Malcolm will welcome him back again as he can drive in the team with the rest of Wilosons no hopers.........apart from JMLQuote:
Originally Posted by Bobcat
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Malcolm will welcome him back again as he can drive in the team with the rest of Wilosons no hopers.........apart from JMLQuote:
Originally Posted by Bobcat
He sure can drive a car, but he also know how to crash them. The sad thing is that i dont think hell ever learn how to stop crashing..
Why is that? There are others who have learnt it... Why not Duval?Quote:
Originally Posted by J.Lindstroem
He is crashing so in so many rallies, and it doesn't seem like he is doing any better. Ok if he was a young driver searching for his limtation - then its ok to crash a lot, but Duval is 30 years old (?). Dont get me wrong i really like Duval both as a driver and as a person, but his driving is rather disapointing. He is fast driver, but Ford need a driver who is both fast and reliable on tarmarc. Not a driver who is crashing in almost every rally. Yes he is fast but it does'nt matter if he doesnt reach the finish!Quote:
Originally Posted by A.F.F.
Colin McRae competed several seasons for Ford, and no one has ruined more cars than him...
He had to drive Germany with a worthless Focus, the one Henning destroyed in Finland two weeks before.
He was able to do some pre-event testing, but I think M-sport just needed him to find the ideal tarmac set-up of the car.
I would like to see him back in the WRC very much, but I don't think that will be the case.
He declared recently to stop competing and concentrating on the business - secondhand Toyota's & a recently opened Peugeot-dealership.
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Originally Posted by J.Lindstroem
A 10 years crashing plan to do the trick ? :s tare:Quote:
Originally Posted by A.F.F.
McRae was winning rallies at the same time though + he was already world champion when he went to ford.Quote:
Originally Posted by millbrook
Exactly with McRae he was on the edge but damn he was fast and challenging for wins in every type of event. Duval didn't.
Spoke to both a lot of over the years, Colin was more silent guy, François had/has a attitude problem :DQuote:
Originally Posted by I am evil Homer
This is far from being true. Three or four years a go there was a relation on wrc.com where they compared drivers of WRC era in crashing percentage (retirements due to crash/number of starts). Atkinson and Duval were by far most crashing ones (around 1/3 of starts ended by crash). Colin was only tenth or so. If I remember right his crashing percentage was less than half compared to Duval. Besides that Colin was world champion, won 25 rallies and was exceptional personality. With all respect Duval is nowhere near him.Quote:
Originally Posted by millbrook