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Sure. I'm a Finn and I had basically forgotten him until he started winning IRC rallies. I probably hadn't even heard about IRC until then. For me he was best known for wearing underwear the wrong way. Winning something in PWRC is nothing my opinion. As said these are my opinions only.Quote:
Originally Posted by Viking
Not that I'm generally interested in how guys wore their pants, but that was Urmo Aava. Hänninen had wrong pants on. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by mikkov
Well this was about beeing "basically unknown when he joined Skoda", Hänninen was not to bad with the WRC 05 (but the car was). Often fastest when he turned up with an gr.N car, and his first IRC win where in an Peugeot... And yes, some DSQ'sQuote:
Originally Posted by mikkov
But we are a bit off topic maybe... :)
Don't forget Hyundai will probably want to have a VW Year of testing so whoever they hire will be prepared not to be in competition at all for that period of time. That may narrow the list somewhat.
Best wishes to Hyundai on this WRC comeback! Hope Nandan will have better conditions than last WRC tryout with Suzuki.
yes hopefully! the sx4 was really crap. but when you take a look back, suzuki had lindholm as a testdriver. shurely a great driver in national championchip but to get on top in wrc you need someone else. for asphalt testing they could get duval as a test driver(noone was faster then him on asphalt, you can tell what you want!), damn i still would love to have him a comeback :) a great testdriver also could be grönholm.
for the driver lineup my first choice would be sordo. he is shurely also a very good testdriver. and i still think that andersson and atkinson are very good drivers, they could have a chance in my opinion. also hänninen is very good, even on apshalt, but still sticks with skoda. so is mikkelsen, he could be a very good choice. also linked to vw and skoda yet, but who knows. he is still very, very young (only 23 years old, sounds weired to me, because he´s around for so long already, i took notice of him in 2007 first time). östberg also started to convince me this season i must say. and i still think that tänak has a bright future and so is neuville(but he shurely will stick to citroen/psa).
but there are so much other names around at the moment who do a good job. breen, arzeno, abbring, paddon...
Don't hope for a comeback of Duval... It will not happen!
yeah, i know. but he had a great aggressive driving style. i still have nice memorys from rallye germany 2007 with the xsara. that was awesome.
Duval was fast indeed, but both crashprone and (what iv'e heard) not to easy personality, so i don't think he will be back.
mikkelsen is young, fast and serious, he started driving wrc 16yrs old. He said this week he aiming to be the most fit driver in wrc, after he run Oslo maraton last saturday. I don't think many other wrc-drivers will do that :)
Suzuki had no money so I wouldn't blame Lindholm for not having skills. He was working on development of other cars as well - for example he and Baumschlager are the not-known names of the initial Fabia S2000 development.Quote:
Originally Posted by darkstar