Hello from Antony Warmbold

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Originally Posted by tfp

I wonder what happened with Petter and M sport?
VW would be ideal for Petter to get a manu drive, they want flogging if they dont take him on!

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Well Petter will be well into his autumn years by 2013

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Originally Posted by Daniel

Well Petter will be well into his autumn years by 2013

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Then it would make more sence putting Carlos Sainz in the VW Polo R WRCar2013. Both are world champions, both have still good marketing value, Sainz is still fit and rally ready thanks to the Dakar effort. But Sainz is already bedded in the VW team.

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Originally Posted by alleskids

Then it would make more sence putting Carlos Sainz in the VW Polo R WRCar2013. Both are world champions, both have still good marketing value, Sainz is still fit and rally ready thanks to the Dakar effort. But Sainz is already bedded in the VW team.

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Please don't get my hopes up :D

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Originally Posted by Daniel

Well Petter will be well into his autumn years by 2013

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I hope not, the sport will take a massive step backwards when he leaves.

lol

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Originally Posted by alleskids

Then it would make more sence putting Carlos Sainz in the VW Polo R WRCar2013. Both are world champions, both have still good marketing value, Sainz is still fit and rally ready thanks to the Dakar effort. But Sainz is already bedded in the VW team.

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And Sainz will be what, 51 in 2013? Are you serious?

Sainz is most likely looking at managing the team more than driving. Let's not forget VW will have a lot of budget. It's a good opportunity for anyone to keep a foot in there. Also remember his son is coming around... I would not be surprised to see him peeking his nose in the workshop...then who knows.

Something from Auto Hebdo interview of Kris Nissen was a bit strange though. They said they were first going to develop a competitive car, then look for drivers. I hope that is not true because it' the wrong way around. That is same mistake that toyota Formula 1 did. Huge budget, big everything, but no driver to build a car around from the beginning. You need to do like ferrari and schumacher. Put the money where the mouth is and hire a good driver, then build a car for him and around him, from zero. Or like peugeot and gronholm, same thing. They took him from the very start and developped the car for him. You don't need to have a champion, just a good nose to find the right guy who will develop together with the car.

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Originally Posted by Antony Warmbold

Put the money where the mouth is and hire a good driver, then build a car for him and around him, from zero. Or like peugeot and gronholm, same thing. They took him from the very start and developped the car for him. You don't need to have a champion, just a good nose to find the right guy who will develop together with the car.

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Agree same like Audi did with Mikkola too, if it would be up to me I would pick Ketomaa, he can drive but even more important, excellent test driver and he understand about how cars should be too. Good driver does not automaticly mean good developer, a good example is Auriol.

The fact that VW advertise their budget too much can end in tears....i can see that driver choice would end up into the battle of the managers rather than picking the correct ones....Ketamaa is an excellent choice if he pays to drive...and he can do the development also like pykalisto did for peugeot.

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Originally Posted by N.O.T

Ketamaa is an excellent choice if he pays to drive...and he can do the development also like pykalisto did for peugeot.

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Pykälistö did work for Citroen, not Peugeot.
For Peugeot was involved, Grönholm, Panizzi, at beginning also Auriol but he got the boot and was replaced with Aghini.