Joni Wiman from Finland ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by dimviii
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Joni Wiman from Finland ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by dimviii
Cannot believe this is true, these budget numbers are too close to WRC team budgets ... It's only Petter's dream me thinks.Quote:
Originally Posted by JUF
yes seems big numbers,but wrc numbers are much more.Quote:
Originally Posted by cali
I wouldn't be hugely surprised to find out that teams like Hansen and Hoonigan are throwing down that kind of money. I dread to think how much money went to M-Sport for developing the Focus, a customer WRC Fiesta must cost in the region of £500k so a beefed up, brand new 600hp Focus I'd have thought is at least that. Plus all the crew, expensive trucks, hotels, flights etc. etc. must rack up the ££££s fairly quickly.Quote:
Originally Posted by cali
I don't believe for a second they're spending anywhere close to those numbers.
Their personnel, logistics, even event costs are minuscule compared to a WRC team.
1 - 1.5 million for a team, I can believe.
I think they missed out a decimal point, there.
Still, 10-15 mil is unbelievableQuote:
Originally Posted by MrJan
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Petter only spent 3 million pounds on his 2010 privateer entry in the WRC with PS WRT.
It wasn't just about hitting, Petter pushed Ekström off the track into the Armco barrier.Quote:
Originally Posted by mohit
Small nudges might be ok but ramming other cars and deliberately pushing them off the track is not ok and does warrant a black flag.
Rent for competitive supercar is about 50.000€/race.
I remember when Brian Deegan joked on the radio that Dodge spent a million bucks on Travis car cuz he crashes too much, in 2013.
I also heard Block and Foust (block in Barbados, foust in TopGear) saying the GRC cars were "half million" bucks each
Not saying GRC and WRX cars have the same budget and program.. but its a starting point for this speculation! Im gonna ask the guys behind WRX to see if they have some info about budgets!
haha Asked about the 10-15mi budget...
Andrew Coley (WorldRX commentator) said: "wildly over. varies from team to team ; )"
Still waiting for some answers, maybe from the guy who runs WRX twitter account? He's a nice person.
But it could be kinda "indelicate" to ask this question haha..
Renault interested
http://purerallycross.com/index.php/...-world-rx.html
With Petter Solberg / Andreas Mikkelsen :D
Saw a tweet by Andrew Coley earlier which linked to an artcile where VW intimated that they may get a bit more involved in RX...perhaps that's where Ogier is headed ;)
Dont think Ogier is ready to leave the WRC yet... BUT what about the new 2017 WRC Polo ? Why not pass them on to the WorldRX teams ? Wouldn't it be fairly easy to convert them to RX-spec ?Quote:
Originally Posted by MrJan
Ford's new-gen Focus RS RX is already in there and looking mega, so a new VW would be a great addition to that series...
Petter seems to already have a new car deal, not so hard to guess what.... :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Alpha
Edit: Hard, not easy!
Said SubaruNorway... Is he back at Fiji Heavy Industries? Tell us more :)Quote:
Originally Posted by SubaruNorway
There's a clue here :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Alpha
http://www.tv2.no/v/1075101/
People keep talking about the body of the Polo WRC'17 going to RX, but could that be possible? Because, as far as I understand, RX uses old or equal WRC regs, so the Polo'17 is wider than the regs permit it to be! But would be cool to see the extreme bodies with extreme motors nontheless :)
Mercedes through Bertel O. Steen?Quote:
Originally Posted by SubaruNorway
That's the thing, Petter has a good relationship with the car importer Bertel O. Steen, and hardly a relationship at all with Citroën. His current World RX car has no DS logos and certainly no Citroën logos. Imagine that, Citroën missing an opportunity to have their brand on a world championship winning team.
Anyways, so three scenarios:
A) His connection with Citroën has changed dramatically and he'll start in a new factory supported DS3.
B) Citroën is out, but Bertel O. Steen is very much in. Other brands imported by BOS include Mercedes, Kia, Smart (lol, also Mercedes), and Peugeot. Which brand then? Don't know. Mercedes A class AMG RX?
http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/2016...254549c1bf.jpg
C) Something totally different. Less sponsorship from BOS, another manufacturer in.
Take your pick. The video didn't give any definitive answers besides what we already know, he loves to be team boss and will end up like Kenneth Hansen some day. Running a team, bringing up new talent. He already kind of tried with Liam Doran, but he's beyond saving..
V. Gryazin plan to do RX2 next year, and hope drive supercar in Latvia RX event.
http://www.go4speed.lv/lv/news/ralli...t-ar-supercar/
Further development of Gigi's car?Quote:
Originally Posted by Alpha
Matthew James Wilson @mattyjim1
Well done on a great career in F1 @JensonButton. If you need a Rally X car you know where we are !
Andrew Coley sent him a tweet too, something along the lines of "Once you've finished with the F1 party come and join ours in RX". Don't think he'll do it though, maybe a one off drive at Lydden but I'd be surprised if he comes in full time.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
Thankfully the final in Rosario didn't go the same way as the embarrassing semi-finals. Good last race of the season and another win for Bakkerud, hopefully he's going to be on a similar pace next year and can challenge for the title. Meanwhile Kristofferson showed once again that he's a quality driver and earnt himself a deserved second place in the championship, I'd be interested to see what he could do in better.
Petter robbed again, and no penalties were given. Wtf?
it was pretty chaotic in that corner, and hard to judge.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alpha
some time I would like the heats to be red flagged, or drivers to be black flagged.
If red flagged, the torpedoed car, could have time to be fixed before re start, and the culprit driver out of the heat.
It's pretty crazy that the fastest driver by far (look at the times, Petter won all the qualifier heats with more than two seconds) can be first into the first corner and then torpedoed out to what would normally be a DNF, and that's just OK. No penalties given, no flags, nothing. Just robbed.
Then compare that to the little tap he gave Ekstrom which got him disqualified... Fair?
This season has been the FIA World Lottery Championship.
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Originally Posted by Alpha
Hardly a little tap, Petter pushed him out into the wall.
Ekstrom himself said it wasn't worse than the turns earlier and he didn't think it was that bad. He sustained no car damage and was back on the track right behind him. Time lost, tenths of a second.
Now compare that to bring rammed off the track, sustaining damage hard enough to make any other driver in the field park the car and call it the day.
How can anyone say that's fair?
Its not good for a world championship when the races is a lottery. Inconseqvent judges is not proffesional, that is a big problem they have to change before next season.
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There will be no new rule in 2017 because that is their will: they don't want Petter on the highest step of the podium.Quote:
Originally Posted by skarderud
But if Petter gets manufacturer support next year (rumours say Hyundai) they won't have any problem with him on the highest step of the podium anymore...;)
He's doing some testing with a car back home in Torsby. It's not a Hyundai. But nothing is final yet.
Different scenarios. Unfair to compare.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alpha
'They' pay a significant chunk of his entry - these therories are getting out of hand.Quote:
Originally Posted by JUF
Joke.Quote:
Originally Posted by ruesluporp
I think that this year they were keen to have someone else win, but don't feel they overly orchestrated the championship. I do think that both Baumanis and Timerzyanov should have had penalties for their driving yesterday. Both were far more aggressive than Solberg's move at Latvia...likewise (and much as I'm a big fan) Bakkerud has been very aggressive and Timmy Hansen pulled a strong move on Nitiss (??) in one of the qualy rounds (possibly Q3).Quote:
Originally Posted by JUF
Wasn't it Baumanis who got a joke penalty in Belgium so Duval could advance to the final? Officiating is extremely dubious in this sport.