Sad, because Kopecky at MC = some good points!Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
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Sad, because Kopecky at MC = some good points!Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
I think that they consider Monte Carlo as too risky event. They lost it way too many times when things seemed to be on the way to victory. Also if they skip it they can take some time off before the season start.
Maybe they'll do more events in the 2nd half of the season, with the new car.
WRC2 Pro at MC
Greensmith / Edmondson
Bonato / Boulloud
I have to apologize and ask who the second drivers of both teams areQuote:
Originally Posted by Andre Oliveira
co-drivers :)Quote:
Originally Posted by AnttiL
That explains :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Essaj
BREAKING NEWS!!
Manuel Villa - Daniele Michi at the start of wrc2. the program will start from Monte Carlo with Škoda Fabia R5
I think he will do only Monte ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Bartolbia84
Gryazin starting a nine round WRC2 program from Sweden. Great news!
Fast driver, glad to see him progress.Quote:
Originally Posted by AnttiL
His lack of WRC rallies experience could be important.
Logical step up...Quote:
Originally Posted by AnttiL
I dont think so.Quote:
Originally Posted by Andre Oliveira
Am I mistaken for understanding the WRC2 Pro rules? Again. I thought two cars needed to be entered for each team/manufacturer? Guessing I'm wrong, seeing as it looks like Greensmith and Bonato are only announced. Or are we just waiting on confirmation of Camilli and Lefebvre to join them?
No, only one per rally is enough, but throughout the season 8(?) rallies for two cars in total.Quote:
Originally Posted by dodge33cymru
Rightio.Quote:
Originally Posted by AnttiL
Now I'm even more confused.
Thanks
Yeah, it's not so difficult to be at the top of WRC2. Kubica was world champion in his first season and this year Kajetanowicz was faster than most WRC2 private regulars despite having zero experience in WRC rallies.Quote:
Originally Posted by PLuto
So good luck to Gryazin, he has the required skills!
(although we can't forget that he is a car crasher)
Well, he is doing better now, only one crash this year (https://www.ewrc-results.com/profile...kolay-gryazin/) is ok, I think, considering how many rallies he had.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jarek Z
Yes, you need to consider "crash per stage km" ratio. Gryazin did this year over 9k stage kms (rallies and tests combined) so his start/finish ratio looks really good. You can't compare number of his crashes with someone who drove some national champs with limited tests, so some 1/10 of kms he did.Quote:
Originally Posted by electroliquid
Yes, you are right. Gryazin has improved a lot this year. Good luck to him in his further career!
Johan Kristoffersson in Polo R5 won todays Romhjulsrally in Norway. 1 min 11 sec ahead of F T Larsen Fiesta R5.
Kristoffersson won all stages.
This information is suitable more for national championship thread ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Rallyper
My personal opinion.Quote:
Originally Posted by PLuto
How a multiple FIA world champion does in a preparation event is very relevant to this thread given Johan is expected to do a full WRC2 season in 2019.
He will be pretty much busy driving TCR golf in WTCR for a whole season. I think he will not have a time for a rallying though.Quote:
Originally Posted by KiwiWRCfan
Yep. It'd be great if he manage to do both!
I agree with Pluto. Otherwise we can spam this thread with dozens of posts about how WRC2 drivers perform on national level. You know many of them do compete in more championships in the same time...Quote:
Originally Posted by KiwiWRCfan
I don´t know why you´re so anti Swede, guys? Kristoffersson will do WRC2 in Sweden and he now started his testing and driving before that event. Why not inform about his progress here?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
And Mirek, you yourself mentioning guys I´never heard of in this thread...
But Kristoffersson as Kiwi WRC fan says is multiple World Champion. He belongs in this thread as long as he will do WRC2 events.
Come on, nobody is anti-Sweed. This is completely ridiculous from You.
It's absolutely normal to put names of WRC2 drivers here (including Kristoffersson) but it's stupid to post results from their national outings here. You can read them in national threads where they belong and not spam WRC threads with them. Do I post every national result of Kopecký in WRC threads? Of course not. Why should I do that? So why to do that with Kristoffersson especially when Romjulsrally had so weak entry list that the result is completely meaningless in regards to Swedish rally?
Well, it´s your opinion.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
Not mine.
Kristoffersson is of interest for other people than you. I´m NOT spamming this thread as long as he´s contender of WRC2. So I´ll go on posting things interesting for WRC2 here. If I´ll find something that is.
PS I saw you liked Dimviii´s post of Kristoffersson testing his Polo some pages back...DS
You don't seem to comprehend the meaning of a written text. Enough from my side.
Come on guys, enough of that - Kristofferson (or any driver competing in WRC2 and elsewhere) is a grey area but no-one here is anti-Swede! Let's hope he confirms a WRC2 campaign after Sweden and has a proper go at it.
I sure understand what you´ve written. Even between the lines.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
But I´ll repeat: Kristoffersson preparing for WRC2 event is not spam in this thread. No matter what assements over results, or methods of preparing has been done from other forumers.
Enough from my side as well.
It is a spam for this thread ;) And not only Kristoffersson, but also other similar posts, if there will be any (results of Kopecky from czech championship, results of Gryazin from any of his many starts everywhere etc).Quote:
Originally Posted by Rallyper
The volume of comments on this forum never fullfils the description of spam. I think this debate about allowing talking about possible WRC2 competitors in this thread or should be on some other thread works perfectly as a spam filter for the next weeks as people find better things to do.
Some more spam ;) : besides the WRX, this year Kristoffersson also run (and won) the Scandinavian touring cars series, on a Golf TCR. Maybe a full WTCR season won’t be enough for him! It’d be really great for the WRC2 to have him in some events after Sweden.
Btw, happy new year for all!
A double WRX Champion driving the newest model of R5 car, and who plans to enter a WRC2 event in the car next month, has to be of interest.
JK is not just some unknown gentleman driver.
People arguing against this result info are doing far more spamming. And I bet if he'd crashed on that rally they wouldnt mind it being mentioned...
+10Quote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
But the important question here is was he using Pirellis? I'm afraid that Pirelli vs Michelin game will be a deciding factor also this year in Sweden :/
Several yound Belgian drivers are looking to join WRC2:
Sebastien Bedoret (Skoda Belgium driver) is looking to start in Corsica, Germany and Catalunya in addition to his Belgian program.
Grégoire Munster will start in Monte Carlo and possibly in Sweden and Corsica with a Fabia R5
Guillaume De Mevius (Belgian national RACB driver) will start in Monte Carlo and has plans for a bigger WRC2 campaign.