[WRC] News & rumours (part II)

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Originally Posted by pettersolberg29

Just to pass on some info, I'm hearing that van Merksteijn Junior may be doing the whole WRC season in 2011. Senior was impressed with him in Sweden and would like to see him challenge for points.

Personally I think it would be great, as he drives flamboyantly and his cars look great. Anyone who brings money into rallying has to be admired, and I do think Junior did a great job in Sweden.

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Anyone?

Oh, really.......

What are you insinuating? ;)

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Originally Posted by Tomi

yes, thats how it is, + I know Kankkunen will drive a WRC Focus in the actual rally too.
If you are from Kangasala, I hope you dont get me wrong, I dont complaine because the cabinet comes to Kangasala, I complaine that every time when there is talk's about to move the rally more south, Jyväskylä starts a hell of a lobbing session, promising what ever to keep the rally, but for something like the rally hall of fame the dont do nothing.

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Yeah, he was the only Dutch driver not to get stuck in snowbank for longer time :-)

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Originally Posted by bluuford

Yeah, he was the only Dutch driver not to get stuck in snowbank for longer time :-)

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I think Sami can tell a thing or 2 about dutch drivers in snowbanks :D

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Originally Posted by pettersolberg29

Just to pass on some info, I'm hearing that van Merksteijn Junior may be doing the whole WRC season in 2011. Senior was impressed with him in Sweden and would like to see him challenge for points.

Personally I think it would be great, as he drives flamboyantly and his cars look great. Anyone who brings money into rallying has to be admired, and I do think Junior did a great job in Sweden.

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The intention was to do this year 8 WRC rallies with their own M2 team and as you probably know, that didn't happened also.

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Originally Posted by Tomi

I think Sami can tell a thing or 2 about dutch drivers in snowbanks :D

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At least I saw a Dutch driver do a quite aggressive visit into a snowbank a few km's before the rally ended on Sunday :D

Luckily for them our Finnish friends in the forests proved to be well equipped to help them out :)

http://www.maxattack.net/wp-content/...02/RAS7435.jpg

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Originally Posted by swordsman

At least I saw a Dutch driver do a quite aggressive visit into a snowbank a few km's before the rally ended on Sunday :D

Luckily for them our Finnish friends in the forests proved to be well equipped to help them out :)

http://www.maxattack.net/wp-content/...02/RAS7435.jpg

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how long did it take before he was back on the road?

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Originally Posted by Tomi

how long did it take before he was back on the road?

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Not sure but I guess around 10 minutes... Quite a while at least, a number of cars passed... He was quite far off the road (more photos on the blog) and they had to drag him quite a bit before almost lifting the car out of the ditch... On top of that, it was impossible to work when a car approached because of the exposed position on the outer side of the bend...

By the way... The snowbank got removed by noone else than Sebastien Loeb on the first pass. He had his BIG moment there. Should be really happy he got away with it... (It is also the same place as Henning Solberg and Manfred Stohl rolled back in 2006)

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Originally Posted by Wim_Impreza

The intention was to do this year 8 WRC rallies with their own M2 team and as you probably know, that didn't happened also.

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That was the plan for 2009. Not this year.

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Originally Posted by swordsman

By the way... The snowbank got removed by noone else than Sebastien Loeb on the first pass. He had his BIG moment there. Should be really happy he got away with it... (It is also the same place as Henning Solberg and Manfred Stohl rolled back in 2006)

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Was that the righthand corner which was about a km before the jump at the finish?