[WRC] News & rumours (part II)

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8th January 2009, 22:12
alleskids

Peter van Merksteijn (senior) told during the Dakar rally that he really loved it, and he will do some rally raids with BMW in 2009. So he might do less than the planned 7 rallies. Peter junior will do the 7 rallies as planned
10th January 2009, 15:30
swordsman

Galli and Duval may still enter the Stobart team: http://www.maxattack.net
10th January 2009, 15:36
Tom206wrc

I hope both will do it !!! We need more good drivers in WRC09 !!!! :)
10th January 2009, 16:40
DonJippo

Quote:

Originally Posted by swordsman

Duval may still enter the Stobart team: http://www.maxattack.net

I thought Duval is waiting someone to pay him to drive not the other way around?
10th January 2009, 16:44
swordsman

Quote:

Originally Posted by DonJippo

I thought Duval is waiting someone to pay him to drive not the other way around?

For sure he's waiting for a sponsor to pay him, aren't everyone? But a team, nope - don't think so...
10th January 2009, 22:04
FabiaFan

What has happened to all the SX4s?

I was wondering...everybody's speculating who will drive last years Subarus, two years old Citroens, even 307s or Fabias, but there was no rumour at all anybody using the Suzukis???
10th January 2009, 22:42
urabus-denoS2000

I really hope at least one SX4 will stay in Hungary and it will be driven by a Hungarian driver ;)
10th January 2009, 22:42
Karbonyl

I think SX4 is still car "to be developed" than "to be rented"...
13th January 2009, 01:31
G249XDP

Any news on Deividas Jocius' plans for 2009?

I heard he wanted to use a Xsara WRC for Wales 08, does this mean he still owns T432?
13th January 2009, 11:57
Tom206wrc

http://www.autoklub.pl/22990,news.html

:confused:
13th January 2009, 12:08
tolis

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tom206wrc

http://www.autoklub.pl/22990,news.html

:confused:

I think it's an interview of Novikov(I don't know polish)!!! :( :( :(
13th January 2009, 12:15
pettersolberg29

Nice looking car whoever it is!
13th January 2009, 12:17
Tom206wrc

Quote:

Originally Posted by tolis11

I think it's an interview of Novikov(I don't know polish)!!! :( :( :(

I know that ;)
But I don't understand what is said neither... :(
13th January 2009, 12:21
PLuto

Nothing important. Only that he wont start in Russian championship.
13th January 2009, 12:24
Tom206wrc

Quote:

Originally Posted by PLuto

Nothing important. Only that he wont start in Russian championship.

OK...anyway who expected him to run russian championship on this forum ;)

What about czech championship in GrN(was the first rumour in same time as announcement of C4 in WRC for him) :confused:
13th January 2009, 12:28
PLuto

Yes, he will do Czech championship with Mitsubishi. I think it will be 5 rounds (out of 7).
13th January 2009, 12:30
PLuto

Old article about Novikov's start in Czech with bad english translation - http://translate.google.cz/translate...istory_state0=
13th January 2009, 12:31
Tom206wrc

Quote:

Originally Posted by PLuto

Yes, he will do Czech championship with Mitsubishi. I think it will be 5 rounds (out of 7).

As member of Citroën Junior Team I was hoping him in a 207 S2000 on czech championship :(
13th January 2009, 13:55
PLuto

He need to improve his skills on tarmac, not to fight for win.
13th January 2009, 18:25
alleskids

Van Merksteijn Motorosport has canceleld the order of a 3rd Focus WRC07 at M-Sport. WRcar are a dead end street, and Van Merksteijn does not fancy S2000, after they have droven WRCars. Eddie Chevaillier, the experience navigator, has great experience of both S200 and WRCar.
And besides that, Peter senior has been infected with the Dakar virus and will do a number of rally raids, probarly starting with the UAE Desert Challange or the Tunesie Rally to start with as preperation for Dakar 2010.
13th January 2009, 18:41
Daniel

Quote:

Originally Posted by alleskids

Van Merksteijn Motorosport has canceleld the order of a 3rd Focus WRC07 at M-Sport. WRcar are a dead end street, and Van Merksteijn does not fancy S2000, after they have droven WRCars. Eddie Chevaillier, the experience navigator, has great experience of both S200 and WRCar.
And besides that, Peter senior has been infected with the Dakar virus and will do a number of rally raids, probarly starting with the UAE Desert Challange or the Tunesie Rally to start with as preperation for Dakar 2010.

Oh no! If we lose the rich people from the WRC what will we be left with? Works drivers? :bigcry:
13th January 2009, 18:44
Roy

Quote:

Originally Posted by alleskids

Van Merksteijn Motorosport has canceleld the order of a 3rd Focus WRC07 at M-Sport. WRcar are a dead end street, and Van Merksteijn does not fancy S2000, after they have droven WRCars. Eddie Chevaillier, the experience navigator, has great experience of both S200 and WRCar.
And besides that, Peter senior has been infected with the Dakar virus and will do a number of rally raids, probarly starting with the UAE Desert Challange or the Tunesie Rally to start with as preperation for Dakar 2010.

Where do you find that info?
Van welke Nederlandstalige site? ;)
13th January 2009, 18:46
Roy

Quote:

Originally Posted by Daniel

Oh no! If we lose the rich people from the WRC what will we be left with? Works drivers? :bigcry:

Which work drivers? :\
13th January 2009, 18:57
Daniel

Quote:

Originally Posted by Roy

Which work drivers? :\

I think you're missing the point of my post :)
13th January 2009, 19:16
alleskids

Eddie said it on Turbo Magazine:
Beroepsnavigator Chevallier( VM ) is een week te vroeg terug uit Argentinie. Het liep nochtans lekker tot op de 2e dag hij een fout maakte waardoor 10 minuten verloren gingen en men terugviel naar plaats 13.. Ook Tina deed diezelfde fout. En dan was er natuurlijk de brand ...op 2 minuten stond was alles over ..Eddy heeft aleen nog zijn zonnebril kunnen redden .. Maar goed er komt een vervolg. Dubai, Tunesie , Quatar alles lijkt een optie en Dakar 2010 is een zekerheid. Ondertussen werd de bestelling van de 3e Ford Focus Wrc geanuleerd bij M Sport. Het Wrc gebeuren is zo goed als dood aldus Eddy die wel in Noorwegen naast Merksteyn JR plaatsneemt. Het IRC ja maar een Super 2000 heeft niet zo een gevoel als een Wrc , en hij kan het weten ! Eddy rijd nog met Tsjoen in Belgie en Frankrijk en zelf af en toe met zijn Enduro 450.( Geert Grooten)
13th January 2009, 19:17
alleskids

Who are the guys that pay the works drivers salary? Is it the rich people hiring ex works cars ?
13th January 2009, 19:24
Roy

Quote:

Originally Posted by Daniel

I think you're missing the point of my post :)

I think I did. But now? No
13th January 2009, 20:01
swordsman

Quote:

Originally Posted by alleskids

Eddie said it on Turbo Magazine:
Beroepsnavigator Chevallier( VM ) is een week te vroeg terug uit Argentinie. Het liep nochtans lekker tot op de 2e dag hij een fout maakte waardoor 10 minuten verloren gingen en men terugviel naar plaats 13.. Ook Tina deed diezelfde fout. En dan was er natuurlijk de brand ...op 2 minuten stond was alles over ..Eddy heeft aleen nog zijn zonnebril kunnen redden .. Maar goed er komt een vervolg. Dubai, Tunesie , Quatar alles lijkt een optie en Dakar 2010 is een zekerheid. Ondertussen werd de bestelling van de 3e Ford Focus Wrc geanuleerd bij M Sport. Het Wrc gebeuren is zo goed als dood aldus Eddy die wel in Noorwegen naast Merksteyn JR plaatsneemt. Het IRC ja maar een Super 2000 heeft niet zo een gevoel als een Wrc , en hij kan het weten ! Eddy rijd nog met Tsjoen in Belgie en Frankrijk en zelf af en toe met zijn Enduro 450.( Geert Grooten)

Can anyone make a resume of this in English? Google's translation really sucks - I tried it :)
13th January 2009, 20:03
Daniel

Quote:

Originally Posted by alleskids

Who are the guys that pay the works drivers salary? Is it the rich people hiring ex works cars ?

Perhaps these days but there was a point in the WRC's history when the teams were full of paid drivers and some teams like Mitsubishi didn't even need to bother with running privateers to fund the driving of Tommi. But back then the WRC was a product you could pour millions into
13th January 2009, 20:16
DonJippo

Quote:

Originally Posted by Daniel

Perhaps these days but there was a point in the WRC's history when the teams were full of paid drivers and some teams like Mitsubishi didn't even need to bother with running privateers to fund the driving of Tommi.

No they had Freddy Loix with Marlboro money to fund Tommi's driving.
13th January 2009, 20:17
Roy

Quote:

Originally Posted by alleskids

Van Merksteijn Motorosport has canceleld the order of a 3rd Focus WRC07 at M-Sport. WRcar are a dead end street, and Van Merksteijn does not fancy S2000, after they have droven WRCars. Eddie Chevaillier, the experience navigator, has great experience of both S200 and WRCar.
And besides that, Peter senior has been infected with the Dakar virus and will do a number of rally raids, probarly starting with the UAE Desert Challange or the Tunesie Rally to start with as preperation for Dakar 2010.

Quote:

Originally Posted by alleskids

Eddie said it on Turbo Magazine:
Beroepsnavigator Chevallier( VM ) is een week te vroeg terug uit Argentinie. Het liep nochtans lekker tot op de 2e dag hij een fout maakte waardoor 10 minuten verloren gingen en men terugviel naar plaats 13.. Ook Tina deed diezelfde fout. En dan was er natuurlijk de brand ...op 2 minuten stond was alles over ..Eddy heeft aleen nog zijn zonnebril kunnen redden .. Maar goed er komt een vervolg. Dubai, Tunesie , Quatar alles lijkt een optie en Dakar 2010 is een zekerheid. Ondertussen werd de bestelling van de 3e Ford Focus Wrc geanuleerd bij M Sport. Het Wrc gebeuren is zo goed als dood aldus Eddy die wel in Noorwegen naast Merksteyn JR plaatsneemt. Het IRC ja maar een Super 2000 heeft niet zo een gevoel als een Wrc , en hij kan het weten ! Eddy rijd nog met Tsjoen in Belgie en Frankrijk en zelf af en toe met zijn Enduro 450.( Geert Grooten)

This is the same.
13th January 2009, 20:17
Daniel

Quote:

Originally Posted by DonJippo

No they had Freddy Loix with Marlboro money to fund Tommi's driving.

OK true :) But for instance Peugeot ran their 206's for a fair while and in some rallies had 4 cars all with top drivers in them and all paid :)
13th January 2009, 21:03
alleskids

Something about their holiday ending a bit too early, that the BMW X3CC burnt very fast, he only could save his sunglasses. Van Merksteijn is been hooked by the rally raids, and is looking at the options, which rally raid to do. They cancelled the 3rd Focuys WRC, IRC i snot an option, because the S2000 does not satisfy the need for speed and thrill. Chevailier knows the difference because he has done rallies in a S2000 and WRCar.
13th January 2009, 21:08
swordsman

Quote:

Originally Posted by alleskids

Something about their holiday ending a bit too early, that the BMW X3CC burnt very fast, he only could save his sunglasses. Van Merksteijn is been hooked by the rally raids, and is looking at the options, which rally raid to do. They cancelled the 3rd Focuys WRC, IRC i snot an option, because the S2000 does not satisfy the need for speed and thrill. Chevailier knows the difference because he has done rallies in a S2000 and WRCar.

Thanks man! :)
13th January 2009, 21:48
Tom206wrc

Quote:

Originally Posted by alleskids

Something about their holiday ending a bit too early, that the BMW X3CC burnt very fast, he only could save his sunglasses. Van Merksteijn is been hooked by the rally raids, and is looking at the options, which rally raid to do. They cancelled the 3rd Focuys WRC, IRC i snot an option, because the S2000 does not satisfy the need for speed and thrill. Chevailier knows the difference because he has done rallies in a S2000 and WRCar.

Therefore you can have fun running S2000 on IRC !!!! :s
13th January 2009, 22:02
Mirek

S2000 is not a car for gentleman driver. It has no turbo and without agressive styl, it's slow...
13th January 2009, 23:08
PLuto

If you want to race with S2000, you must be a good driver. With WRC can be fast everybody...
13th January 2009, 23:47
Sulland

Quote:

Originally Posted by PLuto

If you want to race with S2000, you must be a good driver. With WRC can be fast everybody...

Hear hear !

Lets get Petter and Bosse in IRC this year !
14th January 2009, 05:59
RS

Quote:

Originally Posted by PLuto

If you want to race with S2000, you must be a good driver. With WRC can be fast everybody...

Yes, that is the real reason why they don't want to drive an S2000. I can imagine a well driven S2000 would be faster than them in their Focus WRCs.

Tirabassi seemed slower in IRC than when he drove for Subaru on Catalunya and Corsica last year too.
14th January 2009, 06:28
Helstar

Quote:

Originally Posted by DonJippo

No they had Freddy Loix with Marlboro money to fund Tommi's driving.

Pwned ^^

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