[WRC] News & rumours (part II)

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Originally Posted by MJW

so you have read the Autosport article as well.
Citroen sales up 67% in Norway since PS been a Citroen driver, and Citroen Norway chief very keen.

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It may have more to do with general economical revival after the crisis than with PSWRT but anyway good for Petter.

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Originally Posted by 'Mirek Fric [Cze

]It may have more to do with general economical revival after the crisis than with PSWRT but anyway good for Petter.

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i dont know about that, we in norway hasen't got the economic crisis so hard as rest of europe. petter is nr 1 in marketing of cars in norway. no'one is even close. when he won in 2004, subaru sold over 40% more cars in norway as in 2003, and that year was much better than 2002. so i belive it is petters "fault" that citroen in norway sell more cars. so every brand that want to sell cars in norway want a petter to be theire face here.

When Petter won in 2003 you mean? ;)

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Originally Posted by noel157

Was it in the magazine? I don't get it so I guess I saw it somewhere online.
Let's just hope he get's the car.

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Citroen Norway's Oystein Johansen "...we are 100 percent committed for next year."

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Originally Posted by bt52b

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Citroen Norway's Oystein Johansen "...we are 100 percent committed for next year."

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I'm sure that Mad Croc too will be involved. Solberg made Mad Croc a dream come true: sell the cans to IKEA! They didn't reach the goal in 10 years, Solberg did in a couple of months!!! :D

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Originally Posted by bt52b

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Citroen Norway's Oystein Johansen "...we are 100 percent committed for next year."

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Thanks, good to see that Petter has the right people behind him.

I'm wondering with the cars starting from a clean sheet of paper, would a "customer" such as Petter be subject to the same ECU mapping issues in the DS3 as the C4, i.e. equal cars but equal to a certain point

difficult to say... the thing for 2011 is that all the cars is the same evolution.. same spec.. If Citröen and Ford decides to give the factory boys some extra electronic boost.. no one can stop them.. really..
then they have to make ECU's to all the cars.. Give them to FiA, and then Fia gives em sealed to the cars...

At first most new cars will be equal, but then the development will go first to the 'works' drivers.
M-Sport talks of having up to 10 Fiesta WRC ready, Citroën 4 DS3 but there is demand for more , so lets see what happens

Citroen will only have 4 DS3 WRCars, so Petter has to wait a long time. His other option is Ford.
1 Loeb 2 Ogier - Total team
3 Sordo 4 Raikkonen - Red Bull team

Who will have the first ten Fiesta WRcars?
1 Hirvonen 2 Latvalla - BP team
3 Wilson jr - Stobart Ford
4 Al Qassimi - Abu Dhabi team (or has the sponsor deal expired?)
5 Villagra - Munchi's ford
6 Block - Monster Ford
7 ?
8 ?
9 ?
10 ?

Prodrive wil only do a limited number of rallies to devellop the car, but still sell it to a number of privateers, one of them being Adapt (either for Ostberg or a custumer)?