[WRC] News & Rumours (part V) 2017

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Originally Posted by MrJan

190 stage miles isn't far from being a village event ;) Saving grace is that you can actually do more than 2 stages on Saturday this year without too much effort.

Given the possibilities of using great stages within the UK it's a bit of a shame to see the same set used year on year. Also they've shoehorned the event around a crappy spectator stage. Not sure they want to be shouting about maintaining the ticket prices either, it's a f***ing rip off as it is.

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Agree on the 190 stage miles. That's an afternoon stroll, and pretty pathetic.

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Originally Posted by MrJan

190 stage miles isn't far from being a village event ;) Saving grace is that you can actually do more than 2 stages on Saturday this year without too much effort.

Given the possibilities of using great stages within the UK it's a bit of a shame to see the same set used year on year. Also they've shoehorned the event around a crappy spectator stage. Not sure they want to be shouting about maintaining the ticket prices either, it's a f***ing rip off as it is.

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I really wish they'd move it from Wales now. Probably won't happen but I'd love to see the GB round rotated between Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Northern England etc. There's so many great stages in the UK and it would add some new excitement instead of the samey feeling of every year being down in Wales. 3 or 5 years in one location and then move to a different part of the UK.

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Originally Posted by Watson

'Can't have the same diffs' as in they don't have enough, they can't give it to him because of regulations or they don't want to give it to him because they want to give Ogier an advantage?

Also, Ogier is better at saving tyres by default usually.

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Dont know the exact reasons...but it was expected that at some point Wilson puts all the cards on Ogier and others are left behind.

To me it look strange not having same material. Tanak has to come back to reason why, before we judge.

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Originally Posted by EstWRC

Dont know the exact reasons...but it was expected that at some point Wilson puts all the cards on Ogier and others are left behind.

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Reason is simple. They were not able to manufacture enough new parts. As this is sealed component and you can replace this after Sardegna, he has to manage with oldone for Sardegna as well.

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Originally Posted by bluuford

Reason is simple. They were not able to manufacture enough new parts. As this is sealed component and you can replace this after Sardegna, he has to manage with oldone for Sardegna as well.

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I suspected that. Team orders are one thing but giving your works drivers lower spec cars is a bit crazy. You want them to collect points and stop others from doing so after all.

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Originally Posted by MrJan

Not sure they want to be shouting about maintaining the ticket prices either, it's a f***ing rip off as it is.

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I was thinking the same thing. They are only freezing the prices because they don't want to go over that £100 Rally Pass threshold. Bad PR for sure.

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Originally Posted by EstWRC

Dont know the exact reasons...but it was expected that at some point Wilson puts all the cards on Ogier and others are left behind.

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This constant excuse-making for Tanak is getting boring now. He has had the same equipment this year until Portugal and only finished ahead of (road-opener) Ogier once.

And you cant blame M-Sport for getting behind a 4x world champion that they are paying a fortune in any case.

im not making any excuses, i just wrote what newspaper and Tänak himself wrote

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