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Interesting question for Suninen and his agent. If he gets offered a WRC drive for next year he should take it IMO - because the works chance may not come round again. You never know. If he can get himself a two-year deal like Camilli did then at least he buys himself some time to learn on the job.Quote:
Originally Posted by AL14
We've seen how hard it is to dislodge the current crop of drivers will all the experience and seat time they have.
His agent is Timo Jouhki (he was also behind Kankkunen, Mäkinen, Rovanperä and Gardemaister)Quote:
Originally Posted by Simmi
He should know what to do!
My opinion is: Get 1 more WRC2 season.
The old days are over where he could do whatever he wanted with his oil money promoting dogs to teams in WRC... Now teams prefer to hire real rally drivers.Quote:
Originally Posted by pantealex
Oh well yes. If he gets offered he will (and IMO should) accept because as you said you never know what future will bring.Quote:
Originally Posted by Simmi
Suninen drove his first event in WRC2 in Germany last year. He did two rounds in FRC 2015 with Fabia S2000. Poland is his 17th start in 4WD car. I wouldn't say he crashes too much, though it's not unheard of. His learning curve has taken me by surprise. He is now on far higher level than he was a year ago. Or half year ago. He is progressing fast. Suninen is not taking the normal path anyway, so I say it wouldn't be bad for his career to step up if possible.Quote:
Originally Posted by AL14
It has been very big surprise! Rather sure that Suninen will drive Toyota next year. It seems that he is better than Lappi and Tommi wants at least one Finnish driver who is able to fight with the WRC top drivers in the future...Quote:
Originally Posted by Hartusvuori
ahh, lunch break. dmacks started to give up, thank god! lol
Suninen is of course an exceptional talent, and all tough I - on a general basis - think drivers need a little maturity - age - before they go to WRC, Suninen is a driver I think could handle it. Just as long as he is in a good program with out to much pressure.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hartusvuori
He is incredible.
Pontus, Lappi and off course Evans are VERY good drivers, with MUCH more experience, and still Suninen beats them hands down.
I saw him first time on the Neste Rally Finland in 2014, and it was a lot of talk about him. He had very little rally experience, but he drove REALLY well. I think he finished 17th overall and 3rd of the 2WD cars.
Timo Jouhki has also done a very good job with him, and also the time with Toyota has off course been benificial.
Will be very interesting to follow this young gentleman in the future :)
Evans isnt doing any favors for himself to get back to wrc at the moment while being slower than Tidemand and Lappi and even Kruuda. But rally is still long.
As we all know, Jouhki was behind Hirvonen and is still behind Latvala also. And I heard he was seen in Lithuania couple of weeks ago when the son of Rovanpera was driving there. Quite interesting...Quote:
Originally Posted by pantealex
Maybe one season more WRC2 for Suninen would be good, IMO Hirvonen wasn't ready for factory seat when he was signed for Subaru. As we saw few years ago, there is no harm for the driver to drive a car in the lower class. (Ogier with s2000 Skoda 2012)