Hmm, I’m not sure about Toyota – they’ve announced just a 2 car team for next years WEC, including Le Mans. So that seems to be their priority.
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Hmm, I’m not sure about Toyota – they’ve announced just a 2 car team for next years WEC, including Le Mans. So that seems to be their priority.
So they are searching for people to give them job on fake project?Quote:
Originally Posted by Donney
Nissen vntas leda Hyundai mot WRC comeback. - emotorsport.se
This article says that Kris Nissen will lead the project and that the driver will be....Jari Ketomaa
I have got totally different opinion about Hyundai comeback. I think they found something, some gap in WRC-regulations and they are trying to hide it until new Hyundai will enter first rally...and that is the reason why the promo video was so...weird. EDIT: Sorry, mistake, there were 2 promo videos...and both were weird :D I mean that official promo few months ago, where the car sounds like "electric car".
I have nothing heard about a comeback of Toyata. How do you know they search people and what for employees?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
Hyundai comes with an official release. So i believe They will come, but when and how? The press release was less content.
They need more communicate about their project soon, before it looks silly from the third car manufacturer of the world.
Hyundai launched their future project at the Geneva Motor Show - one of the most important motor shows in the world.
A car company like Hyundai not going to do that with a 'hoax' project. That's just ludicrous.
Just because some gossip hungry people aren't hearing things, doesn't mean it's not happening...
:eek: Hope it's not true. I was pleased when they said they will develop the car by themselves (not english preparator) but now this driver choice.... Maybe only Sousa for Lotus was worse choice :dozey:Quote:
Originally Posted by EightGear
Also? Did Toyota officially confirm anything? (Edit: Except for the employee advert)
Huyndai is a different thing.
Well.. Toyota presented the Yaris R1. Maybe they just got on that.
One Yaris doesn´t make a WRC.
But with right marketing thinking they´d do the whole spectra like M-sport (Ford) have done...
With all the speculation that is going on regarding the project, could this be what exactly Hyundai wanted? Look at the attention they are getting from this "video" that was leaked conveniently around the same time as the VW launch. I think they know exactly what their doing and are playing a very clever game. ;)
Yoshiaki Kinosh.ita confimed in this July, that Toyota is working for potential return into WRC...Quote:
Originally Posted by Rallyper
P.S. Sorry for using point in the middle of Yoshiaki's surname, but this forum take part of his name as bad word :)
Weren't they presenting i20 the same time when 208 was also presented? :confused:
I don't think that was the same time, but in the same show! At least we saw the Hyundai having a run... or at least it what it seems! Maybe the Pug, because it was nothing said yet too, it's a fake too :PQuote:
Originally Posted by stefanvv
Lots of talk everywhere about Hyundai's WRC project everywhere after that one video accident... In my opinion everything looks to go just as planned. Ok, maybe Hyundai did their official announcement little bit early but everything is definately looking so that we are going to see a proper project. Hyundai is for example recruiting key background personnel to get WRC operations going in Germany (As Mirek already mentioned).
Hyundai i20 WRC, very first drive! - YouTube
Did you seen this one from Hyundai?
Ad when should they start does someone know?
Maybe Sweden or later?
And who is going to drive in them?
We saw it, but wish we didn't...Quote:
Originally Posted by SunDanceRanch
I got your point in Sousa, but about Ketomaa you should take a closer look.Quote:
Originally Posted by SlowSon
Someone who leads a wrc-rally overall after day one is a talented driver. I'm not saying Ketomaa will win WRC ever, but comparing to Sousa is unjustified. Sousa wouldn't win a stage.
That said, I respect Sousa too, not the fastest but faster than most of the forumers. Too bad the Lotus project and the whole gt-r didn't work out..
GT-R class was good idea killed by FIA technical commission during making technical regulations...
"Leading after milimeter one" is just exploiting the facts. We all saw his abilities this year. Look what Prokop, Novikov, Tanak did with the same tyres and Autotek car.
Anyway, here we are talking about developing a new car with an unexperienced team. Even the biggest rising talent is inappropriate for such task. Experience matters here, experience with true factory team, top car and top engineers.
They were afraid of gt-r's challenging wrc's on dry tarmac.Quote:
Originally Posted by PLuto
I'm not saying Ketomaa wasn't a surprise name for me (and actually don't believe it just yet), but comparing him to Sousa was just a bit too much.Quote:
Originally Posted by SlowSon
Ketomaa is insanely talented, and I just want to point that out. 42 stage wins in SWRC 2010 is another proof of that. Not a rising star anymore, though.
This year was a pure farce with D-Mack. In Sweden when I went to his pit in shakedown and saw his D-Mack's missing big 2cm x 2cm bits of rubber it was clear that he shouldn't even start the rally. Luckily the tyres weren't so bad in other circumstances and got dramatically better throughout the year.
Nothing new, usual copy&paste&translate from other articles on internet...Quote:
Originally Posted by Barreis
There were some additional informations during this week:
Noch nichts Neues von Hyundai*:: rallye-magazin.de
Wait some more days, I think then we got some more news about the test in Germany as well.
Just one small mistake there, both Tanak and Novikov were both in M-sport cars NOT autotek! Big difference.Quote:
Originally Posted by SlowSon
And I`m not denying what you said is true though!
is that bad? :) thats just cool of that should happen! But hardly any gentleman driver is close to loeb or sordo anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sami
Not only technical regulation. I guess creating a competitive ground, i.e. setting a well recognized GT cup under existing championships would be enough.Quote:
Originally Posted by PLuto
PG Andersson have contact with the Hyundai team he says today in the swedish newspaper Värmlands Folkblad P-G kan få köra i Asien igen
For the people who cant read Swedish we have to say it is not big at all. PG is saying that he is trying to make them interested in him, nothing more. Other than that the article takes up Protons future plans that are not impressive at all. (Only Asia & Pasific Championship and just maybe S2000). Doesn't look to bright for PG if thats what he's got going!Quote:
Originally Posted by Mikkaki
btw. what happened to Daniel Carlsson? Last thing I heard was that he was caught driving drunk.
That would be a big joke! Remembering his "WRADD"-campaign (world rally against drunk driving) some years ago...Quote:
Originally Posted by Seppala
Unfortenatly it´s true. He really was caught. And that ended his career for sure...Quote:
Originally Posted by tommeke_B
I thought Proton were dead or are MEM trying to keep it going with private funding?Quote:
Originally Posted by J.Lindstroem
Don't know if this has been posted here before. In newspaper As Pipo says several things about Hyundai's project, according to him Hyundai has revealed that they will invest 60-70m€/yr in the project, more than Citroen (50m€ ;) but less than VW (around 100m€ ;) . They've already bought a building in Offenbach and the chief engineer from 2013 will be Michel Nandan, they have to wait for Nandan's contract expiration with the FFSA which is at the end of the present year.
Really ? That's sad.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rallyper
Is he rally nowadays ?
These pics tell much more than that cr***y video previously :up:Quote:
Originally Posted by AP-Racing
there is a video from the white i20.Car is definetely at Germany
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