Future young guns

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Originally Posted by Tomi

There is no secrets, i mean drive coaching, introducing to right people, telling teams about the upcoming driver and other simular things.

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And none can do that better than the Finns, that's why you have so many drivers competing in Rallying ;)

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Originally Posted by pino

And none can do that better than the Finns, that's why you have so many drivers competing in Rallying ;)

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But it's good to remember that the most important is a higly competitive national series on all levels, because witout skill there is really nothing to tell the teambosses about.

P.S. I remember a funny discussion with a Italian and an Aussie guy a few years back, on the way to Jyväskylä, their point was that Finnish rally is on the way down, if you look at signed workdrivers since then it does not look like that :)

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Originally Posted by Tomi

But it's good to remember that the most important is a higly competitive national series on all levels, because witout skill there is really nothing to tell the teambosses about.

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Italian national series are second to none, unfortunately we don't have people like Timo Jouhki, you Finns should build a statue in his honor and put it in the center of Jyvaskyla :p : Still when Timo discover a talent he needs an italian Team ( Motoring at the moment ) to turn him into a title contender. Don't forget that both Hirvonen, Latvala (and now Ketomaa) almost started their career in Italy ;)

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Originally Posted by Tomi

P.S. I remember a funny discussion with a Italian and an Aussie guy a few years back, on the way to Jyväskylä, their point was that Finnish rally is on the way down, if you look at signed workdrivers since then it does not look like that :)

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If that italian happened to be myself, must have been because of those beers we had in the car :p :

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Originally Posted by pino

Italian national series are second to none, unfortunately we don't have people like Timo Jouhki, you Finns should build a statue in his honor and put it in the center of Jyvaskyla :p : Still when Timo discover a talent he needs an italian Team ( Motoring at the moment ) to turn him into a title contender. Don't forget that both Hirvonen, Latvala (and now Ketomaa) almost started their career in Italy ;)

If that italian happened to be myself, must have been because of those beers we had in the car :p :

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We build every winter, but it melts when the summer comes. It's true they start their international carreer in Italy, and for that is a good reason too, the Italian motorpress is very good promotor for unknown drivers, and the series are easy enough to make good results.
Offcourse it was the beers, sorry I forgot :)

Italian Motoring makes good money giving rides to finnish talents so it's not all too altruistic ;)

Did I say that? :) Well you have to say that back in 2005 it wasn't looking as good as it does now. Before the used to be a seemingly unending supply of rally winning Finns and it seemed we only had one back then and who knows how much longer he was going to drive for. Perhaps it was all that beer I had :uhoh:

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Originally Posted by Daniel

Did I say that? :) Well you have to say that back in 2005 it wasn't looking as good as it does now. Before the used to be a seemingly unending supply of rally winning Finns and it seemed we only had one back then and who knows how much longer he was going to drive for. Perhaps it was all that beer I had :uhoh:

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Yes propably the rootbeer :)

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Originally Posted by Tomi

Yes propably the rootbeer :)

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Yeah that's the stuff :up: :beer:

Australia is currently a fantastic breeding ground for young talent but at the moment, due to the demise of factory teams from the ARC, its very hard for young drivers to get anywhere that is financially viable.

Brendan Reeves (19) - first full season of gravel in 2007, did one tarmac rally and impressed by coming second on debut. Second privateer in ARC 2007 and I think fourth overall.

Glen Raymond - He is very fast, up and coming driver who unfortunately had a lot of issues with his car. He was unbelievably fast in 2006 with a very old Subaru Legacy RS, upgraded to a 1995 Impreza but had reliability issues but showed glimpses of brilliance. Now has a Toyota Corolla Sportivo NP so we should see him feature in the 2008 results.

Steve Glenney - Might be late 20s now but he is talented, very fast on both tarmac and gravel, always considered a dangerman at any rally. In the latest tarmac rally in Australia, Rally Tasmania, he beat tarmac "master" Jim Richards (Porsche 997 GT2) in an Evo 9 by over a minute over 3 days. Not bad considering the power difference!

Eli Evans - much the same as Glenney but has a year in the APRC (2006) and sometimes crashes but also very fast!

Paul Batten
Molly Taylor

In NZ there is a bloke called Haydon Paddon who is very quick, as well as Emma Gilmour (Glenn MacNeall's girlfriend!)

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Originally Posted by cal

Does Kalle Pinomäki still have Mad Croc as a sponsor? I noticed he had them last year, when he and Sandell drove for the same team - this year they're Sandell's new main partner.

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Looking at their web site I think Mad Croc is still a sponsor. I was watching the third round of the Finnish championship today, but I didn’t notice any Mad Croc decal on his car.

http://www.setpromotion.com/www/inde...vu=,,en_yritys