[WRC] News & rumours (part II)

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Originally Posted by tommeke_B

Mostly hard... to understand! He has the opportunity to drive in best possible conditions, but chooses for DMack... I think it's clear enough already that with those tyres you will eventually lose some time everywhere?

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maybe he had little choise, as the second Ford driver has to bring budget? Petter Solberg had to bring 2 miljion euro to have a seat with M-Sport.I thing Qatar only pays for Ostberg, Al Attiyah and Neuville

Regarding the programmes he did previous years ('09, '11 and '12) I doubt he needs money from DMack...

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Originally Posted by alleskids

maybe he had little choise, as the second Ford driver has to bring budget? Petter Solberg had to bring 2 miljion euro to have a seat with M-Sport.I thing Qatar only pays for Ostberg, Al Attiyah and Neuville

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Slight correction Qatar pays for Nasser and Neuville. My info is that Mads buget comes from a Swedish owned computer company :-) formely known as NDS.

then Novikov likes to gamble on D-Mack for making a (positive) difference. He had his best WRC results (podiums) on D-Mack

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Originally Posted by MJW

Slight correction Qatar pays for Nasser and Neuville.

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Ostberg brings his own budget? If Qatar does not pay for Qatar M-Sport WRT, then why be the title sponsor?

Because al'Attiyah is driving for Qatar M-Sport and Neuville is driving for Qatar WRT. They get title sponsorship of two teams, with minimal outlay.

May I ask - when will D-MAck become equal with Michelin regarding performance of the tyres? Will they ever? Or have they already become equal?

Maybe that´s what the guys already know?

Let´s wait and see, before making judgements. The times that have been is just nothing until we know the status of todays development.

Am I wrong?

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Originally Posted by alleskids

then Novikov likes to gamble on D-Mack for making a (positive) difference. He had his best WRC results (podiums) on D-Mack

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I thought Novikov did only Spain on D-Mack? Novikov has been on podium 2x in WRC, that was in Portugal and Sardinia this year. On Sardinia he was on Michelin, 100% sure. I think Portugal too?

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Originally Posted by Rallyper

May I ask - when will D-MAck become equal with Michelin regarding performance of the tyres? Will they ever? Or have they already become equal?

Maybe that´s what the guys already know?

Let´s wait and see, before making judgements. The times that have been is just nothing until we know the status of todays development.

Am I wrong?

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dmack at 2 years to become equal with michelin? No way.

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Originally Posted by Rallyper

May I ask - when will D-MAck become equal with Michelin regarding performance of the tyres? Will they ever? Or have they already become equal?

Maybe that´s what the guys already know?

Let´s wait and see, before making judgements. The times that have been is just nothing until we know the status of todays development.

Am I wrong?

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Don't underestimate Michelin... D-Mack tyres cost only half of what Michelins costs, so it would not be reasonable to expect the same quality. In Belgium, Viaene-S12 WRC tested them in the beginning of the year, but after the test he never used them again, so I guess the difference in costs is not worth the difference in performance? And that is for national level. Not talking about a WRC-event with loops of over 80km with same tyres.