[WRC] News & rumours (part III)

That whinning scary pussy attitude. I doubt Mr Capito knows he speaks on behalf of a WRC team.
A little reminder from above wouldn't hurt.

I must say, words of Jost Capito during last year are one of the reasons why Volkswagen Motorsport is not sympathetic team for me...

Not so often winning teams are sympathic, Capito is not paid to be nice but to be World champion and he has succeeded in that, twice, which is not too bad. I agree for me VW is not my favorite, but they have done a great job.

Capito is just making interesting what Ogier will make boring:)

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Originally Posted by EightGear

I don't get the running order debate at all. Imagine it the other way round, why would you give the worst starting positions to the slower drivers? It's always going to be 'unfair' for some people. Rallying has got one of the best 'handicaps' for frontrunners available, which are purely natural in contrast to idiotic weight ballasts or reversed grids. And remember, the guy 2nd in the championship will be right behind the leader, it's not like he will be 10th or something.

Let's not even begin about tarmac events, rain, or dust, you name it.

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Bang on mate - I was about to post exactly the same re the 'handicap'..

Must admit I'm surprised so many 'Liked' your post as I thought a lot were against the Championship leader being first on the road for 2 days...

Good to know there's a lot of agreement that it does make sense.

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Originally Posted by Ounin

Capito is not paid to be nice but to be World champion and he has succeeded in that, twice, which is not too bad.

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Four times, actually. He was Ford Motorsport director when Ford won manu titles in 2006 and 2007.

About Toyota...
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/117176

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Originally Posted by Ounin

Not so often winning teams are sympathic, Capito is not paid to be nice but to be World champion and he has succeeded in that, twice, which is not too bad. I agree for me VW is not my favorite, but they have done a great job.

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Nobody is bringing VW's success into question here, it's just Capito's idiotic comments

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Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC

Good to know there's a lot of agreement that it does make sense.

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There is agreement because there's no other simple way to artificially increase competition.
But still, this is scraping the bottom of the barrel.

http://www.rallye-magazin.de/rallyes...ner/index.html
let's hope corsica will replace it