Anton Alen wants to make an IRC comeback: http://www.rallye-info.com/article.asp?stid=9106
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Anton Alen wants to make an IRC comeback: http://www.rallye-info.com/article.asp?stid=9106
He wants to make comeback for last two years...
He want to comeback.. but nobody want's him.. hehe
Some will want him but like always money, easy to say I want to comeback but without money u can say that your whole life :)Quote:
Originally Posted by '[Madeira-Rally
It is a shame "Abarth" treated him like they did. What I've heard while Basso and others had new parts and cars, Alén had 2 years older car, if he had car at all, no parts and service what so ever - it is hard to have success, if your team doesn't even want you to be in team / drive :D
I hope he gets proper chance this season with some other team / car.
I dont think that problem for Alen was Abarth, but for Abarth was problem Alen :)
I tend to agree with Pluto here.
Alen showed some promise on faster gravel events but at the end of the day he was too accident prone, too slow on tarmac, bad with the media and simply not as good as Rossetti or Basso. I sometimes wonder if the outcome of Abarth's IRC programme could have been different if they had had those two driving all the time instead of Alen.
Unfortunately, if some of the posts on this forum are to be believed running home and bitching to the national press seems to be a bit of a secondary national sport in Finland.
However one good thing about the the Alen family is that daddy doesn't just go out and buy him a drive, because I think that never really works (ref: Wilson)
It is good to people have opinions, but like that Alén had 5 retirements in 5 seasons for crashes (all rallies, on irc just 2), I wouldn't say that he was too accident prone. I would say that drivers should have couple crashes each season, that then we can know they are really pushing to limits sometimes.
Crashing doesn't mean that you are pushing to the limits... most of times means... drivers mistakes.
But think now...when the chance of making a mistake will be bigger - driving max attack or just cruising?Quote:
Originally Posted by '[Madeira-Rally