So Sordo isn't doing the full season...? :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Kielder
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So Sordo isn't doing the full season...? :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Kielder
I could never understand why this system, which worked perfectly well, was dropped. That it sometimes threw up odd seedings — Derek Bell at 14 on the 1987 RAC Rally because, if I remember correctly, of his FIA seeding — never seemed too problematic.Quote:
Originally Posted by sollitt
A foretaste of the Rallye Monte-Carlo
a) JML is definitely cursed.
b) It seems it's true that Petter will do rallycross.
c) VW will have problems if this is the advanced system to decide the "fights" between drivers.
:)
Sordo said this about it a few weeks ago: "It's not decided yet the number of rallies that I will run. It's sure I'm going to run eleven, but the boss, Yves Matton, is working hard so we can do the thirteen of the Championship. And he is putting a lot of effort, so I have high hopes to do a full program". Nothing new since then.Quote:
Originally Posted by rjbetty
Regarding the numbers, it was reported that Loeb will use the number 1 in the rallies he will run, Sordo in the rest of them.
Why would they give Sordo the number 1? He's not World Champion. Surely the FIA recognises this - or do they have to have a car with the number 1 at all times?
How come they don't give him Car "0" like Damon Hill had at Williams
Do you know what 0 car means in rallying? This not F1 mateQuote:
Originally Posted by rjbetty
Because the number 0 is used for the course car that goes through the stage just before the competitors to make sure nothing has changed to dramatically affect the route enough that pace notes would be wrong.
I don't see why they can't give Hirvonen #2 and Sordo #3 (and al'Qassimi #4?) and just keep the #1 in reserve for when Loeb competes. There are plenty of series - Indycar, MotoGP and V8 Supercars spring to mind - where the reigning champion has the choice of using the #1 or his regular number if he wants to (for instance, Valentino Rossi always uses the #46) without a problem.
It just seems wrong that someone else other than Loeb should carry the #1 when Loeb is champion, even if he is not competing in a rally at the time. When Alain Prost retired from Formula 1 at the end of 1993, the numbers for 1994 were allocated based on the final 1993 World Constructors' Championship positions. Prost had been driving for McLaren, but Williams' won the Constructors' title, so they got the numbers 0 and 2. I get that #0 cannot be used by a competitive car in rallying, but I don't buy into the idea that the WRC has to have a car with the #1 on its window at all times.
Is it really that important who has what number on their car?
When someone who isn't the World Champion might be given the number that only the World Champion has any valid claim to, yes, it is that important.Quote:
Originally Posted by Franky