Does anybody know if Sardinia wil host next year's WRC rally again? There were some roumors about a move to San Remo for next year?
Hope it wil stil be Sardinia, been there twice, nice rally!
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Does anybody know if Sardinia wil host next year's WRC rally again? There were some roumors about a move to San Remo for next year?
Hope it wil stil be Sardinia, been there twice, nice rally!
Hyundai does have the budget to grow into a serious contender. I do not like to here that they are now developing a car that wil be replaced in 2015 by an other model. First years as learnig, than go for the championship it seems.Quote:
Originally Posted by turves
So maybe best for Thierry to stay at Ford for at least one more year, hope for more good results and hopefully some wins (hoping to atract Ford to become Factory team again) and than see what 2015 brings. By than we might know what the plans of Ford, PSA group, are, and we will know what Hyundai is worth, and who knows maybe by than Toyota is back in buisines.
Unlikely given the Italian round is in May/June again. If they switched it to Sanremo there would be a lot of reshuffling to do to fit it in October (any other time of the year is sacrilege) which would no doubt involve moving either Rallye de France or Rally de Catalunya into the spring/summer.Quote:
Originally Posted by Duvel
Personally I'd like to see Sanremo back as the Italian round of the WRC and Rally Mille Miglia taking Sanremo's place in ERC, but none of that fantasy is likely to happen any time soon :(
2014 Italian round is 100% confirmed to be in Sardinia.Quote:
Originally Posted by Duvel
And rumors about Sanremo? There were rumors about moving the rally to the North-East regions, Sanremo is not even in consideration for a WRC round since a long time, it won't come back any time soon, unless miracles. I guess there were rumors by fans, since it's still a very popular event. Every year in Italy there are rumors about moving location for the WRC round, between Sardinia, North-East, Tuscany and Sanremo, but it's almost always fan-talking.
Erechim Rally, in the south of Brazil, will probably be a candidate event in 2014. They have the best rally in the country and one of the best in the hole South America, I'd say the same level as the Rally Argentina event.
Paulo Nobre is a huge defender of the event, and rumours says that he is directly involved in this project. They've got the support of Minister of Sport of Brazil, and theres already a sports management company working to get things done.
From Colin Clark's twitter:
1. "More interesting news about Robert Kubica this morning. Rumour is he’s close to a deal with M-Sport for full season in WRC car in 2014".
2. "Hearing some very interesting news about who could partner Kubica at M-Sport next year. Kinda blows some of my other ideas outa the water".
So who can be that guy? - my guess is Hayden Paddon.
Sordo:-)?
Paddon could be 3rd 4th driver but not 1st.
Kubica OK for 2nd but nor 1st yet
If not Neuville then no winning driver in the team next year
Next year a learning curve for Hunday they said so it's a lost year for Neuville if he go there.
At Citroen who know what will happen on midterm if 30% PSA shares goes to China.
So practically Neuville has not so much good choice for next year
If Msport already discussing with the drivers about 2014 then a financial background seems OK, means Nasser remains at the team (and Neuville)
At least Timo Jouhki(Latvalas and Hirvonens manager if someone didn`t know...) said in Vauhdin Maailma magazine that M-sport already is clear for next year. But of course under what circumstances wasn`t mentioned. Also as someone already said here Hirvonen is in discussions with M-sport but can`t understand why they would want him unless he brings money..