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Give the kid a break.
He has high hopes, that's sure. Like many of you I also thing he will never be champion material, but he gaves himself 5 year to starting winning rallies. So far he is not even at the halway point so there is still time for him to improve and it's too ealiy to make a definite judgement.
Anyway, it's not like he's taking another driver seat, so who care if he enjoys himself and spend dad's money?
Can somebody somehow compare Mattew's career path with some other drivers so we can all see if it's that bad. Usualy other drivers at the same stage of career are not under the spotlight, but did they do better then Mattew? What are the numbers saying?
Dear SimmiQuote:
Originally Posted by Simmi
You seem to be a blind one in Matthew Wilson's posts. Always defendindg the guy without arguments, and i still don't know if in 2006 you were not one of the ones who called me jealeous whem i put doubts on Wilson skills.
This thread started with the words from a british Rally driver: Colin Mcrae. Their words are not very different from mine and from the words of majority of us here on this forum.
The articles at that time (2006) shown what the press was writing about Matthew Wilson and his future.
About media attention, try to search because i don't need to search nothing, i read that many months ago, and we discuss that here many months ago. Can't understand why you have doubts about what press wrote.
About examples similar to Wilson i only know one: Anthony Warmbold.
Oh come on JAM, your were one of the guys saying Wilson was praised too much in media, now back your own words up with some evidence of it. :)
Or were you talking out of your ass? ;)
This is not a insult on you WRCfan, just wanted to answer these comments!Quote:
Originally Posted by WRCfan
The simple fact of the matter is
a: he is living his dream, so why shouldnt he?
Ofcourse, he do what he wants. Its just embarrasing!
b: if daddy or whoever is going to pay for him then that is their business.
No idea, but im sure there is more people paying for this, who dont give a **** if its slowson or not behind the wheel.
c: MOST of US could not run any better so until we can we should stop sh!tting on him as hard as many are. (yes it is a discusison forum but this is really a nice case of bashing).
thats a sad comment.
First I wanna say that many from this forum would probably be as fast as him if they got same experience as he got, no doubt, or maybe faster. Since so many out there with less experience and suckier car is already faster then him.
Second I wanna inform you that most of us are spectator following the WRC, I think if we are not allowed to comment someones driving without showing that we are better then its about time we close this forum or change it to a "dont say anything bad if you cant do it better"forum.
d: It is another WRC car to watch on the stages, or watch leave the road...why are we whinging?
Im pretty sure there would be another driver, another team or even stobbart themselves with another driver even if slowson wasnt there!
And it would be good getting of dangerous slow drivers blocking the road from other fast drivers. (that was a joke)
e: I know EVERYONE on this forum would give their right arm to be in Matt's position
Maybe, and im sure they would do better even with only a left arm.
Did you read the link posted on the page before? Do you think that i will spend time searching? You should think that my time is for this. Compare the 5 years plan with the same plan fro Solberg Martin and Loeb... they delivery something on the first year: Martin and Loeb delivered speed.Quote:
Originally Posted by janneppi
I have the same speach that had 1 year ago. Didn't change nothing, and that makes me happy, because before was a prediction, now is a confirmation of the facts.
Put Mark Higgins on Wilson's place and see ALL the Stobart Focus running fast. People is not accpeting that this is Anthony Warmbold part II...
I'm sorry but are you taking the piss? How many gentlemen drivers do you know of that are 19yrs old? Maybe if he was 40yrs old and still on the same pace, then yes!Quote:
Originally Posted by Tom206wrc
If you mean the Rally World Magazine link, that was very far from a praise, Matthew gave honest answers to questions put to him, you really can't blame British media having an interest on him, there weren many Brits around last year.Quote:
Originally Posted by JAM
But no, i won't expect you to back up your words.
You seem to be so proud that you predicted a driver would be bad JAM. Well done you dont need to keep talking about what you said a year ago, as there is not very much to discuss about Matt anymore in terms of his ability. We all know how good he is and so I fail to see why I am 'a blind one'. I have never pretended he is something he is not I have just campaigned for him to be treated with a modicum of respect by people sitting in front of their computers. I am not going to search for fantastical press reports that I dont beleive even exist so if you wont back up your claims then we will just agree to disagree.
That is the center of the question and that is why we have these discussions. Of course we go to pick up a lot of things around.Quote:
Originally Posted by Simmi
Can anybody explain the 5th years plan of Ford with Mikko and Petter?
Malcom Wilson about the targets of his son.
"The targets are to try and finish all the rallies and get the experience. On the odd stage on certain events we see the performance is there on some of the splits, so I am not bothered. We have a five-year plan like we have done with Mikko and like we did with Petter too. So there are no specific results orientated targets, it is more a case of building up that invaluable experience, which you need now to be a top driver."
http://www.crash.net/feature_view~cid~4~id~10968.htm
I think the Subaru money got in the way of their plan for Petter.
What do you believe he will do in Argentina ??? :p :
Driver points finish ??? ;)
NaaaQuote:
Originally Posted by Tom206wrc
... which came after Wilson continued to refuse given Petter a contract. So Subaru snatched he two hot youngsters of that time, Petter Solberg and privateer Corolla driver Markko Martin.Quote:
Originally Posted by Simmi
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Originally Posted by alleskids
was Martin not also 'snatched' from Ford/MSport?
well if u look at it 13 wrc cars giveing retirments i would say a points finish is possible because of the limited amount of wrcs in the rally
He didnt refuse a contract he just wasnt happy about giving the type of contract that Petter wanted. They matched Prodrive money wise according to what it says in Rallycourse 2001. I dont think you can really point the finger at Malcolm as I firmly believe Petter would not have made it if Wilson hadn't taken a massive chance on him.Quote:
Originally Posted by alleskids
Pitty the electrical problems Matt had in Argentina :mark: