2011 IRC: rallies, drivers, teams, plans?

on tarmac.

Maybe a "Rallye Terre de Corse" will reborne, but for the french gravel championship ;)

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Originally Posted by Tom206wrc

You didn't follow his races in 2010 then... :mark:

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to be honest, maybe youre right. i mostly had that really bad result from monte in memory and the crash at sardinia. at the other races between he really did not bad, also in scottland! so maybe he´ll get some really good results in 2011 then.

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Originally Posted by mousti

I spoke with some British marshalls at the Wales Rally GB and they said Mark Higgins would not be chosen by both Skoda UK and Peugeot UK by his age and also the experience in IRC. That's why Wilks and Mikkelsen got chosen. Cronin rejected a Proton seat because of busy calendar of his business duties.

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Keith is an accountant and business duties would not be the reason,there was a few factors im lead to believe which i will not get into here.

All five Škoda official cars in new livery live:

http://www.johnfoto.cz/monte/img00019.jpg
http://www.johnfoto.cz/monte/img00017.jpg
http://www.johnfoto.cz/monte/img00021.jpg
http://www.johnfoto.cz/monte/img00031.jpg
http://www.johnfoto.cz/monte/img00025.jpg

Complete gallery here: http://www.johnfoto.cz/monte/index.htm

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Originally Posted by Pinto

... which i will not get into here.

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So thank you very much for posting this :-/

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Originally Posted by Mirek

All five Škoda official cars in new livery live:
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Beautiful!

I like the one of Loix' most of all :D

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Originally Posted by wwbroe

I like the one of Loix' most of all :D

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Let us guess why... ;-) Does this livery mean, tha Skoda is't supporting Loix as much as it does in case of Mikkelsen or Vouilloz?

Mikkelsens and Vouilloz' entry is fully paid by the national Skoda importers, while Loix has a "real" sponsor in BFO. If Vouilloz had been sponsored by Playboy, we would see a lot less green and a lot more naked woman on the car :lol:

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Originally Posted by alleskids

Mikkelsens and Vouilloz' entry is fully paid by the national Skoda importers, while Loix has a "real" sponsor in BFO. If Vouilloz had been sponsored by Playboy, we would see a lot less green and a lot more naked woman on the car :lol:

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;-) was that a possibility?!? :-D
No, seriously, I meant: ist he support (amount of money) of Loix smaller compared to Vouilloz, so that Loix couldn't start without finding another, "real", sponsor or is the money from BFO "additional", including also some kind of his "salary"... The mess comes from the fact, that Mikkelsen was entered by the UK importer, as well as Wallenwein by the German one - but Loix and Vouilloz they both have Skoda factory team as their entrant. On the other side - Mikkelsen was training together with the Skoda Motorsport team, but Wallenwein didn't...