[WRC] News & rumours (part II)

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Originally Posted by sal

Citroen are apparantley refusing to sell Solberg a DS3 unless he signs a long term deal as they think he will bugger off and tell another manufacturer all their secrets! Ford are just as bad however as they wont sell any Fiesta WRCs until 2012 at the earliest as they think their secrets will get out...

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He can always call Prodrive, they are selling Mini's ...

DR will sell anything to anybody!

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Originally Posted by mm1

AUS or NZ is a must (especialy the later one)

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In global terms NZ hasn't a huge interest by sponsors... :(

Duval in a subaru WRC at rally catalunya

http://www.rallyracc.com/2010/descargas/inscritos.pdf

He will not start there

My perfect schedule for the WRC:

Sweden/Norway (I want Swedish history but if they can't find a way to make it a proper snow rally Norway has been fantastic)
Ireland (winter tarmac!)
North America
Portugal
Italy
Argentina
Turkey

Break

New Zealand/Australia
Finland
Germany/France
Japan
Spain
China/Indonesia
Wales

Start the last weekend in January and finish the first weekend in December.

I would rotate in Greece, Bulgaria, France and possibly a fourth at some point.

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Originally Posted by Motorsportfun

Finland was a 2-day event.

IMHO the WRC is going in the right direction, mixed events like Spain or Turkey with huge crowds (Turkey in Istanbul, 5th biggest city in the world) was awesome. Also Alsace was a big (positive) surprise. I expected much Loeb-fans, but didn't expect that amount of people in all the stages.

My ideal season would be based on 14 events (12 are not enough for a proper world calendar, but 16 like some years ago were too much):

SWEDEN (with stages in Norway)
MEXICO (or USA, like Simon Long told me... they're under negotiations)
ARGENTINA
PORTUGAL
TURKEY
ITALY (start in Rome, stages all over Sardinia, like IRC 2010)
GREECE
FINLAND
GERMANY
JAPAN
CHINA or INDIA (no both)
FRANCE-ALSACE
SPAIN
WALES GB

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Nice to read that... :)

Indonesia probably not as a 'world' scale event and terrorism threats

China would be good but a good African event would be nice to go to!!!

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Originally Posted by GigiGalliNo1

Indonesia probably not as a 'world' scale event and terrorism threats

China would be good but a good African event would be nice to go to!!!

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Yeah there's not much pint of Indonesian round, risk of terrorism is pretty high and there isn;t much of a car market. So that argument is muted too.

Proton but yes that's true. They do have their share of APRC.