Imagine having the opportunity to get tuition from Loeb... Lucky fellow!Quote:
Originally Posted by jbmarcus21
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Imagine having the opportunity to get tuition from Loeb... Lucky fellow!Quote:
Originally Posted by jbmarcus21
position of Motorsport Director is not listed, perhaps they have identified their preferred candidate to replace JostQuote:
Originally Posted by dimviii
Armando Pereira is a true self made man. He leave Portugal at the age of 14 and was able to become one of the wealthy french telecom entrepreneurs. Ironically he was only noticed in Portugal last year, after getting involved in PT Telecom buy out by Altice.Quote:
Originally Posted by Munkvy
For sure he's not the most talented rally driver around, but he runs for pleasure as any other amateur guy. During the years he achieved some interesting results on French regional events, always at the wheel of state of the art rally cars.
https://youtu.be/vVxVjFSdEO8
"some interesting results on French regional events" Well ... We can say he is clearly slow, even for that level. Ok sometimes he is on the podium, but when you look the classification, you can see he is regularly beaten by R3 cars (well drived, but R3 against WRC ...). Of course, there's worst drivers than him, but he is not especially good ...Quote:
Originally Posted by Rally Power
BUT ... he is great guy. He financially help a lot of young gun, as Quentin Gilbert. When you see a french driver - or belgian, like Wagner - with "SFR" on the car, it's thanks to Pereira.
And it's always nice to see such nice car on small events, even if they are not amazingly drived.
They probably search for that position through other channels. I assume they have some kind of shortlist of people and are contacting them directly.Quote:
Originally Posted by KiwiWRCfan
Yep that's not the kind of role you post in the job papers. I read rumours about Sainz which would be awesome. No idea if there's any basis to that. They could have Sainz and Moya as first and second in command - versus Tommi and Jarmo Lehtinen at Toyota.Quote:
Originally Posted by seb_sh
It would be fairly unorthodox for a position that far up the chain to be advertised, I should think. Although having said that, the new MD may indeed have been in duscussions already and just not announced yet. Isn't speculation fun? :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by KiwiWRCfan
Dang - should've read on a bit further. Beaten to it, multiple times.
D'oh...
An interview with Martin Prokop after his first race, Mugello 12h, where he was driving really well. He talks about his possible change of motor sport and also about Robert Kubica.
sounds pretty excited about racing. Do you know what position they got in that race?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mariusz
44th...Quote:
Originally Posted by AL14
http://classic.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/123355
They retired after transmission problem. They had also suspension failure at the beginning of the race (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WVKZA8PMbk at 3:25), but I'm sure they both had a lot of fun.Quote:
Originally Posted by AL14
Podium arrivals are always interesting results, no matter what car you drive or whoever comes ahead of you. According to Ewrc data, Pereira managed to get 27 podiums and 3 overall wins. That’s amazing for a “clearly slow” guy…Quote:
Originally Posted by vino_93
"Podium arrivals are always interesting results, no matter what car you drive or whoever comes ahead of you." ...
... Well, that is the "angle of view". For example Prokop. He is a privateer so he will never fight for win in WRC. Some people say he should downgrade and drive ERC and fight for podium or even drive some national series and fight for win. And we all know he is fast enough to fight for win nearly everywhere else except WRC rounds. BUT he doesn´t want to. It is not challenging enough for him. (and moreover his sponsors want him in WRC) ...so that is the angle of view.
I'm sorry to say but Prokop would not challenge the win in most of the ERC races unless other driver have troubles or DNF's.Quote:
Originally Posted by liposh
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Its good to see hamburger boy and Kubica had fun in racing, lets hope they stay there.
Are you sure?Quote:
Originally Posted by liposh
I dont think that new rules from 2017 helped to bring new manufacturers. I think they onle helped to keep VW in the championship.
Well, I am not sure. :) I would trust him for example in Mitropa or something like that, but on the other hand he is not gentleman driver for sure. And in my opinion he could be somewhere around Lukyanuk speed on Canary Islands, don´t you think? ...And being czech member on international forum I have to be nice when talking about czech driver(s) :)Quote:
Originally Posted by PLuto
That is interesting question, where he can be in results in reality. We dont have so many comparisons. Last ones are Cyprus in IRC and Bohemia in Czech championship, but this was always with S2000 car. Now he is driving with WRC car. If he will go to lower category, he must use R5. And it is question how fast he should be there. And it is also question how fast he should be on events in ERC, which he doesnt know...Quote:
Originally Posted by liposh
I think Prokop might do quite well in WRC2 with R5 car. He's not the fastest driver around, but he's experienced and doesn't make a lot of mistakes. Plus he's used to higher tempo of his WRC car, so he might not be afraid to push R5 to its limit.
I don't know much about ERC, but he's already shown he can get into new kinds of races pretty quickly. He finished his very first Dakar in 14th place and now he even did decent times in 12h endurance circuit race in Italy. Jumping into ERC probably wouldn't be much of an issue and I believe he is good enough driver to get on the podium at least in some events.
and slow Hirvonen was 4th (and Loeb also inside top10)Quote:
Originally Posted by USER47
I'd say finishing 5 places behind the most successful rally driver ever is quite a success for Prokop:). Someone like Loeb would totally destroy the competition in ERC or WRC2, Prokop is obviously not as good, but he could still be very competitive there.
Μsport launches vp racing fuels specially for r5 fiesta.This man knows his job better than anybody.
http://www.m-sport.co.uk/m-sport-new...p-racing-fuels
Does Skoda & PSA siblings also have their own fuels..?
Hayden Paddon launch NEW Zealand Rally Team ➡ http://goo.gl/Eg5D8A
Official NZ team uses old model i20, stupid!Quote:
Originally Posted by jbmarcus21
Car is RightHandDrive.
That's AP4 version..(with 1.8L engine)
any news from French speaking mates?
http://oi66.tinypic.com/2aj29hs.jpg
Briefly,Quote:
Originally Posted by pantealex
The countries of the Asia Pacific region drive on the left hand side of the road hence right hand drive.
Current version of the i20 on sale in NZ is the "old" model, no sense in building a car that does not have any spare parts available, especially body panels & lights etc.
My understanding is that new version of the i20 is not planned for NZ sale and that the i20 will be withdrawn from the market while Hyundai concentrate on the sales of the i30 and the Santa Fe which are amongst the market leaders. These are both more suitable for our body size and style of living / working than "Grandma" cars used for pottering around town.
I am sure that the promotion will be all about the brand Hyundai and not about any model in particular.
My french is a little rusty, but the headline says that their on time with the new car and are on the final assemble now. Car will start testing next month. It says also that the model of series prodution it's still confidenticial, but the car will be based on the all new C3, and that the new car will be tested by their drivers plus Alexander Bengué. Loeb could also participate, as Matton said that "it's not excluded. It would be interesting."Quote:
Originally Posted by dimviii
My french is also rusty, there's a bit at the end about drivers for next year. They will probably run 2 official cars and possibly a third for al-Qassimi on selected rallies. They will make a shortlist of drivers in the second trimester and they acknowledge there's a risk Toyota may swoop up some drivers but he says that due to Citroen's past performances they should be very attractive to drivers. Obviously Meeke is signed until end of 2018.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheFlyingTuga
Tänak and Meeke please :p...great to hear they are on track with the developement, im expecting big push for VW's from them in 2017.
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And to be fair, what other manufacturer/WRC driver has created a car for their home market using WRC body panels, it's a pretty cool idea...Quote:
Originally Posted by Mk2 RS2000
A very good question.Quote:
Originally Posted by Munkvy
Here is a video from Force Motorsport, the team that has build the Hyundai, this from a build up of a Mazda 2 under the same concept:Quote:
Originally Posted by Mk2 RS2000
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vv0LpoDcQcI
What is especially cool about this AP4 concept is that it allows for nationally homologated cars of R5 performance, which means that manufacturers/importers/dealers that want to do a national rally effort, and dont have a homologated car (like Volkswagen), can do it on their own with a ready developed package.
For New Zealand and Hyundai, this opens up for them being able to use the popularity of Paddon to attract fans in a more optimum way than him driving an old Ford (even tough he won Rally Otago in one last year.)
The factory rally drivers are in effect car salesmen, if they like it or not, so to be able to be a part of the marketing is of course very important.
Pretty parts.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lundefaret
Zero technical details..like what motor? what size? what suspension? How much travel?
No mention ever of cost.
No Easter Eggs for them.:arrows:
http://www.motorsport.org.nz/sites/d...ally%20Car.pdfQuote:
Originally Posted by janvanvurpa
Technical information available at your fingertips. Cheers
At current rates of exchange the maximum budget figure that was worked to is $US167k Euro150K UK Pound 118k
Evgeny Novikov will take part in traditional rallysprint Rally Masters Show in Moscow. He will drive Audi Quattro. Other big names - ERC regulars Lukyanuk and Gryazin. News about it (google translate it): http://ru.motorsport.com/russian-ral...s-show-682755/