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It wasn't same car. There was still some development ongoing in CRT with several homologations up to 2007 (You can check it on FIA website). AFAIK no other cars ever had these new parts except those of Kopecký.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wim_Impreza
He won as much IRC rounds in 2011 as the IRC champion Mikkelsen and also as much as Neuville...Quote:
Originally Posted by mousti
Fact remains that in a private team he achieved far more than the factory team drivers did in the past. But then the factory management at the time was poor and the drivers weren't very good either....Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
Maybe he might do a couple of tests in the Polo to give VW another perspectiive as he didn't do a bad job developing the Fabia S2000, but I can't see him getting a factory drive. Would clearly be a different story if he was German!
IMO Kopecky would be capable of doing some very good results in WRC, but only on certain events (ie. Germany and Catalunya)
U don't listen, the guy is at his peak! He has no progress, the guy is almost 30 has much more experience than Neuville who's 23. Who's still learning, and showed he has great growth progress. He has still the potential, Jan hasn't. If Juho seems almost being sidelined by VW, do u think seriously Jan has a chance then.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wim_Impreza
Well if u do, take those Pink Glasses with the name Kopecky on it, off your head and aknowledge what the reality is..
Shortly before travelling to Sweden, Sébastien Ogier was given his first taste of the ‘WRC-specification’ Polo R WRC. Prior to that, he had only driven a hybrid Fabia/Polo version
Volkswagen remains in the cold | Best of Rally Live
any videos of the test?
I can confirm that in the Rally Finnskog, it was Rieger on the car to Andreas M.
In Finnskog it wasn't VW car ;)
I no
... and you recommend to Wim_Impreza to put this one instead. The guy has opinion!Quote:
Originally Posted by mousti
http://img535.imageshack.us/img535/5...nkglassesn.png
I don't dream, I see reality, Neuville is in WRC growing, Kopecky had his chance, he's at his peak.. No Czech members who should be a bit biased about Kopecky didn't say anything negative about my comments. So I don't think I'm so wrong..
Small preview pics of the snow test in the McKlein site:
http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/2392/vwsweden.jpg
VW also used Reiger on the Fabias in Sweden so they could compare them to the Sachs dampers on the Polo test car.
If only those images mentioned in the news bit where shown somewhere, bigger than the size of a stamp that is.
http://www.omnicorse.it/img/articoli...c-completa.jpg
Good to see one of the Dakar trucks getting out for some air!
There's a deal in the works around Weijs Jr doing a program in South African Rally Championship with a Polo (S2000 I think) from VW Motorsport. I know Weijs is indeed in South Africa.
Already confirmed now
Weijs Jr already had a spin with the Polo S2000!
http://i39.tinypic.com/2vdl1fs.jpg
Not nearly as fast as my Touran but I like it :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Andre Oliveira
Interesting story in Autosport magazine. Made a screenshot of it for you guys. ;) (click on it to get a bigger picture)
http://www.imgdumper.nl/uploads5/4f4...t_vw.thumb.jpg
OMGz really?!? Latvala?? I´m shocked.
Not.
Me neither. Just wanted to share an article not many people on here will be able to read, that's all.
Ridiculous article, I'm so glad I stopped reading this magazine long ago.
Really interesting. Naive as I am, I was thinking Abbring had a change for a factory seat. But that's not gonna happen. Maybe he will get a change in a Junior team or something like that.Quote:
Originally Posted by EightGear
Latvala yes...Solberg no...Sordo most likely...Mikkelsens, Abbrings and the rest must pay and drive for a few more years.
Latvala definately yes.
I believe preliminary contract has been signed before this season. Latvala's and Hirvonen's manager Timo Jouhki said that one of his drivers is most propably driving VW 2013. That was before Hirvonen went to Citroen. Of course they do not announce the contract until the end of this season.
Why couldn't they give Andreas the seat? What more does he have to prove? I was sorry to read that Juho has so little experience in a WRC car. I guess there are other teams...
Ogier and Latvala would be an awesome team, as long as they keep it on the road!
Talks about JML in VW have been in the air (even here on the forum I believe) for at least a year but in all those other news&rumors they soon became forgotten...Quote:
Originally Posted by Miika
What´s left for M Sport? Petter and Tanak? Or Petter and PG?Quote:
Originally Posted by 6789
Sordo perhaps as well?Quote:
Originally Posted by Rallyper
More talk from VW on VW: Latvala neben Ogier?*:: rallye-magazin.de
VW: Latvala Ogier next?
With Sebastien Ogier, Volkswagen has been one of the best drivers for World Cup entry in 2013 secured, now stretched to the feelers to his future teammates. Jari-Matti Latvala is considered the first choice.
With VW in the game I think salaries will raise to maybe the level back in the years when we had 5-10 winners in WRC (4-5 million Euros/year)
I doubt that has been average pay at M Sport for JML and Mikko.
Or it could create a situation where other teams either pull out from WRC or other drivers are left with nickles in their pocket.
Money seems to be no problem to Volkswagen. Why shouldn't they have a third works driver and a Junior team? Maybe their Dakar program is not comparable to their WRC program, but in Dakar they had 5 competitive drivers.