... or Toyota pays for him?Quote:
Originally Posted by RS
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... or Toyota pays for him?Quote:
Originally Posted by RS
Breen will do WRC2 with a Peugeot as well.
Nine rounds for Breen, 4 for Martin: http://www.rallye-info.com/article.asp?stid=12111
I'm curious to see what Abbring will be doing next year, I guess he didn't receive a comparable offer otherwise he would have signed.
Fantastic for Breen to be continuing with Peugeot in 2015 after so much bad luck and reliability issues last year.. :)
“I’m delighted to be continuing with PEUGEOT Sport in 2015 when our priority will be the ERC title, ” says 24-year old Craig. “Last year wasn’t easy. We were down on luck and it was the 208 T16’s debut season but now all the ingredients are in place. The car combines speed and reliability and I know the team well, since this will be my third year as part of the official line-up. It’s going to be an exciting but busy year because my programme also includes, with PEUGEOT Sport support, seven WRC-2 outings in the 208 T16 with the same team.”
The PEUGEOT Rally Academy’s 2015 campaign with the 208 T16 and 208 promises to be particularly busy, beginning with its first competitive appearance on next month’s European Rally Championship opener, the Jännerrallye.
What is the future for Lappi, have I missed the news on his 2015 intentions ?
Not heard anything since celebrating Skoda's 50 golden wins ...
https://scontent-b-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/...03371751_o.jpg
Skoda Motorsport will not start with S2000 car anymore. They are waiting for R5 car...
It depends on what the deal Abrring has made for '15, maybe better than another year at Peugeot, or no deal at all: bet on wrong horse... Time will tell, we probably get answer on short notice
Škoda doesn't plan any starts before late March/April therefore they have time for negotiations. The stock Fabia is brand new. It needs some promotion and Škoda is in very good financial condition to afford that. We can safely assume they will do ERC, WRC2 and Czech championship together with a certain number of other national championships with the new R5 car (Belgium, Austria for example). For WRC2, ERC and Czech championship they need more than two drivers. Abbring certainly is in the radar but he has another options too.
Yep ! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by RS
"The Peugeot Rally Academy’s second driver will be French ace Charles Martin (25), who followed in the footsteps of Kevin Abbring as winner of the 208 Rally Cup in 2014. His prize for winning that series is six events in the 208 T16, namely four in the European Rally Championship (Circuit of Ireland, Azores, Barum Czech Rally Zlin and Greece) plus two rallies in France (Le Touquet and Var). The Academy’s programme will again be overseen by Team Saintéloc."
But just 4 rounds in ERC? Even Ancian had 6 in 2013.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
I presume not the works team in WRC2?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
I would still like to see them support a new young Czech driver for the Czech Championship and Kopecky back to ERC.
It all depends when R5 is finally homologated. It can change all plans.
Charles Martin has also 6 starts, but two of them will be in french championship (Touquet and Var). I think it is because Lefebvre will use second Peugeot car on Ypres and winner of JERC 2015 will use second Peugeot on Corse.Quote:
Originally Posted by WUff1
Lukasz Kabacinski revealed his plan for the beginning of the ERC season:
"We will start right at the beginning of January from Rally Jänner held in Austria. Afterwards we will take part once again in Rally Liepaja and hopefully in Circuit of Ireland Rally. Further plans will be decided one by one."
His car will look like this:
https://scontent-a-ams.xx.fbcdn.net/...62&oe=553C3088
Breen, Lukyanuk, Neubauer, Consani and others now registered for ERC: http://www.fiaerc.com/uploads/files/...ed_drivers.pdf
You can see on entry list to Janner rallye (according to priorities), who is registered.Quote:
Originally Posted by RS
Apparently Guillaume de Mévius in ERC3 in 2015 :confused:
I think you mean Ghislain De Mevius, Guillaume is his younger brother who will most likely do a 2nd season with 208 R2 in Belgium. Yes, plan is to drive a Clio R3T as I heard, some European trophy apparently... I don't know more about it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tom206wrc
Guillaume is really registered into ERC3. And I expect he will register also into JERC...Quote:
Originally Posted by tommeke_B
5 round for Florin Tincescu this year in ERC3. The car isn't know in this moment.
Swiss driver Jonathan Hirschi revelaed his plans for the begiining of the ERC season:
“I will do the first three rounds because it’s a good opportunity and I am lucky to do that. Then we will reach a point and after that the target is to do 80 per cent of the season. If nothing changes I will do the first three rallies and we will see.”
His car:
http://www.autoklub.pl/media/201501/78886-hirschi.jpg
More about him at http://www.fiaerc.com/news/detail/id...nathan-Hirschi
Do we know how many rounds Kajetanowicz will do this year?
Also anyone know if Bouffier might try to put together an ERC programme this year?
And I know I ask this every year, but what about Basso and Rossetti? After Ypres last year Rossetti said he would do a few more ERC rounds, but it never happened.
All depends on money for those like every year. Kajto will do I think the 7 events that will count for overall classification.
At this stage then Breen has to be favourite for the title as he has a good programme and the car must surely be better than last year.
I believe the Skoda will be competitive but we don't yet know when it will debut or what their programme will be. They will have to start Azores at the latest in order to compete on 7 rounds.
This question was actually asked during the pre-event press conference. Kajto's answer was:Quote:
Originally Posted by RS
“It’s strange, but at this moment I’m not sure. I want to be on seven, maybe eight, rounds, Now we are on Jännerrallye and Rally Liepāja. I spoke with Craig [Breen] and he said, ‘Kajto, come to Ireland, you can be fast there.’ Then we’ll see. Maybe Açores – it’s a beautiful rally, with beautiful stages. I hope we can be there.”
Julius Tannert on Junior ERC with Opel
http://www.fiaerc.com/drivers/detail/id/302
Hermann Neubauer said before Jänner Rallye, that he was still not sure after Jänner if he´d compete in ERC or in Austrian championship. Now after he has retired on Jänner at 4th position, he said he´d continue in ERC, because he doesn´t see any chance beating Baumschlager in Austrian championship after him winning the national part of the Rally at Jänner and all other serious contestants either retired or didn´t start at Jänner. So probably an ERC campaign of Neubauer, too.
His words are understandable, if considering that Baumschlager won Austrian championship already 12 times, and his last and only retirement of the last years was Rallye Waldviertel 2013 (being beaten by Kajto by the way).
Thanks for this interesting piece of news. It will be good to have Nuebauer in the ERC. However, I must say, that I don't understand Neubauer's comments. He is a good driver, 36 years old, has sponsors and a good car. Why can't he beat Baumschlager? With all due respect for this great driver, but he is just a veteran driver, who should be easily beaten by younger competitors. If Nuebauer doesn't know how to do it, he can ask this question to Kajto at the press conference. Kajto defeated Baumschlager twice already and it was like a piece of cake for him, even though he didn't know the stages as good as Mundl.Quote:
Originally Posted by WUff1
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Originally Posted by WUff1
He cannot beat Baumschlager, but he can beat the ERC contenders? :D
He said he and his sponsors could get more attention in ERC, and I think he´s right. In Austria everything is focused on Baumschlager. Austrian media reporting about Jänner Rallye this days all write about Baumschlager, Baumschlager, Baumschlager again - a little bit about Kajto (they finally can´t igore him after this rally) - and hardly anything about the other drivers. But we´ll have to see how long this campaign will last. 2013 Neubauer finally gave his ERC campaing up rather early after a series of retirements, as I remember.
Tarabus skips Latvia but will be back in Ireland :)
Brilliant it will be great to see him here, any news if the R5 will be ready for the Circuit, start of April probably a bit early!Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
All I can say is that I hope the R5 is ready for Ireland but we have to wait and see...
It also depends on production of the Fabia. 25 000 cars have to be produced before the homologation is valid.
That's no problem at all. Fabia production started several months a go. Of course it didn't start on full steam but 25000 is a little more than one month of normal production.Quote:
Originally Posted by tommeke_B
I'd say they'll just want everything right, Peugeot rushed their car and payed for it, can't wait for it to come though
It seems R5 is a very difficult category to get right (maybe even harder than WRC?).
Peugeot/Citroen homologation was delayed and the car is still unreliable, the Ford has not been without problems and Skoda started testing a variation of their car 18 months ago minimum and it is still not ready.
Richard Rodgers is finishing as PR of European Rally Championship (he was also in IRC). Together with other team we have prepared big thanks for his work...
http://www.e-pluto.cz/erc-richard.jpg
As many as 38 crews have already been registered in the ERC. This must be some kind of a record.
The new entries in the top category are Giacomo Costenaro (Peugeot 207 S2000 from Delta Rally) and Jarosław Koltun. Full list here: http://www.fiaerc.com/uploads/files/...rs_updated.pdf