Should Solberg be in a factory seat for 2013?

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Originally Posted by noel157

There was a good reason he got the seat, well, actually 1 million good reasons...........

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On a certain level, I suppose Ford were just making the best of a bad situation. Tanak, Novikov and Ostberg weren't ready to join the works teams just yet, and there wasn't really anyone else who could fill in the gap.

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Originally Posted by Plan9

@Noel157: I hope he has another 1 million reasons in his pocket now. Is there even a slim change he could get something with Prodrive?

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Yep, hope he can buy seat somewhere, Prodrive or M-Sport don't do charity/give seats, it's all business these days.
Unless of course Citroen Norway do something or DR manages to find a large sponsor or Petter gathers a group of backers together but after his last private effort that would be difficult.
I'm sure he's still got plenty of his Subaru pay-off money left so if he could put aside his pride he could be sitting on the start ramp at RMC.

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Originally Posted by Prisoner Monkeys

On a certain level, I suppose Ford were just making the best of a bad situation. Tanak, Novikov and Ostberg weren't ready to join the works teams just yet, and there wasn't really anyone else who could fill in the gap.

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OMG. Tell me please, when will Mads, Evgeny or Ott be ready to join the works team? After first title? After second title? In 2056? When?

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Originally Posted by Xsara Fan

OMG. Tell me please, when will Mads, Evgeny or Ott be ready to join the works team? After first title? After second title? In 2056? When?

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Well, in fact... Tanak never drove a WRC-car before this year. And be honest, Evgeny Novikov has never shown much consistency before this year, something that improved a lot this year.
For next year I completely agree with you. ;)

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Originally Posted by tommeke_B

Well, in fact... Tanak never drove a WRC-car before this year. And be honest, Evgeny Novikov has never shown much consistency before this year, something that improved a lot this year.
For next year I completely agree with you. ;)

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Actually Tanak drove D-Mack Fiesta WRC in GB 2011, and did quite well. But one can't judge from just one Rally :)

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Originally Posted by stefanvv

Actually Tanak drove D-Mack Fiesta WRC in GB 2011, and did quite well. But you can't judge from just one Rally :)

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Exactly, you shouldn't make decisions based on one event, that's gambling...
Ogier did very good in Wales 2008, but in the 2009 season it showed that he still lacked a lot of experience with a WRC-car.

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Originally Posted by tommeke_B

Well, in fact... Tanak never drove a WRC-car before this year. And be honest, Evgeny Novikov has never shown much consistency before this year, something that improved a lot this year.
For next year I completely agree with you. ;)

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Novikov's consistency happened the moment Denis Giraudet started co-driving him and has continued despite the injury to Denis. It seems he now 'gets it'.