[WRC] News & rumours (part II)

Matton: Seb the Third can make the grade - http://www.maxrally.com/2013/11/17/matt ... -the-grade

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http://www.maxrally.com/2013/11/18/vvroom-for-kruuda

Sordo has been given two options for 2014:

Citroen or Hyundai

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Originally Posted by danon

Matton: Citroen approach 'different' for 2014 - http://www.crash.net/wrc/news/198264/1/ ... _2014.html

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That sounds like Meeke and Kubica to me.

Could well be.

On Thursday after Llandegla I visited the service park to see the position selection event (interesting couple of hours). Wandering around the non WRC areas I caught sight of a well-known guy in a red jacket talking to Yazeed Al Rahji in the latter's service bay marquee. Now does anyone think that while Citroen WRC are Abu Dhabi sponsored, that Citroen / Peugeot R5 may well end up in Saudi green? Or was the Yaz looking to step up to the big stage?

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Originally Posted by Mintexmemory

On Thursday after Llandegla I visited the service park to see the position selection event (interesting couple of hours). Wandering around the non WRC areas I caught sight of a well-known guy in a red jacket talking to Yazeed Al Rahji in the latter's service bay marquee. Now does anyone think that while Citroen WRC are Abu Dhabi sponsored, that Citroen / Peugeot R5 may well end up in Saudi green? Or was the Yaz looking to step up to the big stage?

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haha come on, the rally guys are all together for a week, it is normal that somebody stops for a chat with somebody else

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Originally Posted by Mintexmemory

On Thursday after Llandegla I visited the service park to see the position selection event (interesting couple of hours). Wandering around the non WRC areas I caught sight of a well-known guy in a red jacket talking to Yazeed Al Rahji in the latter's service bay marquee. Now does anyone think that while Citroen WRC are Abu Dhabi sponsored, that Citroen / Peugeot R5 may well end up in Saudi green? Or was the Yaz looking to step up to the big stage?

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Citroen is supposed to have the support of Abu Dhabi next year, Matton said clearly they will have an extra car for Qassimi in selected events, so I don't think so.

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Originally Posted by SlowSon

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Originally Posted by Mintexmemory

On Thursday after Llandegla I visited the service park to see the position selection event (interesting couple of hours). Wandering around the non WRC areas I caught sight of a well-known guy in a red jacket talking to Yazeed Al Rahji in the latter's service bay marquee. Now does anyone think that while Citroen WRC are Abu Dhabi sponsored, that Citroen / Peugeot R5 may well end up in Saudi green? Or was the Yaz looking to step up to the big stage?

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haha come on, the rally guys are all together for a week, it is normal that somebody stops for a chat with somebody else

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This was not stopping to have a chat... the marquee was nowhere on the routes Matton would ordinarily have been taking. I'm not a lip reader but this was definitely discussion, not just a 'chat'. Now whether anything significant occurs I couldn't predict, but if Citroen are committed to just a 2+1 effort for the Abu Dhabi team next season then if a certain customer is prepared to take a package that won't require factory support then there may be a deal to be done. I'd say R5 / RRC is most probable if I were a betting man!

Yazeed's car is run by MyRacing.

Guess who the owner of that team is? That's right - Yves Matton!!

Nothing to see here, move along.