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Looks interesting idea, but very expensive for privateer's. Allso quite hard for drivers and car's. I'm not worried about driver's, but i think car's need special preapration's for this event and car price's will be high in cloud's. Makeing pacenotes will take about a week for that.
i would prefer Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland takeing turn's of organizeing rally's.
Well. This idea is heavily supported by Jean Todt as well. It means completely different event in WRC. He said that all events should not be the same and this is the first step. Most of the organizers have told that to increase the stage distance is very expensive. But if you share it between 4 countries then it is not so expensive and its commercial value is enormous compared to the rally that takes place only in one country.
This idea is that the stage distance will be something like 600-700km, it lasts at least four days. Each day, different country. Starting from Poland and ending in Estonia or vice versa. It should take place close to the NORF, so it is like continuous trip from south to north. Rally totals will be something like 2500km. Every day new service. There is a possibility that rallycars can be carried from one location to the other but the preferred version is they drive it their own.
In addition to the fact that you can have new spectators each day and new car market, you have the possibility to choose the best stages for each day.
So, that means 8 days in total. 3 days for recce, one day for shake and etc 4 days full of stages. Starting from Sunday and ending on Sunday:-)
FIA have choosen candidates for Young Driver Excellence Academy.
http://www.fiainstitute.com/news/Pages/article-84.aspx
5 rally drivers on the list: Abbring, Gould, Kaur, Mikkelsen, Taylor.
strange combination...Quote:
Originally Posted by br21
iRally reports Sordo with Carlos Del Barrio in 2011. 3rd co driver in 12 months
I hear Tanak has signed a 5 year deal with m-sport.
http://www.motorstv.com/car/rally/wr...r-m-sport-dealQuote:
Originally Posted by mm1
New copilot for Sordo: Carlos Del Barrio
It is on its Facebook page that Dani Sordo advertisement: it changes copilot again. Following a financial dissension with Diego Vallejos, Dani Sordo will be copilot in 2011 per Carlos Del Barrio. The program of Spanish is tiny room in 2011 with a participation of the Mini WRC that starting from Sardinia, the remuneration of BMW must certainly be much less important than that of Citroen, of the conditions which could not make it possible the duet of 2010 to get along for 2011. Sordo had already separated from its copilot Marc Marti last August, it changes 6 months again later. Carlos Del Barrio was in particular seen at the sides of Xavier Pons in WRC in 2006 on board Xsara. Diego Vallejos becomes the copilot of Albert Llovera.
Source: http://wrc.is.free.fr/
Oliver Quesnel confirmed today that Petter Solberg is going to drive all 13 WRC rallies this year. Kimi is doing ten rallies.