[WRC] News & rumours (part II)

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Originally Posted by cali

Completely agree, I tink most of estonian rallyfans have wishful thinking of Tänak getting a seat in a factory team. I think that he has to drive S2000 category at first, get good results and has to show excellent pace. Then we could talk about factory seat.

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agree, he has showed high potential sofar, but it's still too early to talk about factory seats.

Ott tänak sayd himself that when he dont succeed in SWRC nextyear he will try again in 2012, but if he succeed nextyear he will try his best to get seat in WRCar in 2012.

2011 WRC Sporting Regulations and Appendices (english) - publié le: 03.12.2010
http://argent.fia.com/web/fia-public...ppx%202011.pdf

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Originally Posted by rallyfan+

Ott tänak sayd himself that when he dont succeed in SWRC nextyear he will try again in 2012, but if he succeed nextyear he will try his best to get seat in WRCar in 2012.

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But why not Tanak in a Ford. They will produce at least ten cars. Who´re gonna drive them all?

A 3rd car in Ford WRC factory team should definitly go to PG. No one else is that experienced and fast, today (without contract).

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Originally Posted by Rallyper

A 3rd car in Ford WRC factory team should definitly go to PG. No one else is that experienced and fast, today (without contract).

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Take of that swedish shirt for a while Rallyper! There are several drivers with the same experiance and speed.

Henning, Duval, Ostberg for example. Than i would say that both Ketomaa and Mikkelsen are more attractive even if they dont have the same experiance as PG.

Im sorry but PG has gone the same route as Rådström and Carlsson. (the route of being so close, but so far away)

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Originally Posted by J.Lindstroem

Take of that swedish shirt for a while Rallyper! There are several drivers with the same experiance and speed.

Henning, Duval, Ostberg for example. Than i would say that both Ketomaa and Mikkelsen are more attractive even if they dont have the same experiance as PG.

Im sorry but PG has gone the same route as Rådström and Carlsson. (the route of being so close, but so far away)

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Those named by you are drivers who already are occupied by teams, aren´t they? Or they are already pointed out in one way or another. Or just out because they are done (Duval).

Frankly speaking you dont have to be swedish saying PG should be there also!

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Don't know about factory team drive for Tänak, but somekind of Ford deal is totally possible... He's got indirect contacts with Ford. Mentor being Markko, ex-works Ford driver, Tänäk now driving Katap Racing's Fiesta, etc.

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Originally Posted by J.Lindstroem

Henning, Duval, Ostberg for example.

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Do you really think Henning is as fast as PG? I'm not so conviced after the last year or two - maybe he'll find a new lease of life in the Fiesta. Same goes for Ostberg, although it's hard to tell as he's been in an Impreza.

PG is always blindingly fast in Sweden; hope he gets a good drive for there at least.

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Originally Posted by Juha_Koo

Tänak now driving Katap Racing's Fiesta, etc.

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It's MM-Motorsports Fiesta now :s mokin:

I dont think Tänak wants WRC seat until he feels that he's ready for it!

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Originally Posted by rallyfan+

It's MM-Motorsports Fiesta now :s mokin:

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Yeah, my bad. Katap Racing bought a part of MM-Motorsport so I thought that they own the Fiesta, but actually it's owned by MM-Motorsport as you said.