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Emil Bergkvist has new managers "V&V Management" (Kim Vatanen & Atte Varsta) (and yes Kim is son of Ari)
vw secured wrc programm at least till 2019
http://www.autosport.com/news/report...medium=twitter
Sordo and Neuville nomimated for points at Argentina
i'm a little surprised they kept neuville in the A team for this event based on recent form...but i suppose he has more overall experience than paddon thereQuote:
Originally Posted by dimviii
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/123183 VW reconfirmed until 2019 & confirming testing for next year's car already well underway
Cars #3 & #4 were the nominated ones for Mexico & Argentina.Quote:
Originally Posted by dimviii
Who would want to take over the car that has had more hits than Elvis and attempt to head off the VW's
For Neuville could this be the last chance for him to man up and undertake the task that is expected of him..
Well if nothing else Neuville has the best road position of all the Hyundai drivers after a tough pair of rallies.
Penasse waiting for him to win the rally due to road position.Quote:
Originally Posted by Simmi
They just change the stickers on the cars, not the cars.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mk2 RS2000
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Originally Posted by Grundo Farb
The VIN numbers are what are registered, not the stickers. Any toss pot can change a sticker. This is about registering the actual vehicle for the events and not just a random vehicle out of the shed.
Suggest you check out the regulations as they are quite interesting and help to explain the background to many of the things you see happening around events.
I agree which is why when Sordo was injured last year Paddon had to drive Sordo's car with the wrong base set-up as they couldn't change it at short notice as it was the car that was registered.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mk2 RS2000
Still don't understand why Paddon would drive Neuvilles car as Number "4". If they register Paddons vin number then he would drive his car as 4.
Is Camilli doesn't perform in Argentina he'll be out of a drive...
Paddon's car is not registered as the manufacturers team entry for Mexico & Argentina, cars 3 & 4 are. If Hayden was to drive for manufacturers points then he would have to be in either of these cars.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grundo Farb
The manufactures team registration of cars was required pre Mexico.
Do you know that for a fact, or are you just speculating? Only a few events in would be very soon...Quote:
Originally Posted by GigiGalliNo1
Please stop.Quote:
Originally Posted by GigiGalliNo1
I can't imagine Camilli being dropped anytime soon... unless he crashes in all 14 rounds this year...
and who would be replace him? Evans?
Malcolm is very happy with him even if he is crashing and yes, please stop with all this nonsense
When will you be out of a forum?Quote:
Originally Posted by GigiGalliNo1
no need for that, just do not pay attention to the little kid.Quote:
Originally Posted by EightGear
Cool to see a proud father wearing his sons overalls :)Quote:
Originally Posted by dimviii
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Originally Posted by EightGear
You guys are as bad as the some of the people who work in the WRC itself! Pathetic. You hear something you don't like or think it's made up, or a rumour that I've heard and you want to get rid of me.Quote:
Originally Posted by N.O.T
You have noticed the name of this thread or are you too important for everyone?
The fact that whatever your "WRC friends" say to you because they like to laugh behind your back with your naiveness you rush to post in here plays a bit into that...Quote:
Originally Posted by GigiGalliNo1
So far we heard from you only false rumours. What do you expect ? to take you seriously ? you are a laughing stock in here (and probably a laughing stock between your WRC connections since they play you like that) and you caused that to yourself.
The worst thing is one of these days you are going to get something right and none will pay attention to you.
Take me for example, everyone in here respects me, is nice to me (especially the finns... i heard rumours about renaming Lordi square after me) and thinks i am a the bright beacon of hope for the sport, thus nobody argues with what i say and take my word as gospel.
Oh and to answer your question i am an important and vital part of the ecosystem, i mean like REALLY important like the sun.
:)
We need you both, at least now and then, to have a good laugh. Keep on your stunning work.
I was thinking about this the other day. In an ironic way Elfyn's winning performances so far this year might actually prevent him from getting back into a WRC car as quick as he would like. For M-Sport there is a lot of PR to be had from winning WRC2 and the BRC against all those other rival cars.Quote:
Originally Posted by EstWRC
Also we should remember Camilli is on a two-year deal.
yes a two year-deal but it doesnt mean much. When Tänak first went to m-sport in 2012 it was said that it was a five-year deal but what happened was that he was dumped next year. That deal is still a mystery for estonians because at times it seems it wasnt cancelled because Tänak was back in 2014 for wrc2 and back to main team in 2015.
i remember when Tänak was asked about it then he didnt give a straight answer, always went to the next question or something like that.
Having said that i believe that Camilli's deal is much more waterproof. Like i said, Wilson seems to be very happy with him even when he is crashing.
Hi all:wave:
After 3 events of WRC i have my opinion about all M-Sport/Camilli thing. As it was said before, Wilson have Evans and Tänak close his side, but not in main team. Also there is Mads (many says that he isn't fast enough to be 1st seat in WRC factory (for now in semi-factory) seat). And also out of the blue there is inexperienced Camilli. Wilson has two drivers - one from Citroen, another from Toyota. So called "slow" Mads is in 1st seat, and he is happy, Wilson gets Mads' knowledge about Citroen, and maybe about Citroen's 2017 car, I'm think there could be drafts of that last years. Same with Camilli - he want to be in WRC ( Everybody wants :) ), maybe Toyota wasn't so sure about his future, so Camilli need another option, and he also has knowledge about 2017 spec car from another manufacturer. I imagine, that Toyota has strong engineering squad, with good ideas. So Camilli happy in WRC seat now, not maybe next year or 2018 or whenever, and Wilson again happy to get secret info. M-Sport thinks about future, and Wilson have all reasons to be very happy. Car in progress, 4 drivers "fighting" for 2 seats, also data from different tires manufacturers. My guess - next year Camilli switch to Evans. And maybe Evans 1st, Mads 2nd. Don't judge me - it's just my opinions and thoughts. ;)
Welcome to the forum. Interesting theory but I'm not sure that Mads and Camilli know as much about the 2017 cars as you think. Certainly in the case of Camilli he was never brought into Makinen's fold.Quote:
Originally Posted by electroliquid
I think the same can be said about Mads, I think Citroen had decided not to keep him so as far as I know he didn't test the 2017 car and even if he got any tests with the 2017 car it would have been way too early to gain any significant knowledge.Quote:
Originally Posted by Simmi
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/123211 Rally mexico will drop the 50 miles stage in 2017
WRC promoter Oliver Ciesla: "We do not see the added value; endurance is sufficiently covered in the WRC as it is."Quote:
Originally Posted by Eli
Oh really Oliver? I'd love to hear the thinking behind that statement. Every event is a fucking sprint now.
Having 1 really big stage in an event does not do any good, if it early then big gaps might develop and we might have too many retirements which might lead into a boring rally after it, and when you have it late then everyone is on cruise mode like in mexico.
In my opinion the WRC should have stages between 15 and 35 kms plus just 2 superspecials preferably at the start to act as shows for the uninitiated. If they want to add endurance they should try and see where and how they could have a safari style rally with 3 days of huge stages.
100% with NOT on this one...except for that i think there should be longer stages than 35km, 50km maximum for me but definitely no stages under 15km's.
Last year we had those longer stages on Corsica rally but that was on tarmac and it was boring as hell for me and painful to follow with those huge gaps between stages.
So Im wondering what people think of a car match of Evans and Citreon, with my limited knowledge and based purely on observation I would have thought Evans driving style matches Citroen. Smooth and straight. Anyone have any thoughts? An all British drivers team with a French manufacturer next year lol
m-sport is his only chance i think. I think Matton would like to have Neuville and if Neuville doesnt get his act together in Hyundai then he will leave i think. His deal comes to and end this year and Matton publicly last year said that it would be good for Neuville to join Citroen.
m-sport to get more power
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The AP4 regulations inNew Zealand seems a very good way of moving forward in regrds to nationally homologated 4WD rally cars with R5-ish performance.
Its basically a spec car wich you can mount to every brand of similar sized small car. Very interesting and clever!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vv0LpoDcQcI
http://www.motorsport.org.nz/sites/d...ally%20Car.pdf
That bloke is clueless about rallying. Does he actually know what Endurance is? Funnily enough, interest in rallying is falling - yet guess what form of Motorsport is growing in popularity? Yes, endurance racing; more and more 12/24 hour races are on the calendar.Quote:
Originally Posted by RAS007
Malcolm Wilson was interviewed last month on the DailySportscar website, and this comment says it all.."Endurance racing is like rallying used to be..."
They'll never get it right, because they don't understand the sport. Every event the same just isn't working; 2 days followed by 40/50km on a Sunday which is almost pointless - why not finish the event on the Saturday night? If you must run on the Sunday - then make it worthwhile.
The Mark James interview on Absolute Rally before Christmas was telling; RedBull are merely repeating the same mistakes that ISC/ NorthOne made. Why will anything be different?
The AP4 regulations are a NZ (and to a lesser degree Australian) initiative to produce regional homologated cars for use in FIA sanctioned events. They are eligible for entry into the domestic NZ championship, as is any car. They are not, at this time, the regulated formula for that championship.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lundefaret