https://www.facebook.com/hyundaiczec...51940738718680 - Huttunen's car.
Strong chances we will see Ostberg in one of the national championships.
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https://www.facebook.com/hyundaiczec...51940738718680 - Huttunen's car.
Strong chances we will see Ostberg in one of the national championships.
With Citroën?
Yes, the car should be Citroen.
Instead of WRC?Quote:
Originally Posted by Tom K
As an addition.
Norwegian championship if Řstberg can get a car.
Brynildsen replacing Bulacia in Artic Rally
https://parcferme.no/rally/skoda-mot...kommende-helg/
Lappi is testing
https://www.facebook.com/EsapekkaLap...82812782071928
Any explanation to this replacement?Quote:
Originally Posted by SubaruNorway
As far as We have heard, it is coronarelated. Not sure exactly what.Quote:
Originally Posted by Co-driven
The driver (Bulacia) confirmed problems with Residence Card in Spain and he can't travel to Finland and will miss #ArcticRallyFinland.Quote:
Originally Posted by Co-driven
(Answer from Jarno Saari in Twitter)
Too bad VW decided to stop rallying, in Finland the Polo is smashing the others.
It seems to be more stable in high speeds than the Fabia and rest.
But had I been in a factory that is in WRC2, and had paid FIA a lot of money to register, not getting any airtime showing car and sponsors at all live, I had complained.
I read somewhere (from Belgium?) that the Polo is tricky to drive when the conditions are changing trough the stages. (that would apply to tarmac though)
That was obviously not the case in Arctic with pretty much very similar grip all the time and same tires everywhere.
Polo was clearly fastest when it came out, but then the fires made it less popular. Also lot of drivers could pick between paying for everything themselves in a Polo or getting partly or fully funded by a factory team. Was quite easy to instead go for partly factory (i.e. Solberg in Skoda).
Nevertheless I think Lappi is faster than Mikkelsen on very fast gravel, which is why I put him ahead of him in pickems. That said in the faster and smooth sections the Polos (Lappi, Gryazin, Kaur) did seem to have an advantage. But for sure Lappi pushed, after all he spend time in a snowbank. Not sure how much he pushed on PS, but PS surface seemed a lot more icy/gravel polished and less smooth/soft like the saturday stages.
For Lappi I'd say he'll likely start at some point later in the year (for example in Finland) and due to Fiesta WRC in current form it's more likely he'll do WRC2. I'd definitely recommend him to start also on some rally where he does not have best results (Sardinia, Portugal or some tarmac for example). Else he kind of risks getting to the same position as Breen - "specialist" picked only for certain rallies.
Kaur is planning to do portugal and sardegna next but still not 100% sure.
Eyvind Brynildsen gets a call while prepping to do a national rally in an old Golf III Kit Car; please get to Finland ASAP, Bulacia will not be able to participate, can you drive for us?
The answer was yes, of course.
After working to get his own Co-driver Veronica with him for a few hours, they both jump on a plane.
Eyvind and Veronica ends up 4th in WRC2, with very little prep, and no km in a Fabia since october 2020. That is impressive!
Ford could need him to take a role in their WRC2 program, and development of the Rally2 Fiesta!!
Sadly Ford doesn't have a WRC2 program. M-Sport only rents their cars to people who can pay for them :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Sulland
Quote:
Originally Posted by Sulland
The C3 drivers weren't top drivers in Arctic, difficult to judge if the Citroën would have been better or not ;)
Does not Fourmaux have some sort of deal?Quote:
Originally Posted by AnttiL
But the important thing that M-Sport has to make some money. The Rally2 is not the bestseller these days, and the reason is that the car need more development on gravel/snow to become a winner on the sales charts again.
It's not Ford (the car company) paying for people to drive the rally cars. Fourmaux has backing from FFSA, Red Bull and other personal sponsors. And possibly some sort of investment program from M-Sport as well. But not Ford.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sulland
Ostberg in WRC 2 with Tagai
https://media.citroenracing.com/en/M...b7xSaxeQp6G-UU
He will start from Croatia. One week earlier will attend Miskolc Rally in Hungary.
Really glad for him although I will miss him on WRC live :(
“He is looking strong,” says Řstberg. “He has a good car and we have seen his team is strong as well. But I’m not afraid of anybody in WRC2. I’m not afraid of Andreas. He will be hard to beat, but I beat him in 2018, the last time we were both in equal machinery and driving World Rally Cars and I feel comfortable that we will have a good fight this year.
https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/the-d...-wrc2-defense/
Test in Sardegna for new hyundai i20 rally2
https://translate.google.com/transla...ai-i20-rally2/
Tom Kristensson
@KristenssonTom
TOM KRISTENSSON JOINS WRC2 AS A FACTORY DRIVER FOR M-SPORT FORD WORLD RALLY!
Tom Kristensson will be competing in WRC2 for british M-Sport Ford World Rally Team in a Ford Fiesta Rally2-car.
#wrc #wrclive #msport #msporters
#wrc2 #fiajuniorwrc
Rubén Pérez
@RubnPerez
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3h
El programa de Tom Kristensson y David Arhusiander en el #WRC2 junto a M-Sport es:
#CroatiaRally
#RallyPortugal
#RallyEstonia
#RallyFinland
#YpresRally
#RallyRACC
Why new Hyundai is the Brad Pitt to old R5’s Andrea Adamo
The development process of the Rally2 has been very different to the R5, indicative of Hyundai's rate of progress
https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/why-h...-andrea-adamo/
The list of "hints" about how the i20 R5 is bad is very long lately.
Question is how much of that is deliberate hype so that people buy the new car... and how much is a revelation of the true performance. Pretty hard to say.
Kajto's livery for 2021 - seven rounds in WRC 3. Start from Croatia.
Attachment 2063
Attachment 2064
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https://www.rallit.fi/esapekka-lapil...a-viritteilla/
Lappi plans to do Portugal with Movisport Polo.
As we talked about after Arctic he needs to show he can do well on other types of rallies than fast gravel/snow.
Portugal fits that, but as pointed out punctures often play a role there.
One of the tarmac rallies should be next imo. Croatia could have been ideal imo. Next tarmac rallies are much later in the season.
The advantage of that is that a good result later in the season is always more "remembered" than early in the season when it comes to picking drivers for next year. Then again most seats might already be taken....
Additional danger is that Hyundai introduces new I20 which is much better and maybe even the new Fabia is ready by then (August+).
Croatia is probably too soon for his budget collecting, and in Portugal he's more likely to do well, and thus then be able to score more budget for more rounds.
i seriously doubt that. Skoda like to test a lot.. homologation Jan1st 2022 seems more likely to me.Quote:
Originally Posted by mknight
Emil Lindholm joins Toksport for a WRC3 program from Croatia onwards.
Croatia, Portugal, Sardegna, Estonia and Finland (this with TGS)Quote:
Originally Posted by AnttiL
Chrs Ingram:
We're Back ! And competing in our debut season of the @officialwrc FIA World Rally Championship!
A dream come true and the biggest opportunity of my life. Thank you so much to everyone who has made this reality.
●We will begin our debut WRC campaign at the Rally Croatia
●We will compete in a minimum of 6 rounds in WRC3 and will step-up to WRC2 for 2022
●CarFinance 247 signs up as key partner
●Protec, WS Transportation, Kroon Oil, Fleetback, HAH Whiskey, FreeM Racewear and Stilo Helmets join the @rallywarrior team as partners
●We join new team SXM Competition
Former "Toyota driver" Hiroki Arai is going to compete in WRC3. His program will consist of atleast four WRC rounds. He will start in Croatia, the other three rounds will most likely be Sardinia, Belgium and Japan. He will drive Ford Fiesta Rally2.
More details about it:
https://www.thecheckeredflag.co.uk/2...-stohl-racing/
I must say I dont understand his programme as it will be mixture from different championships. And when he needs to choose races in WRC3, he is choosing Croatia and Ypres where he has almost no chance for proper result...Quote:
Originally Posted by Jarek Z
Four WRC3 events and Sanremo as a "test" event, not really mixing championships?Quote:
Originally Posted by PLuto
To me it seems he wants to prepare on tarmac for Rally Japan. Although Catalunya would have been better than Ypres.
Original plan is more complex than only WRC3 events, only it was not announced yet... And I am not sure that Rally Japan will happen this year (as part of WRC).Quote:
Originally Posted by AnttiL