Rally2 (ex-R5) News

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Originally Posted by TWRC

In the meantime, maybe they could develop their customer service program. Botka said in an interview that they had to retire in Azores after they broke the gearbox cable, because they didn't have a spare, despite ordering a dozen in November, just that they haven't arrived yet... Also, he is contemplating a car swap (he'll do Canaries with the DS3, it is currently with Sports&You, after that nothing's sure), and wowed that he'll never buy a Peugeot or Citroën again.

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That's a shame.
Btw, will Botka be serviced by Sports&You in Canarias? They've been doing a great job wit Citro's.

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Originally Posted by Rally Power

That's a shame.
Btw, will Botka be serviced by Sports&You in Canarias? They've been doing a great job wit Citro's.

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He didn't touch on that subject, just that he needs to put in a lot of money to the freshly rebuilt car again and he is growing tired of it. Although I can see some kind of partnership between them as a last chance for the car, we shall see.

Whoever is sponsering Bergkvist in WRC2 need to buy or rent him a better car, preferably a Fabia. He has very little gain on his career in the ageing DS3.

He has the talent, but not able to show it now.

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Originally Posted by Sulland

Whoever is sponsering Bergkvist in WRC2 need to buy or rent him a better car, preferably a Fabia. He has very little gain on his career in the ageing DS3.

He has the talent, but not able to show it now.

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Rossel was at his 2nd rally with 4wd car at Corsica.And was a ds3 r5.

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Originally Posted by Sulland

Whoever is sponsering Bergkvist in WRC2 need to buy or rent him a better car, preferably a Fabia. He has very little gain on his career in the ageing DS3.

He has the talent, but not able to show it now.

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He's the official Citroën Racing test driver, so no other car is possible for him ATM.

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Originally Posted by dimviii

Rossel was at his 2nd rally with 4wd car at Corsica.And was a ds3 r5.

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yes psa cars can be still decent on tarmac,but on loose surface no.(dont mention ucci on italian domestic championsip)

I was talking about Berqvist performance at asphalt rally,like Corse.

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Originally Posted by Sulland

Whoever is sponsering Bergkvist in WRC2 need to buy or rent him a better car, preferably a Fabia. He has very little gain on his career in the ageing DS3.

He has the talent, but not able to show it now.

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I am actually thinking that he has hit a roof and has stopped developing. Sure, the Ds 3 is not the best but there are plenty of people doing better result than him, in the same car.

He did great in the Opel and he did a very good Valais and some good performances in Swedish rallies in a group N Mitsubishi, but apart from that he hasn't really managed to do anything special.

His stage times are awful.

I am not so impressed by him anymore.

Maybe he'll surprise me in the future and I really hope he will because it was too long ago that we had a good Swedish driver.

Also he is associated with Citroen officially so I doubt they will "buy him a skoda or similar" ;)

Does seem that he's in danger of being another Sepp Weigand but as itix says, I think one of those sponsors is Citroen, so he's unlikely to change. In theory he's a development driver too, so maybe he'll get a chance to prove himself with the new C3 R5 at some point.

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Sad thing is that Sepp actually hasn't stopped his development. He was doing notable progress on every event where he started from one year to another. For example here on Barum his results were 10th-4th-2nd in the three years he did in works car. The average time loss was 1,94s/km (with an off), 0,78s/km, 0,22s/km. It simply isn't fair to say he stopped developing his skills.