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Originally Posted by fast eddie wrc
IMHO he is always welcome in WRC. He will bring some addition jurnalists on the events & more writting & more publishing...and finally-Kimster will enjoy!Quote:
Originally Posted by Allez Andruet
And for a F1 driver he has the balls to drive new era WRC cars. All others (except RK, of course) would simply shit in their pants....
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Originally Posted by steve.mandzij
do not bother.
The news that every Estonian has waited, Tänak also competing at rally Estonia with Yaris WRC! So we have Paddon, Breen and Tänak, only someone from m-sport now needed. This is unbelievable what Urmo Aava has achieved, they are taking very seriously to get the place in WRC calendar.
Some dreams come true :)
Nice. M-Sport should send Suninen.Quote:
Originally Posted by EstWRC
Autoglym Rally in Finland during the same weekend is much better place to test for Rally Finland. The roads are similar, because there is always some old 1000 Lakes Rally stages...Quote:
Originally Posted by Watson
Autoglym stages are a bit wider, firmer and faster than Rally Finland, especially this year with the new smaller roads planned for Rally Finland and supposedly Autoglym being largely the same as last year. But then again, Autoglym probably has more of similar jumps and crests than Estonia, because the whole country is flatter.Quote:
Originally Posted by rp
They were thinging about it but then Jouhki heard about it and said that it will NOT help for RallyFinland...Quote:
Originally Posted by Watson
If Suninen starts it will probaly be AutoGlym.
Rally Estonia is great event but AutoGlym is much better for RallyFinland testing, most of R5 drivers will choose AutoGlym.
Estonians have offered more than 10.000€ startingmoney to teams with WRC18, AutoGlym can´t compete with that.
Finland allready has his wrc event, so why should anybody whine, when Estonia has his rallye? Autologülülüm...
Urmo Aava in my opinion is one of the biggest talent losses the WRC suffered due to lack of funds... good to see he contributes to the sport from a different post but i would prefer him in a seat...Quote:
Originally Posted by EstWRC
I cry for him every night before i sleep....
If I am not mistaken the organisers also do local logistics, housing etc. for the WRC teams so they basically just have to show up. Very convenient.Quote:
Originally Posted by pantealex
The event looks like a great substitute to Rally Poland, will probably attend.
Wilson was more interested in RE on the other hand, but Goodwood FOS is then and Ford Performance wants the whole team there...Quote:
Originally Posted by pantealex
Testing for Finland....yes, you can do that in Estonia but in general our roads have softer surface and tad bit less jumps. Road characteristics are more closer to Polish gravel roads than Finland's. But hey, I'm not complaining when 3 WRC teams show up on our roads :P
I think it just sucks that the events are run on the same weekend. Part of the drivers will still go to Autoglym. Otherwise it's just great for Estonians to have an event with WRC cars, or for anyone to have a non-WRC event with three factory WRC cars
Well, RE is part of Estonian-Latvian national cup and a valued competition so a few big names and teams should be more than sufficient.
I meant for spectators, who can only choose one of the events.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tarmop
Estonia would be the "natural" substitute of Poland. On top of that we have an estonian crew in the WRC which is fighting for the championship and rally is popular over there. There are a lot of reasons to include Estonia in the calendar. Unfortunately there are also politics and money that talks, let's see if they will talk estonian next years.Quote:
Originally Posted by EstWRC
EstWRC how about Tanak winning the championship in his home rally? Would you survive that?
There were a lot of reasons to include NZ again too, but the money and politics stuffed that one. Maybe Estonia will have more success with that.Quote:
Originally Posted by AL14
I think that Estonia is more like Finland. Especially if they will keep date in July, for me it is nonsense to do in WRC in so short time two so fast (and very similar) gravel events.Quote:
Originally Posted by AL14
Umh, no, gravel and relief is more similar to Poland. Finland has more rocky gravel and stronger base, Estonia/Poland clay/sand.
I don't want spoil a party (I am excited to see such line up for Rally Estonia and tickets are in my bag already) but talking about Rally Estonia as possible WRC round in nearest future Jean Todt did it. There was his quote in Estonian internet media about it - "Ambitions are a good thing. But there it's like in school - you have to do things step by step. My suggestion - return back in ERC and if you will succeed there why not to try something more ambitious".Quote:
Originally Posted by AL14
Why would they go back to ERC? They accomplished their targets there. In 2014 Rally Estonia won ERC Rally of the Year award.
So you think they weren't successful enough when being part of the ERC calendar?Quote:
Originally Posted by sindroms
Well you can do it in different months...I don't think that makes it impossible.Quote:
Originally Posted by PLuto
Nobody is partying, just saying Estonia would be a nice addition to the calendar.Quote:
Originally Posted by sindroms
I think that was just politics talking from Todt. If you judge rallys by "success" then Australia should not even host playstation's tournaments.
https://yle.fi/urheilu/3-10230643
Mäkinen has trust on Latvala and Räikkönen is not going to do drive for him.
He also comments that Meeke being fired from Citroen was a weird way to handle things and he would think twice before doing the same.
I didn't say that. Ask it to Jean Todt.Quote:
Originally Posted by Franky
As for me Rally Estonia always have been among my all time favorite rallies. I like it in non-ERC format much better and if one day it will become WRC round I will be there (like I am there every middle of July when it take place).
Hyundai, Toyota would be interested in Meeke
https://www.motorsport.com/wrc/news/...meeke-1043270/
typical Evans, mentions Toyota in the headlines but no word of it in the article.
why you keep mentioning articles from this nobody ? he knows nothing about nothing... Nobody is interested in Meeke, his career is over unless he pays... even trash can dogs know that.Quote:
Originally Posted by EstWRC
It is there, just not much:Quote:
Originally Posted by EstWRC
Else it's mostly similar speculation like people did here. Penasse is basically saying that he expects one of Paddon/Sordo to go to Citroen as it is now more attractive, since C3 was competitive on more rallies.Quote:
Prior to news of Meeke's departure last week, Toyota team principal Tommi Makinen said he would be interested in talking to Meeke about a potential future deal.
Wilson comes trough as totally uninterested in Meeke. (obviously unless he pays)
Btw. recalling how some people talk about "French team destroying British driver careers" (meaning McRae+Meeke). It's not like the British teams are known to "save" those drivers. McRae wasn't picked by Ford or Subaru/Prodrive after he got kicked from Citroen and Meeke was kicked from Mini/Prodrive before going to Citroen.
We all know that they are aiming to keep Sordo. And Paddon most probably not having much opportunities he will go to Citroen (if they stays, if not, he is screwed). Wilson will not looking for others unless Ogier retires from sport. Well toyota will stay the same.
Depends on Evans performance for rest of season. For sure he will say he is "very happy with driver line up" to the press, he isn't like Citroen management and won't want to unsettle his drivers, but Porter kept rattling on about Elfyn being given the hairdryer treatment during rally Portugal footage, so who knows.
I think this was related to some incident where Evans damaged something on the car on one of the last ones in shakedown, not on his general performance. (not that his performance has been good so far)Quote:
Originally Posted by Norm75
He is not Tanak. But at least he keeps fighting and on ocassions keep rivals of ford back.
http://www.marca.com/motor/rallies/2...b0f8b456d.html
In this Spanish interview Sordo states again he is not pushing for a championship title anymore, doesn't see himself doing full seasons anymore, doesn't like Rally Finland. Maybe they could next year have him alternating with Huttunen on the faster events, assuming that one of the other drivers would go elsewhere?
i dont think Huttunen is ready for wrc.
Now I agree with you but after Rally Australia maybe not anymore...Quote:
Originally Posted by dimviii
He has to develop a lot.
He constantly crash his R5. Maybe he is just not right for that car. Or the car isn't the right all along.
Are you talking about Huttunen. In Sweden he got stuck in the ditch and in other events he had some spuns. He crashed Sweden PET, but I can't remember any crashes in Rallies yet with R5. :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by ESTR
Seriously? With Tidemand "free" they are talk in Jari to climb to WRC car?
My idea was just to have Huttunen on maybe Sweden and Finland, the events which Sordo doesn't like. I'd hope Tidemand to get a better program.
I agree that Huttunen has been disappointing this year. The Hyundai isn't the best R5 car out there and quite often it has been a technical fault stopping him, but he's made mistakes at well. It's only his first 4WD season after all.