So was I, I thought they were one of the parties behind his deal. Therefore I was expecting a Vodafone liveried Subaru - however not, a disappointing livery.Quote:
Originally Posted by JFL
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So was I, I thought they were one of the parties behind his deal. Therefore I was expecting a Vodafone liveried Subaru - however not, a disappointing livery.Quote:
Originally Posted by JFL
Well maybe this time Prodrive decided to concentrate to make the car better rather than designing a fancy livery...one can always hope...Quote:
Originally Posted by WRC1
What did he deserve then?? This??Quote:
Originally Posted by WRC1
http://90right.files.wordpress.com/2...m-focus-07.jpg
The livery is supossed to show the sponsors. In this case, just one: Turismo de Portugal. And t does it perfectly.
Yeah, the car is not pretty, they could do better. I also thought that Vodafone would be the sponser, was suposed to be...
Let's hope that Markus will make a good rally, he will test the car during three days before the rally (1 in GB and 2 in Spain)...
One in GB was yesterday two in Spain scheduled for next week I believe.Quote:
Originally Posted by RallyPT
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Originally Posted by JRodrigues
:up:
Well said.
New Zealand Rally will not be held this year and is set to return early next year.
The form, how the sponsor is showed, is also very important. It should be in "turismo de Portugal's" interest to make sure that their brand is exposed in a nice way that is attractive for the audiance. A statement like that indicates that you don't know much about marketing and advertising, but maybe you don't care about it either...Quote:
Originally Posted by JRodrigues
Actually, I do care, since I've made some liveries for rallying cars.Quote:
Originally Posted by J.Lindstroem
Then i don't understand what you mean with stating that the liverys only function is to show the sponsors. Is it not important how the sponsors is showed also? As it is now, no one will notice the brand...Quote:
Originally Posted by JRodrigues
Probably "Turismo the portugal" or whatever gets what they pay for.... Small amount of money , small sticker... big amount of money... big sticker.
Myselt i think this Pordrive who wants Markus to go down there to whoop Petters ass....
The smaller the stickers, often people look more carefully what i says...Told to me by a guy who decorated our car....
Rally NZ was never part of the WRC for 2009.Quote:
Originally Posted by tmx
What you may have heard was that the organisers were planing an event this year using the name Rally NZ. It was for local entrants (and any internationals wanting to enter), just to keep the tradition of the event alive for this non-championship year.
The organisers have decided not to go ahead with the event, as it would put even more financial pressure on those already doing the national championship.
Is there an online version of this magazine ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Motorsportfun
And is there some truth in this project, or is it a dream from the Dacia team ?
Last time with the Logan, they were told by Renault that doing rally in a car in this price segment would be sending the wrong signals. Hopefully Renault see the benefit this time. They do F1 and Dacia could do Rally !
I don´t care about collors and the livery, I´l hope it is a good car for a top driver. In blue it was almost always a sh!t car. :dozey:
That´s my man! I remember that couple of years ago my favorite livery in Estonian championship was one white Subaru without any advertising stickers. :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by Brother John
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Originally Posted by Sulland
There is a preview of the print edition of the magazine (here you have our magazines previews http://www.sportautomoto.it/ ), but it was closed as a consequence of the world economic downturn IMO. :( Anyway, now there is SportAuto "alive".
For what concern the project, I know there were some discussions about it, but this economic dt probably slowed down all the things. If you think, Renault cut the budget also for F.1 and ING is pulling out from the end of this year... is a difficult situation for all the Renault group (well, for all the European manufacturers! :p :) .
As Raikkonen says: "Wait and see" :p :
Does anybody know what is all about?
http://www.rallye-magazin.de/r/wm/d/...ren/index.html
They say Petter wants mechanical differentials because Xsara is faster with them but that there are no mechanical diffs prepared for Xsara but for C4 only...
In an interview Petter himself said that Loeb told him the mechanical diff is faster. Sounds about right, they would be reluctant to supply them to him anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by 'Mirek Fric [Cze
Conclusion: Active differentials => lot of wasted money.Quote:
Originally Posted by tmx
According to another source Citroen said to Petter that they have only c4 diffs.But they are trying to find a solution together....(I read it somewhere on tha Net but I don't remember the site.........)
Somebody is scared to s... that with passive diffs P..Solberg could make Xsara 2001 faster than new C4 2009..
Who that would be and why would they be scared of that?Quote:
Originally Posted by Barreis
Perhaps because Petter was faster that Loeb on the gravel in Cyprus...?Quote:
Originally Posted by DonJippo
Mr. Quesnel. Because Xsara is 2001 and new C4 is probablly 2009..Quote:
Originally Posted by DonJippo
C4 was designed in 2004/5
True but Seb had no real reason to push after Friday so I doubt Citroen is scared because of that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Iskald
But why would Mr. Quesnel be scared, Petter is not driving for manu points so what's the point?Quote:
Originally Posted by Barreis
Markko Martin will probarly switch to rally raids. At this moment he is testing a BMW X3CC of X-Raid in the UAE Desert Challange. The car of Leonid Novitsky was flow to the rally, but Novitsky had to cansel his rally. If X-Raid and Martin are borth satisfied, Martin will do rally raids with the team. Hopefully Martin will find his spirit and speed again in the open rally raid roads.
Last year Märtin did some demonstration runs with Nissan Navarra in one of off road events in Estonia. So, he has already some idea what are these cars all about:-)
Bluuford, do you know what team did Markko test for that time? Was it an Overdrive Nissan? Do you have any photos from that test?Quote:
Originally Posted by bluuford
Thanks in advance!
http://static.kalev.ee/apps/kalev_me...4_IMG_3479.JPGQuote:
Originally Posted by White Sauron
http://www.kalev.ee/est/?news=954719...laperjaht-2008
It was just a demonstration runs and some promotional runs and then some more testing runs (to better get know about the car). Here is one more picture:
http://pilt.delfi.ee/en/show_original/4304369/
But no one says which team was running the car. They are just saying that.. ".. Paris-Dakar's NISSAN Navara .."
That looks like Overdrive Nissan to me. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by bluuford
GPWeek is back
http://www.gpweek.com/PDF/GP037.pdf
http://www.gpweek.com/PDF/GP038.pdf
Usually some good rally news every week during the season.
Tommi Mäkinen tried his skills on two wheels on this weekend's classic Enduro competition 74. Päijänteen Ympäriajo ("Tour de Lake Päijänne", you could say). He however was already out of the race on Friday after fifth stage, said because his BMW bike stopped to work proper. This is Tommi in action, I believe, on the first spectators stage. Tommi have parted in Päijänteen Ympäriajo ("Päitsy") twice earlier.
"Päitsy" is a legendary Finnish enduro race that starts from Helsinki, turns around at Jyväskylä and heads back south. 900 kms altogether with 27 stages in wet yet snowy forests. This year the temperature is close or below zero so it's better for the stages; on years when it's warmer those stages are really, really hard.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LserBOiP95k
CEO at PSA(Peugeot/Citroen) REPLACED:
Apparently PSA is suffering hard from the economic crisis and it was believed that the current CEO didn't do enough to soften the burden at PSA. Possible implications for WRC-involvement?
http://www.vgtv.no/?id=21809
Petter Solberg tests Arne Fredly´s (rich friend of Petter) Ferrari F1 from 2005..
Do anyone know if Prodrive will continue with Marcus on the next rally or was this a one off?
It was originaly just a one off. But seeing how well it actualy went i wouldn't be surprised to see him do more rallies, Finland perhaps ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by tmx