[WRC] News & rumours (part II)

Santander doesn't have the money to be throiwng around given it's massive exposure to the property market (quite aside from ploughing so much cash to Alonso and Ferrari).

I doubt Sordo would sell enough cars to justify Citroen giving him more money if Ford came up with a decent offer. I don't doubt he sells cars but he's no Sainz in terms of marketability.

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Originally Posted by pino makinen

It’s been said that Botín, Banco Santander’s president, got personally interested in Dani’s future. That’s a new and very big Spanish sponsor.

I am evil Homer, Spain is a big market for Citröen and Dani helps to sell cars as well as Carlos Sainz did. Though they might be the actual top seller here, they might not want to lose, for example, 5000 cars/year, which is a big amount of money.

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It would be good if true, next year when they only have to pay 1 F1 drivers salary, they should have easily the cash to sponsor 1 rallydriver.

Banco Santander wouldn't be a "new" sponsor, they've been supporting Dani since 2006. In this case they would just give the last push... but rumours are rumours.

daddy pays for little son to get some exposure....

http://www.wrc.com/news/wilson-confi...011/?fid=13556

don't worry little slowboy if sobart cannot help daddy will take care of everything wasting some more money from the development to keep the kid happy.

http://wrc.com/news/volkswagen-more%...try/?fid=13558

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Originally Posted by Motorsportfun

Can anyone confirm that MINI will begin testing in Spain (near Huelva, Andalucia) at the end of September or early in October?

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The mini should have had its first test in the sweet lamb complex in wales this week but the engine is not yet in the car ,so hopefully it will be ready to go in Spain next month.

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Originally Posted by Mise

http://wrc.com/news/volkswagen-more%...try/?fid=13558

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sounds good! take a Fabia S2000 develop it into a WRC 1600, put the shell of a Sciroco on, and Voila! Shouldnt be that expensive

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Originally Posted by jonas_mcrae

sounds good! take a Fabia S2000 develop it into a WRC 1600, put the shell of a Sciroco on, and Voila! Shouldnt be that expensive

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and get excluded by the FIA for homologation issues....

VW might share the same engine as Skoda, but thats about it. I'm not sure if VW can be a successful WRC team, but maybe I've drank some anti VW koolaid. The Polo S1600 wasn't all that successful and same with the Golf IV kit car.

Toyota would likely be better than VW, as they do rally properly, so would Renault.

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Originally Posted by rallyfan2003

I'm not sure if VW can be a successful WRC team, but maybe I've drank some anti VW koolaid. The Polo S1600 wasn't all that successful and same with the Golf IV kit car.

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Recources, organized, successful (Dakar), ambitious. I'd say they're perfect for (future) WRC. Those Polo and Golf efforts were never fully works supported and were actually decent cars in there respective classes.

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Originally Posted by rallyfan2003

Toyota would likely be better than VW, as they do rally properly, so would Renault.

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If VW joins, likely there's more chance that Toyota will too, or vice versa.