why vw drivers pay to drive? so ''everyone'' who wants a championship has to pay,or just walk around and earn millions while moaning about no budgetQuote:
Originally Posted by RAS007
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why vw drivers pay to drive? so ''everyone'' who wants a championship has to pay,or just walk around and earn millions while moaning about no budgetQuote:
Originally Posted by RAS007
Even in IRC works drivers have been mostly paid by the teams.
Was it not an rumour here that Østbergs tried to "buy" the second Citroen seat??Quote:
Originally Posted by RAS007
I don't like the whole "brings money" or "gets paid" separation of drivers. The definition itself is irrelevant and also quite impossible to do without knowing all the details of contracts etc. What is Fernando Alonso for example? Most would say he gets paid as he is but his sponsor bring more money to Ferrari than he gets paid. Does that make him so bad that he has to pay for a seat? :) .
All the top drivers are doing rally for living and are getting money out from it for living. There is of course some exceptions to this rule as always everywhere but it does not change the big picture.
Sponsors (or their PR representatives) would love to have a great, good-looking raising future star in their team. So they will search them. Very hard. When driver is really good he will attract sponsors. Sponsors then start to bring in money to help their drivers. If the driver/manager has been successful in commercializing his personal product there will be a good amount of personal sponsors. In the case of good personal sponsorship (to driver) he will get salary (from sponsors) for driving and in the same time his sponsors bring the money to the team....and the driver gets a pay driver stamp on his head.
Other driver in a different situation may have contracts made so that he attracts sponsors for the team but has much less personal sponsors and so gets immediately defined to "gets paid" category. Usually both the drivers manager and team are trying together to put the best combination package to draw as much money from the market as possible. Will Robert Kubica be paid driver or a pay driver next year if he drives DS3 with huge McDonalds stickers? ;) .
Kovalainen thinking about rally, also Henning said rally or nothing.
Interesting about Kovalainen, he said that in past he had chance to drive rally car but he chose F1.
Well he said more like that in the beginning of his career he had all the possibilities to drive in the woods and go for rallying, but he choose circuit racing instead. But he has driven some stages in Arctic Rally (2003/2004 or something?) with Focus WRC and if I remember right the stage times were quite good?Quote:
Originally Posted by Bartek
Lappi is a new factory driver in Skoda Motorsport. He will compete in some rounds of WRC2. Kopecky in ERC.
Juho Hanninen finished at Skoda, Kopecky and Lappi will be lineup in 2013 - Autosport
So has Juho the budget for WRC?
That's brutal for Juho. An ERC program for two crazy Finns Juho and Jarkko would be a dream..
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