[WRC] News & rumours (part II)

All i said is I read somewhere that they wanted to do "everything in house'...Jeeeezuz. I think we can agree that IF that was true, and i don't recall where I read it, and honestly rally press is notoriously superficial, then that didn't look like a sign of "immediate success" as some are dreaming..

I was mainly thinking back to when the Japanese ran cars in the 70s totally inadequate--a hundred HP less than Escorts, 100+ kg heavier
Or as i said Nissan's GTI-R..

You're connected Mirek, you are virtually in the business and are well informed and interested but I have to say I don't have the time to pay that much attention to Hyundai---I'm busy making parts for our little tiny rally scene in North America....I didn't pay much attention to Mini either---I knew it would be some fiasco, under budgeted, and wrong appoach..

Part of the lack of interest is the enormous difficulty in finding anything like the information we once had for cars when they made 5000 of them and I could go item by item thru homologation papers..Now such a simple thing as "how much suspension travel---a key part of the car----" is, so far impossible to find with certainty... Hard to be interested in people on forum saying "they're soooooooooooooooo cooooool, that just have to have .5 meter suspension travel cause I saw a video blah blah...

I want solid info...in a day when I should be a good consumer and just shut up and buy hats and brullies and energy drinks.

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Originally Posted by janvanvurpa

I was mainly thinking back to when the Japanese ran cars in the 70s totally inadequate--a hundred HP less than Escorts, 100+ kg heavier

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And you don't see how it might be a problem when you start forming opinions based on forty year-old information?

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Originally Posted by Prisoner Monkeys

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Originally Posted by janvanvurpa

I was mainly thinking back to when the Japanese ran cars in the 70s totally inadequate--a hundred HP less than Escorts, 100+ kg heavier

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And you don't see how it might be a problem when you start forming opinions based on forty year-old information?

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Here's an opinion based on fresh information:
What a jerk.
The point was that there seems to have BEEN a trend from then to recently.

To you have an inkling of what they did then? Or in the 80s or the early 90s for some?

Or was that too high a reach for a monkey's reasoning capacities? :uhoh:

I have an excellent idea of what they did next, thank you for asking. After all, I use the Japanese car industry as a case study for my senior Business and Economics classes. It's also worth noting that the Korean car industry in general and Hyundai in particular underwent the same cycle ad the Japanese did twenty years previously.

Does anyone know what will happen with Novikov? Is there a chance we will see him in a WRC car next year?

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Originally Posted by tobbe3

Does anyone know what will happen with Novikov? Is there a chance we will see him in a WRC car next year?

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I do not believe it

The Mini project was a completely different situation. Underfunded and unsure from the start with a manufacturer disinterested in rallying, doomed to fail. A pity as that chassis had massive potential. As Mirek said, the Hyundai approach is far more committed and they have taken the right steps..it took TTE a few years to get going, but when they did..

From Colin Clark

Rumours this morning that an objection has gone to the FIA against the proposed paddle shift modification for Kubica. Anyone know anymore?

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From Colin Clark

Rumours this morning that an objection has gone to the FIA against the proposed paddle shift modification for Kubica. Anyone know anymore?

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If this is true, i hope that team who gave in that objection will be so hated that they leave the championship... i hate them already!!!!!!!!!!! F*****g idiotic cowards!!!

Rumour is VW, wouldn't have thought they would have much to worry about.