Mini set to announce wrc entry

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Originally Posted by fastboy

I think PG is closing in on a deal with Ford for next year.

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to be honest i dont see anything special about PG and meek,their perfomances didnt impress me since the start of the season only retirements and excusses :dozey:

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Originally Posted by Red bull

to be honest i dont see anything special about PG and meek,their perfomances didnt impress me since the start of the season only retirements and excusses :dozey:

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So who did impress you? If you were DR or Pappa Wilson.

jari ketoma and sandell

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Originally Posted by Red bull

to be honest i dont see anything special about PG and meek,their perfomances didnt impress me since the start of the season only retirements and excusses :dozey:

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Don't You think that it's not very likely that Meeke lost his last year's performance suddenly? The reason for his bad results is just that Skoda works more efficiently. Anyway two retirements were technical failures, two crashes but in both cases he was given orders by Quesnel to try to defeat Skoda for any cost. It's no wonder it led to accidents. His problem is not his speed but Peugeot philosophy where engineers have the main word in setting car and driver has to obey. Another problem is that Peugeot fired other good drivers (Vouilloz and Loix) who were supporting Meeke last year. At all respect Magalhaes and Neuville are not experienced enough to substitute them. Moreover those fired guys turned to Skoda and helped it to defeat Peugeot and Meeke. It's a fight which Meeke could win only in extremely lucky circumstances. And we could see that miracle hasn't come.

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Originally Posted by Red bull

jari ketoma and sandell

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Ketomaa is great on gravel but has no experience on tarmac at all and for car development that's VERY important skill. Sandell? Sorry, but what did he prove? He drove superior car in PWRC for two years and didn't achieve anything remarkable. Now he has the best Skoda in SWRC and besides quite surprising performance in Deutchland there is again nothing remarkable.

Petter Solberg.

I couldn't go yesterday, so I didn't see Marcus driving!! :mad: :mad: Mas he sure looked much, much faster than Meeke..

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Originally Posted by Sulland

Smart of them to use a lot of drivers to get as many driving styles and aspects of the car to the surface.

Gronholm looked like he had a bad back walking to the car.

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I heard him talking about a small injury.. guess it is that.

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Originally Posted by JRodrigues

I couldn't go yesterday, so I didn't see Marcus driving!! :mad: :mad: Mas he sure looked much, much faster than Meeke..

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On Thursday there were technical problems and anyway it's development testing, it's not a race.

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Originally Posted by JRodrigues

I couldn't go yesterday, so I didn't see Marcus driving!! :mad: :mad: Mas he sure looked much, much faster than Meeke..



I heard him talking about a small injury.. guess it is that.

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Hi JR, as Mirek said, car was basically in safety mode, maybe only 50-60% performance and there were minor technical issues with the dust etc and suspension. No different from you going to your local Mini dealer and getting a test drive (without the sales guy shouting at you to slowdown) :)

I think once the project gets going with more development, testing and the correct components we can then see what the situation is.

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Originally Posted by Barreis

Petter Solberg.

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I believe Petter was never considered for the drive.

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Originally Posted by 'Mirek Fric [Cze

]Don't You think that it's not very likely that Meeke lost his last year's performance suddenly? The reason for his bad results is just that Skoda works more efficiently. Anyway two retirements were technical failures, two crashes but in both cases he was given orders by Quesnel to try to defeat Skoda for any cost. It's no wonder it led to accidents. His problem is not his speed but Peugeot philosophy where engineers have the main word in setting car and driver has to obey. Another problem is that Peugeot fired other good drivers (Vouilloz and Loix) who were supporting Meeke last year. At all respect Magalhaes and Neuville are not experienced enough to substitute them. Moreover those fired guys turned to Skoda and helped it to defeat Peugeot and Meeke. It's a fight which Meeke could win only in extremely lucky circumstances. And we could see that miracle hasn't come.

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It will remain always this way with French teams, how they treat foreign people and drivers! Look at Citroën (Duval,Sordo.) And how with the future from Petter Solberg?), Peugeot in the past (Loix, Grönholm)!
Look in the history.
The worst that you can do is to drive or work at a French team. :rolleyes: