Not sure where you heard that from but I got a little bit of gossip very similar to this today too. Not sure if its just hearsay based on his impressive performance at Rallye du Var today though.Quote:
Originally Posted by EightGear
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Not sure where you heard that from but I got a little bit of gossip very similar to this today too. Not sure if its just hearsay based on his impressive performance at Rallye du Var today though.Quote:
Originally Posted by EightGear
I think a big stat there is that Petter won more stages in less rallies in the privateer, well out of date Xsara in 2009 than Ostberg did in a good quality and reliable Fiesta this season. Ostberg simply does not have rally winning pace except in Sweden. And don't bring up the win this season because that was luck and no more, and completely unrelated to pace anyway!Quote:
Originally Posted by kober
How many have they become :DQuote:
Originally Posted by EightGear
1. Hirvonen - confirmed - 13
2. Sordo - confirmed - 8+?
3. Al - confirmed - 7?
4. Neuville - not confirmed yet - 9
5. Loeb - 5-?
6. Solberg - rumour - 7-13?
7. Kubica - rumour - xx?
8. Stein - probably -x?
DS3 WRC in the WRC or RRC in the ERC? :) How many rallies? Asphalt only?Quote:
Originally Posted by EightGear
WRC.Quote:
Originally Posted by kober
To be honest I won't be surprised to see him in Monte Carlo. He has done that one before.
Not that he drove a lot of km in the rally ;) But, I must admit that I'd love to see him on MC's entry list.Quote:
Originally Posted by EightGear
You forgot about:Quote:
Originally Posted by SlowSon
Ogier -13
Lavala-13
Mikkelsen
Khalid
Novikov
no, citroen only
1. Solberg had an opportunity to win 'on Hirvonen's disqualification'. But he 'pettered' (new word!) it as always...Quote:
Originally Posted by Barreis
2. Come on, you seriously think that 'Solberg had to push more as factory driver should'? Private drivers had to push more cause their cars are downgraded.
axaxaxaxaxax post of the month :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Xsara Fan
I've read that Lappi isn't in Rallye Madrid due to "diary pressures" :confused: . A trade-off solution?
That´s why he needs a shrink in the first place. Driving style is another. He needs to keep the car more balanced before entering corners.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
Rally wins: Mads 1 - Petter 0Quote:
Originally Posted by kober
An old saying goes: Lie => huge lie => statistics :)
Yeah, Petter pettered his cars and your guy Novikov novikoved Denis G. :PQuote:
Originally Posted by Xsara Fan
Stein? Who? Did I miss something?Quote:
Originally Posted by SlowSon
I was joking but you was rude and disrespectful. Shame on you.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barreis
Don't like jokes on champ's account. Peace.
Kubica to drive MINI WRC in Monte Carlo
And for everyone who didn't know, Paddon spoke about testing a WRC car last week. It was a MINI ;)
Both bits of news very exciting, thanks GG! Be interesting to see Kubica's pace in a car which we know can compete with at least the likes of Ostberg and Neuville. If he gets near them then perhaps Bobby K has a new career path!
As for Paddon, I still think it's too early for a WRC car but would still be excited to see it happen.
Source?Quote:
Originally Posted by GigiGalliNo1
Matt - any sources about Robert?Quote:
Originally Posted by GigiGalliNo1
Team member of MINI/Prodrive
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Originally Posted by GigiGalliNo1
You mean the mechanic on twitter that said Kubica would not be in a DS3? That's hardly a confirmation that he will be in a Mini.
Rally Du var 2012 Speculations
SS1 2012 and SS7 2011 are similar. 2011 JML (Fiesta WRC) 5:12.6, 2012 Kub (C4 WRC) 5:09.3
2011 SS2 and 2012 SS7 similar too. 2011 JML (Fiesta WRC)10:32.3, 2012 KUB (C4 WRC) 10.26.9
This comes from Iwan evans Twitter
Difficult to compare. JML had WRC control tyres (slower), they had very different cars and the conditions weren't absolutely same either. Maybe You remember pictures of completely destroyed control tyres on JML and Ott's car from last year.
Good god - he sounds desperate. Still love to see him in 2013!Quote:
Originally Posted by EightGear
He'd probably want to after the number of mistakes he made in 2012.Quote:
Originally Posted by EightGear
Is he worth money any more (PR value aside...)?
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Originally Posted by EightGear
I hope so !!! Please not in a Mini Kubica !!! :mark:
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Originally Posted by bennizw
I'd be happy :D
In the same time another rumour read on Autoklub(polish site) Thierry Neuville would join M-Sport partnering with Qatar/Al Attiyah :confused:
There's a lot of rumours of people driving Citroen. Clearly they need the customers to underwrite the budget a lot more than they have in the past.
There could be more Citroen's than Ford's for a change!
As I wrote before Robert Kubica confirmed WRC entry next season in TV interview,no details though as for car or rallies (speculation about Citroen, Ford and now Mini). Matton was very impressed with Kubica drive in C4 despite late accident in Rallye du Var (co-driver error apparently).
What are rumors for :D
For sure that´s a bargain for Malcolm!!Quote:
Originally Posted by rallyfiend
Actually, everything. Apart from this year's SWRC, but glitches do happen .. event to the very best.Quote:
Originally Posted by Francis44
Many of you think of Paddon as young & inexperienced. At 25 he's no longer young. With 10 years of very competitive competition he is not inexperienced.
As a junior he was winning in his 2WD from the outset. He's won his domestic national series twice (no lightweight competition). Won the regional Pirelli Shootout. Had the 2010 PSD been a competition he would have won it. He won the 2011 PWRC unbeaten and each event by unprecedented margins. He has been the man to beat in this years SWRC and has won about 80% of the stages he's contested.
His speed is equal to Tanak without the accidents, he has matched both Mikkelson and Ogier at times this year in machinery that is not equal and with far lesser resources.
At the end of the day you can only compete against whoever else comes out to play but to dismiss them all as lightweight is arrogant and disingenuous ... and actually factually incorrect.
As Marco stated, there is a clear 'winning mentality', what I call ' the ability to win at will'. The only other person in the WRC with that ability is Loeb.
Not that I would want to downgrade Paddon but please be objective. If You use numbers to support your stance use correct numbers. Fact is that so far he has won only PWRC which has a little meaning in terms of potential works drive. The rest has even lesser impact on WRC career, believe me. He must continue to prove himself. I strongly believe he can show he's as good as Mikkelsen, Tänak etc. but yet he defeated neither one of them.
I would also be careful with saying that he had much worse car than VW. VW boys were testing, using different setups, different dampers, geometry etc. even in one rally. Their main goal was to develop Sachs dampers and so was the tactics during events. I'm in fact far from believing they are already better than Reiger. Baumschlager's Fabia is probably the best You can get aside works cars and don't forget that Baumschlager and his team know the car as good as very little others. Baumschlager was involved in Fabia development from the very beginning and his engineers Walter Illmer and Josef Lank are both originally from Škoda Motorsport (Illmer was till this year car engineer of Kopecký in IRC). I would say the cars are close to each other in terms of performance.
Paddon probably needs to consider his co-driver options if he wants to reduce the possibility of a McRae/ Ringer situation when the older co-driver takes a break.
Who would be possible choices for Paddon to co-drive with ? Someone with a good quantity of WRC experience - Scott Martin ?
I noticed one rally in NZ that Paddon did with a different co-driver, Paddon was off the pace.
(Edit - I see the rally was 2009 Possum Bourne Rally with Nicole France - www.chrissport.co.nz) Paddon's pace should have improved significantly since then but some drivers' pace is a function of the confidence in the co-driver and the co-drivers confidence in the driver etc)
Absolutely objective Mirek. The simple point I'm making is that people with a winning culture will continue to win regardless of what you throw at them. Each progression in a career that demonstrates winning behaviour is entirely relevant. To a competitor like Paddon, the step up to WRC is just another challenge to overcome, another car to drive and another set of competitors to beat ... something else to win. To most others, the step up is insurmountable.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
Qatar M-sport deal is done !
M-Sport et le Qatar c
Good news for the WRC and M-Sport !
I think that Ostberg can be the number one driver and Novikov the second one.