[WRC] News & rumours (part II)

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Originally Posted by MartijnS

He said in Salou at the Rallytravel Auction that they are working on a project for WRGB, with factory support. This week everything is being decided.

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What sort of items did the auction there? Would like to go and buy some stuff!

Bonnet of Ken Block in Argentina, replica helmet of Loeb. Gloves of different drivers, drivingshoes, some vip tickets for the service. Collection of glasses of JM Latvala. Hats, t-shirts etc. Possibly more which i dont remember ;)

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Originally Posted by MartijnS

Bonnet of Ken Block in Argentina, replica helmet of Loeb. Gloves of different drivers, drivingshoes, some vip tickets for the service. Collection of glasses of JM Latvala. Hats, t-shirts etc. Possibly more which i dont remember ;)

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So jealous!! I want the Latvala glasses and some gloves. What sort of prices were they?

Helmet 1000 euro. Glasses 350 or something, gloves dont know, around 150-200 i think. Bonnet 475.

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Originally Posted by bretddog

Odds that Loeb could have beaten Petter in GB 2003 is not really in his favor. Petter won it also in 2002, and in 2004 when Loeb was fighting hard. Actually in 2004 he made everyone's eyes pop by taking more than 10 sec on Loeb over 10km in one of the last stages, to snatch the win. At the time the Impreza was fast.. And Loeb has evolved as a driver, he was not always superior on every surface, and in fact still isn't, though quite hard to beat.

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Seb was leading after 4th SS, but after Sainz retire, Frequelin told to slow down and just finish the course. It's a known fact about it and at that time was a note on wrc.com. Guy said at the time - Seb is still young and will have a chance to win. A victory is important for us Citroen

Watch this thread if interesting
http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/showthread.php?t=450847

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Originally Posted by Francis44

Peugeot Sport Portugal is no more, Magalhães without a seat for next year.

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Sad, sad... ;(

According to L'Equipe from yesterday, Miko Hirvonen could replace Sébastien Ogier at Citroën Racing 2012 :confused:
But maybe I'm late and you all have heard of this rumour :mark:

german rallye magazine says the same with ogier and hirvonen.

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Originally Posted by AP-Racing

Seb was leading after 4th SS, but after Sainz retire, Frequelin told to slow down and just finish the course. It's a known fact about it and at that time was a note on wrc.com. Guy said at the time - Seb is still young and will have a chance to win. A victory is important for us Citroen

Watch this thread if interesting
http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/showthread.php?t=450847

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Loeb lead by 4 seconds at ss3, that's supposed to indicate anything? In 2004 he lead until the penultimate stage, when Petter made a joke out of him. Petter won more than half of all ss's in GB from 02-04, he had pretty firm control in those conditions. That Loeb was told to stay on the road is quite obvious. But he would have lost out in any case..

Loeb won 3 events that year, all on tarmac. 38 out of his 71 points were on tarmac. He simply did not yet have the speed and confidence on the lose surfaces yet at that time. All but the tarmac, he was just slower. In fact, while Petter won one tarmac event, Loeb never finished any non-tarmac rally in front of Solberg over the whole season. The fastest man won, plain and simple.

So to think Seb could have done it in GB, is pretty poor speculation.

I also agree that Solberg would have won either way that year in GB, but If Loeb was pushing him then he could also have an accident..."what ifs" do not create champions though...

The fact that they have the same age and how they evolved after that year shows the difference between a true rally legend and a true rally champion...