Prodrive Mini WRC

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Originally Posted by Franky

Could someone explain me the logic behind the decision to run one additional rally at the beginning of a new season to make the decision? What is one rally going to change, that I don't understand.

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time to find a sponsor.

I will never-ever buy a BMW in my life, even if I had the money. I hope their DTM program fails miserably.

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Originally Posted by Barreis

No more works mini (at the moment it seems) and if Eurosport cotract fails, sport is going down again.

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Can it go any further down?

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Originally Posted by Allyc85

Can it go any further down?

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Negotiations for the promoter/TV deal stalling for the rest of the season. VW cancelling their WRC program because of the uncertainty with the promotion of the series. Matthew Wilson finding a solid sponsor for the next five years. Yes, it can still go down from here.

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Originally Posted by noel157

I believe DR was a problem for Munich. Don't know why but they disagreed on many things as the project progressed. That was why he stepped back and put Wilcock in charge. The technical side must be seen as a success, just no money.

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Indeed. What is there for BMW to complain about in terms of performance — surely the fundamental point at stake?

While we clearly don't know all the ins and outs, one is left with the feeling from this and its various F1 efforts in recent times that BMW can deal with running touring car programmes but not much else motorsport-wise.

Autosport go from saying yesterday to saying all rumours are false, then 24hrs later they confirm that rumours are probably true.

We could have been looking at a minimum of 8 cars at every round next year and now back to only a definite 4 again this year and hopefully back up to 6 again next year.

This TV deal is final nail in coffin for Mini project. I think when Subaru stopped with their hatchback rallycar it fell out of favour at wrc level but also at National level with regard to private entrants. I think the same will happen with the Mini.

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Originally Posted by WRCS14

Autosport go from saying yesterday to saying all rumours are false, then 24hrs later they confirm that rumours are probably true.

We could have been looking at a minimum of 8 cars at every round next year and now back to only a definite 4 again this year and hopefully back up to 6 again next year.

This TV deal is final nail in coffin for Mini project. I think when Subaru stopped with their hatchback rallycar it fell out of favour at wrc level but also at National level with regard to private entrants. I think the same will happen with the Mini.

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Autosport said PRODRIVE (Taylor) said that the story was rubbish, no?

Prodrive rubbishes Mini split rumours - WRC news - AUTOSPORT.com

To be exact it wasn´t Autosport that claimed the rumours to be rubbish yesterday, it was Prodrive´s Taylor saying to Autosport they were false. He thought he was going to Sweden, and maybe still does.

EDIT: Slooow.

Todt should be balls cut off after Eurosport deal fail.

BMW to end Prodrive MINI contract?
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