Silly Season 2015

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Originally Posted by N.O.T

I think it has to do more with the fact that the car manufacturers that are involved in rallying have as a target market the european nations to sell their cars...

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Interesting claim given that only Citroen has strong Eurocentrism in their operations. VW is worlds biggest manufacturer of cars, Hyundai is from Asia and Ford is synonym for global automotive company. Though, it can be argued that they may be present in WRC to promote their products in Europe but that would be interesting claim as European car market has been on decline, having only recently turned back to positive track. Then again, most of the WRC rounds are in Europe.

I think that N.O.T is basically right. The WRC activities of all those brands are in my opinion primarily focused on Europe. That's especially true in case of Hyundai. In my opinion the only reason why they chose WRC is that all their main rivals on European market are there - VAG, Ford and PSA. Battling or even beating them can rise the brand's prestige to a new heights and frankly the conservative western European market is a lot about prestige.

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Originally Posted by nafpaktos

I don't get you.you are fast you take a chance,it's that simple.i don't think non european drivers were fast but they didn't take chance,if I am wrong please name a few drivers.

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I think there may be a "lost in translation" thing going on here.

What I was saying is drivers like Tanak go fast from the outset, and retire from the top 4 on events because they overdrive or chuck it off the road. They get the attention.

Others who don't have the benefit of being bank rolled choose where to go fast when the car feels like it will be fast. They set a fastest stage time or two, then get to the finish if the car doesn't seem to be suiting their style.

I suppose that its easier to teach someone to slow down, then it is to speed up. :)

I'm sure that given the opportunity there are people quicker then Ogier out there (as impossible as that may seem). They may not even have heard of rallying. After all there are 5 billion people in the world and less then 1% of them with the funds required to even get into rallying in the first place. Just food for thought.

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Originally Posted by BDA Cosworth

I'm sure that given the opportunity there are people quicker then Ogier out there (as impossible as that may seem). They may not even have heard of rallying. After all there are 5 billion people in the world and less then 1% of them with the funds required to even get into rallying in the first place. Just food for thought.

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well you can expand this thought to every profession imaginable... it doesn't mean anything.

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Originally Posted by BDA Cosworth

I think there may be a "lost in translation" thing going on here.

What I was saying is drivers like Tanak go fast from the outset, and retire from the top 4 on events because they overdrive or chuck it off the road. They get the attention.

Others who don't have the benefit of being bank rolled choose where to go fast when the car feels like it will be fast. They set a fastest stage time or two, then get to the finish if the car doesn't seem to be suiting their style.

I suppose that its easier to teach someone to slow down, then it is to speed up. :)

I'm sure that given the opportunity there are people quicker then Ogier out there (as impossible as that may seem). They may not even have heard of rallying. After all there are 5 billion people in the world and less then 1% of them with the funds required to even get into rallying in the first place. Just food for thought.

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With a few fastest stage times the attention you can generate is quite small, unless you dominate with a clearly inferior car.

And a small update on the world population. We've already passed the seven billion mark ;)

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Originally Posted by N.O.T

stop posting lies...

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Well so far he's doing 1/1 at Monte. Perhaps you could bring your arrogance down a notch?

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Originally Posted by BDA Cosworth

I'm sure that given the opportunity there are people quicker then Ogier out there (as impossible as that may seem). They may not even have heard of rallying. After all there are 5 billion people in the world and less then 1% of them with the funds required to even get into rallying in the first place. Just food for thought.

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True but irrelevant to our conversation.also a boy from an isolated place in Africa could have been better than messi if he knew what football is,what's the meaning of these kind of thoughts

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Originally Posted by Alfa Fan

Well so far he's doing 1/1 at Monte. Perhaps you could bring your arrogance down a notch?

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perhaps you can find something else to bother with now that the ladyboy cup you are a fan of is over...

he talked about all tarmac rounds... Loeb and monte was known before. Check his lies about the driver transfers as well since you follow.

Loeb maybe found out that going round in circles wasn´t that fun it seemed?

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Originally Posted by Rallyper

Loeb maybe found out that going round in circles wasn´t that fun it seemed?

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he was always doing track events, he just wants to have fun in a rally car once again.