award :heart: :heart: :heart: :heart: :heart: .During the years in wrc i have seen a lot of drivers at his age being MUCH MUCH FASTER.For drivers of his age at the past we were discussing about how many championsip they will take and not if they are able to win a rally,like we do now for mads.I dont thinκ it is necessary to mention them because since you are memeber of this forum i'm sure you know all of them.I would appreciate if you could give me one more award for this post.

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Originally Posted by nafpaktos

First of all thanks for the award :heart: :heart: :heart: :heart: :heart: .During the years in wrc i have seen a lot of drivers at his age being MUCH MUCH FASTER.For drivers of his age at the past we were discussing about how many championsip they will take and not if they are able to win a rally,like we do now for mads.I dont thinκ it is necessary to mention them because since you are memeber of this forum i'm sure you know all of them.I would appreciate if you could give me one more award for this post.

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It's not about who has been faster. It's about who is faster now. Name?

No, please, some examples before we go on this discussion...

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Originally Posted by tommeke_B

It's not about who has been faster. It's about who is faster now. Name?

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This moment except from the top drivers he is the best from the rest but this doesn't make him a potential top class-future champion driver.Jari for example was faster than mads when he was in smaller age than mads and before take an official seat.

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Originally Posted by nafpaktos

This moment except from the top drivers he is the best from the rest but this doesn't make him a potential top class-future champion driver.Jari for example was faster than mads when he was in smaller age than mads and before take an official seat.

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How did you figure out that?

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Originally Posted by nafpaktos

This moment except from the top drivers he is the best from the rest but this doesn't make him a potential top class-future champion driver.Jari for example was faster than mads when he was in smaller age than mads and before take an official seat.

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Some drivers improve... Mads Ostberg is becoming faster all the time (his improvement on asphalt was huge this year), but he is the most consistent of all young drivers in the WRC right now (Novikov, Tanak and Neuville are no examples of consistent drivers, at least not yet). Richard Burns has been world champion with winning almost no events (being not the fastest driver that time). Mikko Hirvonen has been almost champion twice (2009 and 2011) without being the fastest. And that's why I think Mads Ostberg is a potential future champion. :)