Some words regarding absence of JB Franceschi - https://www.fiaerc.com/why-the-world...on-franceschi/Quote:
Originally Posted by AnttiL
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Some words regarding absence of JB Franceschi - https://www.fiaerc.com/why-the-world...on-franceschi/Quote:
Originally Posted by AnttiL
Has Franceschi had some testing in the Rally3 car before Croatia?
Not so much. He was happy to be back in a rally car.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sulland
He had a very big crash in Rallye du Var in november and wasn't able to drive much untill recently.
What is the source pls?
really surprising if confirmed because withdrawing prize drives when you had budget issues in your career is not something usual. All the more than the championship is quite open and the last round counts double. His first stints for a return were not that bad.
Maybe he has a deal with M-Sport to report the remaining drives for next year?
Or maybe (I hope not for sure) the consequences of his injury are bigger than expected?
JWRC official press-release
Has it always been like that the juniors and Full WRC3 drivers have to start behind the locals driving in a RC2 car?
Does not make sense in my opinion.
It's not like this unless the locals are in WRC2. Currently 40+ WRC2 entries in Portugal.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sulland
WRC2 starts before WRC3.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sulland
and other RC2 drivers after WRC3.
After Virves’ title, who will we have in Junior WRC next year?
In the current drivers:
- Virves will go WRC-2 for sure
- Pajari is also as good as sure in WRC-2
- Joona has won WRC-3 Open and sounds to want to go to Rally2 according to interviews
- Armstrong closes his budget very late this season, will he be able to do it again after a second defeat in a row?
- Creighton did a Rally2 drive in Spain but it was a prize drive.
- No new about McRae Kimathi ... but he loses the Africa Junior title this year to Hamza Anwar.
Among the new drivers:
- Laurent Pellier will be there as ERC4 Junior champion (and will have full 5-round program according to promoter instead of 4-round prize program)
- Max McRae, nephew of Colin, is interested
- Toni Herranen is also interested
Let’s hope more than the 6 regulars of this year but quite skeptical is the prize driver is still so low.
Maybe it would be a good learning for the 3 young Japanese hired by Toyota this year; well for sure, it’s complicated for Toyota to register their drivers in a M-Sport category but facing drivers such as Pellier and making WRC rounds is a good challenge.
Roope Korhonen made a deal with Rautio about doing WRC3 rounds, but not sure if that means JWRC or not
I thought this was Armstrongs last year because he is to old.
At least in 2024 we will have the 4 FIA Rally Start finalists.
On that news article, only WRC3 was mentioned. That would give freedom to the choice of events, too. Let's see how it turns out.Quote:
Originally Posted by AnttiL
and for WRC3 you can use your own car and setupQuote:
Originally Posted by Hartusvuori