[WRC] News & rumours (part II)

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Originally Posted by alleskids

Volkswagen would be very happy with a Brasilian WRC. South America is a big market for VW, especially Brasil. Ford will also have interest in South America. Citroen has only reasonable sales in Europe?

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Citroën's sales in Brazil are far behind VW, Fiat, GM, Ford, but are fastly growing up thanks especially to the C3 Aircross, minivan SUV(image of the marque, the car is liked by many young Brazilians,...) ;)
So yes, Citroën has plenty of interests if there's a WRC round in Brazil :p :

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Originally Posted by Mirek

R4T is going to be completely different car to WRC not like in case of S2000/WRC. But anyway the option that Citroën leaves in favor of Peugeot is real. Let's wait and see.

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More surprising is the following of the rumour: Citroën could replace Peugeot at...Le Mans(and WEC championship) :eek:

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Originally Posted by Tom206wrc

More surprising is the following of the rumour: Citroën could replace Peugeot at...Le Mans(and WEC championship) :eek:

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Hmm, I wonder why – Loeb has expressed a wish to do Le Mans, so Citroen don’t want him doing it with Peugeot, or even worse, another company altogether. So maybe they’ll switch from WRC to WEC.....

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Originally Posted by OldF

That’s IMO possible if Citroen is taking the Qatar money next year.

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Originally Posted by Motorsportfun

Yes! Qatar will replace RB in the Citroen livery :)

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The bulls up to "Total" branding on the bonnet will be replaced by QATAR :)

Other news: Magneti Marelli will decide soon Luca Pedersoli's 2012 programme. The possibility of an 8-rallies programme is yet on the table! ;)

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Originally Posted by Tom206wrc

More surprising is the following of the rumour: Citroën could replace Peugeot at...Le Mans(and WEC championship) :eek:

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There's also a plan to put back Citroen at the Dakar Rally! :)

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Originally Posted by manta400

dont want to sound gruesome, but always wondered what exactly happened or if there was a coroners report. What happened to Roger? i take it it was a drivers side impact?

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Naturally there has to be one, but when I searched County Records most everything was locked down due to ongoing litigation---lawsuits (this is America, eh?).
Several guys who were there in just 2-3 minutes said devastating side blow into BIG tree---we do have some big 'uns here in the North West--and estimated speed: who knows but it was right off the start, basically flat thru the gears. But very fast, and marbly.

(those big trees we have are also REAL TALL and so our roads are made to accommodate the big Kenworth Semi-trucks which haul the trees out long ways, often 25-30m long, so all the turns and junctions even are BIG and WIDE. so we have very high average speeds with local mid pack guys in very low spec old Golfs averaging 90 km/hr and many of the herd of Subarus averaging 110-114km/hr)

There was cage failure also. I don't know how much more failed than the door X bars cause I never saw the shell afterwards, but I has seen fractures and splits in other cars built specifically for what we must be honest and say "rich buy a ride guys pretending they're works guys who pay $32,000 per event just to beat a local guy in a 86 Golf" with works level needs, so the cars are built very lightweight. Scandalous...

And it may be that that is the point of litigation.

http://www.brasilrally.com/img/logo.png

The second project, anticipated by Italian mag Rally Emotion, has been revealed!

http://www.brasilrally.com/img/Comunicato_EN_nov_11.pdf

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Originally Posted by Tom206wrc

Citroën's sales in Brazil are far behind VW, Fiat, GM, Ford, but are fastly growing up thanks especially to the C3 Aircross, minivan SUV(image of the marque, the car is liked by many young Brazilians,...) ;)
So yes, Citroën has plenty of interests if there's a WRC round in Brazil :p :

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PARIS - French car maker PSA Peugeot Citroen said Wednesday it expects to post a significant operating loss for the second half of this year.

Let's hope the Redbull deal with Mini will be reality soon then although it's a bit of a surprise because most logical it was VW that would have that support because of an earlier partnership in their Dakar Era but VW doesn't really need the partnership something what Mini is really missing a healthy and a very valuable partner!