[WRC] News & rumours (part II)

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Originally Posted by N.O.T

The mistake finnish rally drivers with potential do is that they focus doing rallies they know well so nobody can get them seriously...what is the point of top 3-5 times in Finland and Sweden ?? Sure it helps to find sponsosrs for local village events and makes their life easier but they exclude themselves from a future in the sport...

If you look at both Finish drivers who are in the scene right now they focused on a broad schedule of events not just those that are 100 meters from their door and the organisers let them run through the stages a million times.

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Sometimes N.O.T. is right.... In fact even Hirvonen still suffers a bit with this.

Can someone tell us what Finnish Championship is like too? Is there much variation or is it all Rally Finland type events?

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Originally Posted by Hartusvuori

This applies to all nations. Only few get a chance to do international rallies. You are right of course, it's logical, but it's difficult to put the ideal theory into practise.

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the thing is that in most other countries conditions are far more neutral when it comes to surfaces since they have both gravel roads and tarmac roads used for rallying, and their gravel roads have a variety.

In Finland they have only gravel roads (i have seen some rallies on tarmac but tehy are just sprint like events) and even them have very little variation between them, sure they make their drivers awesome in controlling high speed corners and tackling the crests and the jumps, but they have problems when they have to drive on normal gravel roads, let alone tarmac ones.

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Originally Posted by N.O.T

The mistake finnish rally drivers with potential do is that they focus doing rallies they know well so nobody can get them seriously...what is the point of top 3-5 times in Finland and Sweden ?? Sure it helps to find sponsosrs for local village events and makes their life easier but they exclude themselves from a future in the sport...

If you look at both Finish drivers who are in the scene right now they focused on a broad schedule of events not just those that are 100 meters from their door and the organisers let them run through the stages a million times.

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IMO Tommi Mäkinen’s breaktrough was when he won NORF in 1994. Next year he started his Mitsubishi “career”.

And as Markko Märtin said when he won NORF.

“If I can win here I can win everywhere”.

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Originally Posted by OldF

IMO Tommi Mäkinen’s breaktrough was when he won NORF in 1994. Next year he started his Mitsubishi “career”.

And as Markko Märtin said when he won NORF.

“If I can win here I can win everywhere”.

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Loeb is opposite,so?

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Originally Posted by OldF

IMO Tommi Mäkinen’s breaktrough was when he won NORF in 1994. Next year he started his Mitsubishi “career”.

And as Markko Märtin said when he won NORF.

“If I can win here I can win everywhere”.

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Jepp, and first time we noticed Marcus Gronholm was when he lead NORF in a factory Corolla, but had to retire after getting out of petrol. After that he became a full WR Star!

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Originally Posted by bassist

They didnt choose Ford Fiesta WRC`s for the event then!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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It's already known for maybe two months that the cars are Škodas. It was also mentioned here on forum ;)

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Originally Posted by mousti

Block and Ostberg for sure, maybe even more guys.. Kuipers and Van Merksteijn plans also not being published.

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Kuipers for sure also tested Mini.

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Volkswagen Motorsport director Kris Nissen confirmed his team hadn’t intended to run on all events(!!!!!lololol!!!!!!) next year but added Ogier’s insistence that he continued to learn the rallies swayed his decision.''
World Rally Championship - News - Ogier set for full WRC season in 2012


lololololololol

did he had any more important job to do Ogier? or they thought that there is no reason to run all rallies?

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Originally Posted by Plan9

Wow imagine the expose Mini would get from just 1 viral gymkhana video. Why did these dudes test the mini? Is like some friendly thing they have with prodrive or more serious like a preliminary to a more substantial business relationship???

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I guess they got invited by Prodrive to test, like they've done the whole year already, and knowing that there program is not confirmed yet It's worth a try to persuade them :) .

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