Time's Up for Latvala...

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Originally Posted by Rallyper

OK, this topic is not regarding Garde, but anyway...

If I was the teamboss I wouldn´t build my team around a youngster. I guess never Ford nor Citroen did that.

So for me any team could build around Garde. He has the quality for sure. Have you seen him riding his M3 in Finnish f-cup?? Look at his home page and you´ll see a brilliant driver,as like Pg never did get a decent team to drive for. :s mokin:

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I have seen live too, and its offcourse incredible stuff when he drives the M3, but the tendense seems to be that the teams prefer younger drivers, maybe because they sell more merchendise that way, dont know.

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Originally Posted by Rallyper

If I was the teamboss I wouldn´t build my team around a youngster. I guess never Ford nor Citroen did that.

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Sorry I have to disagree with you there, Citroen did build their team around a youngster by the name of Loeb.

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Originally Posted by Camelopard

Sorry I have to disagree with you there, Citroen did build their team around a youngster by the name of Loeb.

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Citroen build their team around Sainz and McRae, Loeb only happend to be faster than them.

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Originally Posted by Tomi

Who I would choose? Atkinson and Ketomaa, both bloody fast and Ketomaa gets all out from the cars quicly.

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My team, Petter Solberg and Andreas Mikkelsen would be faster than your guys
catch more headlines and sell more T-shirts :D

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Originally Posted by Tomi

Thats true, and he also has been very unlucky with the teams he has been in, better to wait and see if he can get somekind of program together.

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What was unlucky about his time with Ford?

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Originally Posted by Viking

Citroen build their team around Sainz and McRae, Loeb only happend to be faster than them.

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Actually no they developed a car over many years through Bugalski and Puras, then Loeb. McRae was given a third car to try and win the Manu title...and Loeb showed them both his talents!!!

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Originally Posted by I am evil Homer

Actually no they developed a car over many years through Bugalski and Puras, then Loeb. McRae was given a third car to try and win the Manu title...and Loeb showed them both his talents!!!

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Rådström also should not be forgotten, he did do good work in developing Citroen too.

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Originally Posted by Viking

Citroen build their team around Sainz and McRae, Loeb only happend to be faster than them.

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No, Citroën was build around Loeb, but at that time not to an extent of what we see now. As far as I remember, McRae never felt home at Citroën and even said he didn't got the attention he experienced at Ford.

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Originally Posted by Buzz Lightyear

What was unlucky about his time with Ford?

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I was talking about Seat, Skoda and Suzuki all stopped and he was left without a drives.

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Originally Posted by Viking

My team, Petter Solberg and Andreas Mikkelsen would be faster than your guys
catch more headlines and sell more T-shirts :D

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Agree about the t-shirt thing, faster? no way.
What comes to headlines, it depends where you read the headlines, if you read the papers somewhere where rally is considered a sport, propably not, but if it is somewhere where it is considered like somekind of a freak show, propably yes.