Hehe, if all these news are true we will have at least 20 rounds of IRC. No way... :)
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Hehe, if all these news are true we will have at least 20 rounds of IRC. No way... :)
Mixed news - great that potentially the COI is in a major International series. However, I'm not sure what it says about British Rallying that an event that has been praised by all might not run. Sad if true.Quote:
Originally Posted by sal
And that there is no other meaningful championship as part of which it could be run.Quote:
Originally Posted by AndyRAC
Well any other country would put it in their National series.....I truly despair sometimes.Quote:
Originally Posted by BDunnell
It seems as if Scotland is definitely out of the 2012 calendar. Circuit of Ireland has been made an offer as it's replacement.
That doesn't necessarily mean the end for Rally of Scotland however, they will maintain dialogue with Eurosport about returning in the future when they really need to integrate it with the BRC.
The rally will not be in the calendar of the IRC but will be even not run in 2012.. Tour of Mull is not bad also..
Great shame – a fantastic event, great stages, stunning scenery. One slight problem, held in the UK.....
Quite simply, here in the UK the sport isn’t attractive to potential backers, commercial sponsors, etc
Too bad :( I really liked the Scottish event...Quote:
Originally Posted by RS
Does anybody know the program of Karl Kruuda for next season? Our czech eurosport comentator Zdenek Mika said yesterday, Karl will cooperate with Skoda closer. Either seat in factory car or in importer car, but in such case I expect him to drive with better specification than old JM engineering car. (something like Loix and Mikkelsen did this year)
Kruuda said that he is planning to do less rallies next year (I think this year he has something like 17 rallies?). Looks like he will be in SWRC again and some events in IRC. But nothing is clear yet.
I hope he'll do so, and I also hope he'd get some notable result next year. He is getting rather well-experienced for his age and now it's time to show the speed. He's too likeable guy to fade into average.Quote:
Originally Posted by bluuford
It would be nice if Hanninen, Mikkelsen and Neuville all got good championship programmes next year. That could be a mega title battle!
Re: Kruuda, I wondered whether Sandell might try something similar to get the latest spec car - if Loix is not going to do a full IRC programme next year Skoda Motorsport should have some capacity.
I have my doubts on both Andreas and Juho doing a full IRC championship.
Do you think they will most likely do VW Testing? Do you think they will enter some "special" Fabias into many WRC Rounds?Quote:
Originally Posted by mousti
Something like that indeed :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Plan9
Skoda UK will continue with Mikkelsen in IRC 2012 !
That is good news for IRC also!Quote:
Originally Posted by mousti
Thierry Neuville to Skoda in 2012 ??? Was it what Sport.cz wrote ??? :confused:
Apparantely they had been in negotiations but those negotiations collapsed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tom206wrc
Actually I am glad about that. If Neuville had been with Skoda next year then Peugeot would probably have to take Loeb & Ogier to IRC to beat them :D
No, already discussed in other threads. The negotiations were stopped but one never know...Quote:
Originally Posted by Tom206wrc
It went went wrong with the Manager of Neuville probably wanted too much.. It could go on again next year though but for now it's off.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
I have heard that they stopped the negotiations for now, but just for a week. After that week they will meet again to see if different oppinions can meet. :D
Situation is still the same - they are still negotiating. Only different articles on internet are changing minds of readers...
On Belgiums sites Neuville said he wanted to respect Peugeot Belgium by discussing a future first with them, before looking on the Skoda/VW offer.
I think the most important is for that contract, will u get a WRC program eventually yes or no.
I think with Skoda he might even do some WRC rounds, I know he did J-WRC but it's always nice to build experience on WRC rally's.
He's good but not that good as IRC/SWRC champs.
Neuville is much better than the 2010 SWRC champion Xavier Pons.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barreis
And he beated Juho on a Mixed stage with limited gravel experience..
if you means Cyprus rally Juho has beaten by himself after a driving mistake
Pons also had some good performances. Especially in Kronos xsara WRC.
Sete , come on did u miss Golden Stage?? It was clearly that I meant that.. Would be stupid that I compare performances from those two on SS1 when he had a crash makes no sense at all. Kronos Xsara WRC is the past.. It's now what is important..
Pons drove Canarias this year in a lightened Fiesta and was setting similar times to Basso in the Proton.
On the other hand Pons was on Hankook. Don't forget that.
I looked the Golden Stage and I wondered if there excists a s2000 car that is capable to survive such driving over the full rally distance? I think no :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by mousti
Umm I think rallydrivers on that level now, that they have to adapt to every event and have a different setting to drive. Such competition is full throttle the whole stage, every second u don't do that u will lose that competition. So it stays the same Neuville won in exact same situation like Juho.. None of those two had to save their car..Quote:
Originally Posted by bluuford
Finnish tv programme Motorsport reported that Arctic Lapland Rally and IRC organizers were indeed negotiating on starting IRC 2012 from northern Finland, but it will not happen. Rally organizers considered IRC fee (mentioned to be around €150 000) too high.
I hope they would negotiate further in the future, say 2013 season. If it would be announced early enough for promotion with plenty enough good drivers, throw in some ex-F1 drivers if necessary and organizers should get they moneys back and rally spectators a decent international event.
Decent is a very modest word for Arctic Lapland Rally ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Hartusvuori