[WRC] News & rumours (part IV) 2016

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Originally Posted by AL14

sounds pretty excited about racing. Do you know what position they got in that race?

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They retired after transmission problem. They had also suspension failure at the beginning of the race (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WVKZA8PMbk at 3:25), but I'm sure they both had a lot of fun.

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Originally Posted by vino_93

"some interesting results on French regional events" Well ... We can say he is clearly slow, even for that level. Ok sometimes he is on the podium, but when you look the classification, you can see he is regularly beaten by R3 cars (well drived, but R3 against WRC ...). Of course, there's worst drivers than him, but he is not especially good ...

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Podium arrivals are always interesting results, no matter what car you drive or whoever comes ahead of you. According to Ewrc data, Pereira managed to get 27 podiums and 3 overall wins. That’s amazing for a “clearly slow” guy…

"Podium arrivals are always interesting results, no matter what car you drive or whoever comes ahead of you." ...

... Well, that is the "angle of view". For example Prokop. He is a privateer so he will never fight for win in WRC. Some people say he should downgrade and drive ERC and fight for podium or even drive some national series and fight for win. And we all know he is fast enough to fight for win nearly everywhere else except WRC rounds. BUT he doesn´t want to. It is not challenging enough for him. (and moreover his sponsors want him in WRC) ...so that is the angle of view.

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Originally Posted by liposh

"Podium arrivals are always interesting results, no matter what car you drive or whoever comes ahead of you." ...

... Well, that is the "angle of view". For example Prokop. He is a privateer so he will never fight for win in WRC. Some people say he should downgrade and drive ERC and fight for podium or even drive some national series and fight for win. And we all know he is fast enough to fight for win nearly everywhere else except WRC rounds. BUT he doesn´t want to. It is not challenging enough for him. (and moreover his sponsors want him in WRC) ...so that is the angle of view.

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I'm sorry to say but Prokop would not challenge the win in most of the ERC races unless other driver have troubles or DNF's.

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Its good to see hamburger boy and Kubica had fun in racing, lets hope they stay there.

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Originally Posted by liposh

And we all know he is fast enough to fight for win nearly everywhere else except WRC rounds.

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Are you sure?

http://www.autosport.com/news/report...-and-bust-over

I dont think that new rules from 2017 helped to bring new manufacturers. I think they onle helped to keep VW in the championship.

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Originally Posted by PLuto

Are you sure?

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Well, I am not sure. :) I would trust him for example in Mitropa or something like that, but on the other hand he is not gentleman driver for sure. And in my opinion he could be somewhere around Lukyanuk speed on Canary Islands, don´t you think? ...And being czech member on international forum I have to be nice when talking about czech driver(s) :)

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Originally Posted by liposh

Well, I am not sure. :) I would trust him for example in Mitropa or something like that, but on the other hand he is not gentleman driver for sure. And in my opinion he could be somewhere around Lukyanuk speed on Canary Islands, don´t you think? ...And being czech member on international forum I have to be nice when talking about czech driver(s) :)

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That is interesting question, where he can be in results in reality. We dont have so many comparisons. Last ones are Cyprus in IRC and Bohemia in Czech championship, but this was always with S2000 car. Now he is driving with WRC car. If he will go to lower category, he must use R5. And it is question how fast he should be there. And it is also question how fast he should be on events in ERC, which he doesnt know...