[WRC] News & rumours (part II)

Doubled points. In WRC it could never be that way.

but the rules were like that all year. And Mikkelsen did have a great run at the end of the season. and could of won at least one other round had it not been for a few seconds. i see what your saying. but i was happy with the way it was..

I'm not saying that I was fan od Kopecky or Hanninen but to win the championship in two rounds...

IF Mikkelsen leaves IRC, who will driver the UK Skoda? (someone from the UK?)

Does anyone know what livery the VW Skodas will use? ie will it be like the one Juho used this year?

More likely those two VW run already this season ;)

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Originally Posted by Hartusvuori

Could it be that next years SWRC battles are bound to be more thrilling than WRC: Ogier, Mikkelsen, maybe Hänninen. All in Skoda though, but still.

And of course good news on Skoda's plans.

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Hopefully we can add Paddon to that list as well.
I spoke very him briefly last week. His 2012 plans are for SWRC and his said he was looking at 3 options, Skoda, Ford and also Impreza R4. Of course it was all money dependent, the R4 being the cheaper option. Let's hope he can find the right funding and do it properly. It will be interesting to see his speed against these others. To be fair I don't feel he was really tested this year in PWRC, although he did drive extremely well, and used his brains to control his lead on most events and made very few mistakes.

Update: Hayden flies to the UK next week for some testing. Hopefully this means a SWRC deal is getting closer.

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Originally Posted by Hartusvuori

Could it be that next years SWRC battles are bound to be more thrilling than WRC: Ogier, Mikkelsen, maybe Hänninen. All in Skoda though, but still.

And of course good news on Skoda's plans.

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Worst case maybe you can add Petter, Henning and Mads as well!

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Originally Posted by Sulland

Worst case maybe you can add Petter, Henning and Mads as well!

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More chance we see Neuville in the SWRC than these 3.

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Originally Posted by Maui J.

Hopefully we can add Paddon to that list as well.
I spoke very him briefly last week. His 2012 plans are for SWRC and his said he was looking at 3 options, Skoda, Ford and also Impreza R4. Of course it was all money dependent, the R4 being the cheaper option. Let's hope he can find the right funding and do it properly. It will be interesting to see his speed against these others. To be fair I don't feel he was really tested this year in PWRC, although he did drive extremely well, and used his brains to control his lead on most events and made very few mistakes.

Update: Hayden flies to the UK next week for some testing. Hopefully this means a SWRC deal is getting closer.

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I agree with all of this. The SWRC could trump the WRC in terms of hard charging drivers and potential battles. If nothing else Ogier will prove just how quickly an S2000 car can go and it will give the other S2000 drivers a very good benchmark by which to judge themselves.

Just small news but maybe interesting for Norwegian members. First Fabia R2 is going to Norway before Christmas for Petter Kristiansen. AFAIK there is one more ordered from Norway but I don't know for whom.