http://prodrive.com/p_releases.html?id=226
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maybe Sardinia, Greece....
bring him back soon, the championship is boring without such a driver!
S14 costs 470 000GBP plus FAT (70k more then S12b) and is bad car around Citroen and Ford.. Clean road and Gronholm and around fouth place is possible. But first on the road podium is possible only from Mr.Richards hellicopter..
M-Sport announces development of new Ford Fiesta Super 2000 rally car.
Work is due to commence soon on the car, which will be ready for homologation in January 2010.
The Fiesta story:
http://www.rallybuzz.com/m-sport-ford-fiesta-s2000/
But the ideia must be rent the cars instead selling it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barreis
Renting is a very good business to Prodrive.
Couple of chinks of light at the end of the tunnel of doom - the above stories about the Fiesta S2000 being ready for January 2010 and in Motorsport News today Citroen say their S2000 will be ready middle of 2010 for 'winter calendar' Citroen drivers contracts up end of 09, - (I guess an 'acceleration of the programme' would be possible, especially with the synergy with the Pugeot 207)and a strong hint that Loeb is considering a switch to endurance racing. I dont believe that S2000 is fantastic as a concept but if it brings more teams, cars, and drivers rather than 'gentlemen with fat wallets' then I am all for the move as soon as possible.
Sounds like good news. This 'Winter calendar' is a mistake though - the thinking behind it doesn't make sense - no other major Motorsport series does it, so why now?
Why would Loeb go into less noticed series? In my view F1 is the only option beside rallying and perhaps DTM.Quote:
Originally Posted by MJW
I'm not sure I agree with that. Every race in the ALMS is live on Motors TV, plus live radio coverage from Radio LeMans. Plus, Le Mans 24 Hours which is one of the Blue Ribands of Motorsport, the WRC isn't, well not any more. That's why I feel Petter has made a mistake in turning down the Oreca drive for Le Mans. Remember there are different classes and more Manufacturers, i;e competition!Quote:
Originally Posted by Finni
Now that you mentioned it I also thought Petter could have taken up that deal and perhap gain some more experience in driving by switching to circuit racing and then go back to rallying next year. I don't know if that makes any sense though if it will make it harder for him to find a drive in rally after being distant from the sport for a while. But I used to watch ALMS and the Le Mans series all the time on speedvision or speedtv as they called it. I stopped following circuit racing when Audi began to dominate everything with their R8 and R10, still there is a more competition and manufacturers than in WRC.
The FIA has it's first adition of the ranking list of all rally championships, 839 drivers.
1. Loeb, Sebastien 171,669 pts (32 ralis)
2. Hirvonen, Mikko 170,348 pts (32 ralis)
3. Solberg, Petter 158,489 pts (31 ralis)
4. Latvala, Jari-Matti 158,206 pts (32 ralis)
5. Sordo, Daniel 154,214 pts (32 ralis)
6. Solberg, Henning 153,585 pts (32 ralis)
7. Wilson, Matthew 143,145 pts (32 ralis)
8. Atkinson, Christopher 134,491 pts (29 ralis)
9. Aava, Urmo 98,788 pts (21 ralis)
10. Rautenbach, Conrad 96,472 pts (26 ralis)
11. Villagra, Federico 86,183 pts (20 ralis)
12. Andersson, Per-Gunnar 76,308 pts (20 ralis)
13. Prokop, Martin 73,355 pts (24 ralis)
14. Gardemeister, Toni 72,290 pts (18 ralis)
15. Gronholm, Marcus 67,292 pts (14 ralis)
16. Mikkelsen, Andreas 64,753 pts (15 ralis)
17. Hanninen, Juho 59,549 pts (16 ralis)
18. Al-Qassimi, Khalid 58,339 pts (17 ralis)
19. Sandell, Patrik 56,090 pts (20 ralis)
20. Ostberg, Mads 55,865 pts (13 ralis)
21. Araujo, Armindo 51,290 pts (15 ralis)
22. Duval, Francois 50,445 pts (11 ralis)
23. Stohl, Manfred 49,454 pts (13 ralis)
24. Galli, Gianluigi 44,453 pts (11 ralis)
25. Aigner, Andreas 44,029 pts (14 ralis)
26. Ogier, Sebastien 43,966 pts (12 ralis)
http://autosport.aeiou.pt/gen.pl?p=s....stories/69164
They took this list from juwra.com.Quote:
Originally Posted by alleskids
Here is the link :Quote:
Curiosamente, o nosso colega do site http://www.juwra.com tem desde há muito um 'ranking' semelhante, obviamente de acordo com critérios próprios, que aqui apresentamos como curiosidade.
http://www.juwra.com/wrc_rankings.html
So Juwra is secretly a spy for the FIA ? :( Writing on the forum how bad the FIA is, in the mean time being a core member of the FIA :rotflmao:
Well that says to me that 2010 season will be hopefully only S2000 and WRC not allowed anymore. It was the first sign that Ford gave to us that their car will be ready by the beginning of 2010. Maybe they understood that they cannot fight with C4 anyway.. lets just start from clean sheet. And that news came just after Portugal when they started with upgraded engine. So, they found no point to develop the ship that is meant for drowning..Quote:
Originally Posted by wrc_flipper
petter test abarth with a view to participating in a few international rallies"
http://www.rally-live.com/en/headlin...09180257.shtml
Quesnel want Kris Meeke for the futur (With S2000 Cars )
In French :
http://news.caradisiac.com/Rallye-WR...Kris-Meeke-223
The Welsh Assembly has drow back its financial participation in the organization of the Rally of Great Britain. The loss is estimated at 2.5 million euros by the organizing committee of the event is being said today "in danger". ???!!
http://www.autohebdo.fr/rallye/wrc/b...e-gb-en-danger
If an rally is relying on €2.5m to run, then is obviously is top heavy with management, and doesnt deserve any help. Go find a proper sponsor.Quote:
Originally Posted by alleskids
1 million $ to register to FIA WRC.. Where is other money? They must rent private property roads and pay stewards.. Clocks and stuff is from WRC..
it is not that muchQuote:
Originally Posted by Barreis
Press release from IRC...
Conrad Rautenbach makes his Intercontinental Rally Challenge debut on Sata Rally Azores on May 7-9.
Rautenbach, who drives for the Citroen Junior Team in the FIA World Rally Championship, will compete at the wheel of a Peugeot 207 Super 2000 run by the French PH Sport operation.
PH should start ordering another 207....
Good call!Quote:
Originally Posted by urabus-denoS2000
rotfl poor 207 ...
Maybe he could better drive a fire brigade truck, to make sure he has enough fire extinguisers and water to put out any upcoming fires. :) For his speed it should not make any difference.
I can't imagine what's going through the mind of the poor Peugeot right now...
He must have made a cruel joke on the PH Sport boss because I don't know why should he be punished like this... :)
no rally car deserves such fate.... :( :( :( :(
Urmo Aava says that Suzuki are currently building an S2000 car for WRC
http://www.rallybuzz.com/aava-suzuki-s2000-wrc/
^Hopefully true...
the worst is that Rautencash is going to kick IRC regualars asses
Not Meeke and Hanninen, but maybe Basso.
We will see :) ...Quote:
Originally Posted by Gard
Points could be possible, but I don't think he will get close to the top guys on speed.
Quote:
Originally Posted by bennizw
HAH!!!
Seriously,no way man ;)
On tarmac he is lightyears away from Basso...so no way :)Quote:
Originally Posted by urabus-denoS2000
Cali, this is gravel rally ;)
Anyway,the main point is....
No way man ;)
Dream on, he won't be on the podium, because he will crash the car way before. :D :D :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Gard
AHAHAHAH omg you are really funny XDQuote:
Originally Posted by bennizw
Oh, wait, that wasn't a joke ?!