Agree with Luky, the sport lost a fast guy and someone who was known in the public to offer good tv action.... i think giving a chance to luky is a wise choice.Quote:
Originally Posted by itix
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Agree with Luky, the sport lost a fast guy and someone who was known in the public to offer good tv action.... i think giving a chance to luky is a wise choice.Quote:
Originally Posted by itix
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Originally Posted by itix
You are as crazy as the Russian. But I like Your way of thinking. Give this man a WR car, I'm afraid he might fall asleep at some stage in this year ER championship.Quote:
Originally Posted by itix
You are crazy. He will either crash as much as meeke, or he'll be slower than ostberg.Quote:
Originally Posted by itix
But perhaps i'm wrong and he turns out to be a fast and reliable driver. We will never know unless someone gives him the chance.
It's funny you should mention Novikov. I wondered what happened to him a few days ago so I checked. He has been gone completely from rally except for one masters show somewhere. Probably slaving away at some gulag these days to repay his sponsors.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sal the 2nd
Luky is a likable guy though. He does seem to be a bit more steady in recent years (although we said that about Meeke too). You never know until you try him out. I never said to give him a full year contract. Draft him in for three rallies and see how he does...
Doing some co-driving https://www.ewrc-results.com/coprofi...geniy-novikov/Quote:
Originally Posted by itix
Huh... Forgot to check the co-driver page. Well, thanks. Enough said about that now, let's not change the subject :)Quote:
Originally Posted by AnttiL
Suggesting Lukyanuk is nuts.
- Leadership above Budar kicked Meeke due to crashing and "danger", so now he should go to them and suggest "this guy from Russia who often has high-speed crashes and was recently in a deadly accident"
Ignoring this "minor" issue lets look on the performance side:
- Lukyanuk simply does not have experience on the rallies that are driven in WRC, that's quite important, despite his age just about all of them will be completely new to him. Even in this era of onboard-watching it's still a disadvantage
- The few times he did WRC rallies against WRC2 pilots (Sweden 2017, GB before), he was 5-6 in term of speed, clearly behind Tidemand, Sunninen, Camilli etc. Don't see how switching to WRC will suddenly make him faster than them.
Why not Meeke in a third MSport Fiesta WRC or even R5, rest of the season?
At least Malcolm could try him in Finland :) and Rally GB.
Oh yes, he wants to spend that money...
Btw, we don't even know whether Meeke is allowed to compete in WRC with any other manufacturer this season. Who knows, if the contract hasn't been terminated, Citroen can probably force him to "sit out" the rest of the season - IF they would want to do that in the first place.
For Finland for example, it would be a bit strange if the winner of 2016 edition won't be there in 2018 (nor last year's third...).
Didn't Meeke have it in his contract that he would drive all of the WRC events? If so, it's Citroën breaking up the contract and he's probably free to do whatever he wants.
Not that simple. There are - I think - various termination clauses in the contract, resulting in different sorts of verdicts (if you wanna call them that). Not giving Meeke a car to drive very likely isn't a breach of contract as such from the Citroen side.Quote:
Originally Posted by tommeke_B
I think Citroen managers have realised that he will inevitably kill someone very soon. They want to skip the negative publicity from it and prevent the complete closure of their WRC involvement.Quote:
Originally Posted by dimviii
Like they care. They care only about their paychecks. If PSA terminate program, Budar and all cream behind him will not get that much bonus anymore.
No: https://www.lemagsportauto.com/entre...en-loeb/32201/Quote:
Originally Posted by noel157
Technical note from the last rally of Meeke with Citroën: Two front splitter configuration for the Citroën C3 WRC in the Rally of Portugal 2018
https://wrcwings.wordpress.com/2018/...portugal-2018/
Yes true, he is in great form this year at World RX. Greatest so far. And he has big chance of taking the title. Sure he will not be that stupid to go in crappy car (you all know where this is going) and be 5th at the end with lots of troubles.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sub_Skoda
Sorry for Meeke's fans, but the evil here is not Citroen.
It's one thing not to to deliver, and completely different not to deliver and destroy so many cars.
Good rally driver should be able to finish more rallies, no matter what car he drives.
Only excuse could be if Citroen deliberately asked Meeke to overdrive the car, which is very unlikely.
And why the hell they don't "have the money" for testing, permanent 3rd car, for example signing Ogier (despite they wanted him) & Mikkelsen (who was desperate for getting a drive)...Quote:
Originally Posted by jparker
Loeb didn’t wanted Peugeot at the end of 2015, but he ended there…Quote:
Originally Posted by Sub_Skoda
With or without Seb (it could be the other one, like Clark suggested), one year to fix the car and reorganize the team is enough; in '19 Citroen must have a full scale top entry and show they still can win the series. Fingers crossed!
Valid points, but they have nothing to do with Meeke's ability to stay on the road.Quote:
Originally Posted by ESTR
Normal outcome would have been bad times (like Breen), nothing else.
I think so. Company like Citroen doesn't quit championships when loosing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rally Power
Because of bad market, budget restraints and not enough sponsorship money. Fairly easy calculations. When PSA find it economically viable to spend lots of money on their team, they will.Quote:
Originally Posted by ESTR
I don't think budget is the main problem. MSport made due with less. Sure more money wouldn't be bad, but better management, better developed car and a lead driver who doesn't crash two times every rally is really what was missing.
Unless Citroen start to spend proper money, plus sign Ogier for 2019, they dont have a chance to compete.
The other Teams have been doing things properly since 2017 and have better cars and the best driver's signed up.
Citroen - go hard or go home.
Given what looks from the outside tight finances for PSA I doubt they would stop him driving for a different manufacturer, and given the fairly bad publicity they have dealt themselves with the manner in which they appear to have fired Kris, stopping him driving for someone else would only create more. No mention of him on their Twitter account now either.Quote:
Originally Posted by Allez Andruet
Also, if Kris was contracted to drive the whole of the season, as Matton had publicly stated before, they wouldn't have a leg to stand on. If it went to court it could be argued that PSA were hindering Kris' future employment opportunities and that could get costly.
As for Kris getting an Msport drive this season, well, they have Ogier as number one driver and Evans, Sunninen both podiums in Portugal so I don't see either losing a drive at the minute. As they say, to finish first, first you must finish.
Nobody is going to sign Ogier for 2019 as it seems.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
Perfect, stay at M-Sport.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
Fourth car with his own sponsors?Quote:
Originally Posted by Norm75
If thats the case, i hope he wins 5 more championships with m-sport.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
Any team that doesn't try to sign ogier doesn't deserve to be champion.
why ?Quote:
Originally Posted by denkimi
Well some people clearly think that he is the only one that should win the titles. Others are there just for messing around... Any team and any driver deserve to be a champion, if it's by hard work or unluck by others. As long as they are there they have a chance.
Wilson had many chances in the past to get Meeke but a deal was never made; hard to believe it'd would be different this time. What about Toyota? In 2015 Makinen was interested in Meeke, but he refused (signing more 3 years with Citroen). Meeke on a Yaris would be amazing!Quote:
Originally Posted by AnttiL
Btw, who’s (if there’s any) Meeke manager?
Because he is the best rally driver in the world. Any team that seriously wants to become champion should try everything they can to hire him.Quote:
Originally Posted by N.O.T
lol... wake up kid.Quote:
Originally Posted by denkimi
Yes, You're right, last 10 years or so he is the best driver around, soon this might change, but probably not.Quote:
Originally Posted by denkimi
10 years ago was 2008... LOL.Quote:
Originally Posted by stefanvv
Ogiers first title was in 2013...
Did you skip math at school ?
I don't think so. I have university degree in Mathematics. I skipped only the first year when I was studying Physics and Mathematics.