Rally Sweden 2015

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Originally Posted by kirungi okwogera

No. I don't know where you got that idea. For one thing, neither of them have driven a WRC car in Sweden - in fact Paddon has driven Sweden once in S2000 and Abbring has never competed there in any car. I like Abbring and am glad to see him get a chance with a factory team, but in WRC his experience is much less:

PWRC/R3: 18 wrc events; S2000: 5 wrc events

And Paddon with
PWRC: 16 wrc events; S2000: 10 wrc events, WRC: 7 wrc events

And frankly having 7 ERC events last year with so many retirements doesn't exactly make up the difference. Of course until they are on multiple rallies head to head comparisons don't mean much in terms of performance, but in experience there's no question...

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Yes but Abbring is the test driver so he is driving a WRC a fair amount at the moment

First test of the new i20 is scheduled for March I believe.

I don't understand Hyundai. Why didn't they take Hänninen to replace Sordo in Sweden? He has experience on the event and the car and snowy conditions in general. Don't they want to succeed? They are curntly second in manu championship, so Hänninen could have allowed them to stay in that position. Well politics is politics

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Originally Posted by Toyoda

Yes but Abbring is the test driver so he is driving a WRC a fair amount at the moment

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That makes no sense to me, he was announced as a test driver three weeks ago. Paddon has been signed with Hyundai for nearly a year, done 7 full rallies in a Hyundai complete with testing.

Again, it's good to see Abbring get a chance but that is a very weird thing to try to claim.

Abbring testing today I think :)

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Hyundai is looking at the future, and apparently they don't see any future for Hänninen in their team... ;) Abbring is a driver with potential to become one of the very best on every surface. I think they are doing a great move with giving the chance to Paddon and Abbring.

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Originally Posted by COD

I don't understand Hyundai. Why didn't they take Hänninen to replace Sordo in Sweden? He has experience on the event and the car and snowy conditions in general. Don't they want to succeed? They are curntly second in manu championship, so Hänninen could have allowed them to stay in that position. Well politics is politics

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They seem to be looking for long term development of drivers. I agree Hanninen would be the conservative choice but he's less likely to have an ongoing career they can take advantage of. And actually while Hanninen knows Sweden better, his best WRC result is sixth, as is Paddon's, so it's not like there's a huge obvious benefit. If they had access to, say, Loeb and were moving a junior driver up instead, I'd agree with you and say "politics is politics". But it's not like Hanninen will definitely guarantee more points than Paddon.

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Originally Posted by kirungi okwogera

That makes no sense to me, he was announced as a test driver three weeks ago. Paddon has been signed with Hyundai for nearly a year, done 7 full rallies in a Hyundai complete with testing.

Again, it's good to see Abbring get a chance but that is a very weird thing to try to claim.

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Αbbring is entered at Sweden because Sordo had an accident and couldn t participate.
Paddon took Sordos place,and Abbring took Paddons place
Except that Hyundai had announced that Abbring will start at 4 rallies this year.

Here our video from last edition.

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Best regards, and enjoy next week!

AMT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8SvkHAoGps

Does anyone know if the standard rally pass gives access to the SSS in Karlstad too? Also, foes it ever get full in the arena? Skipped it last year but I have time to kill on the Friday night this time, so might as well.