Teemu / Rallirinki @HartusvuoriWRC ·
Interview (in Finnish) with @EsapekkaLappi: https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=share&v=rhfaCQxMUJw …
- What will happen next?
- I was told I'm getting married!
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Teemu / Rallirinki @HartusvuoriWRC ·
Interview (in Finnish) with @EsapekkaLappi: https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=share&v=rhfaCQxMUJw …
- What will happen next?
- I was told I'm getting married!
Polos are being tested again in Sweden
http://www.revistascratch.com/wrc/no...a-suecia-35419
http://www.autoportal.iol.pt/desport...wrc-na-suecia/
Jouhki can say whatever he wants, i actually believe that Wilson isnt interested hiring Latvala. Only 3 podiums this season with VW.
but like my friend said (who is also rallying): "There are two drivers in WRC whose future is sure, Ogier because he is the best and Latvala because he has the best manager."
What for?Quote:
Originally Posted by giu canbera
Don't have a link handy but they said they will continue the program as far as they can, up to preparing homologation papers and going through the preliminary steps. But they can't actually homologate the cars because they won't enter as a manufacturer.Quote:
Originally Posted by RS
I assume this is because they still have the budget which was approved for this year and they're just going to try to finish the job as best they can.
RallyPer has a case of the Stockholm Syndrome :)Quote:
Originally Posted by cali
Teemu / Rallirinki @HartusvuoriWRC ·
Biggest newspaper in Finland @hsfi saying Lappi and Mäkinen signed a deal for Toyota two weeks ago. http://www.hs.fi/m/urheilu/a14797922...5cd7d2b5b2db8f …
#WRC #WRC2017
Teemu / Rallirinki @HartusvuoriWRC ·
According to @hsfi article, Tommi Mäkinen is visiting Japan at the moment. Busy times for team bosses right now. #Toyota #ThreeFreeMen
I will never understand this.Quote:
Originally Posted by dimviii
If they signed a deal, why not make it public? All those secrets around Toyota are just annoying and I think useless too. For sure they're not gathering fans in such way.
Makinen should have hired some communication expert. In 2016 it's fundamental.
Latvala is not yet released from his VW contract.Announcing that he already has a new deal in place will reduce his buy out price.Quote:
Originally Posted by AL14
Lappi was still under contract of Škoda and it was before he become WRC2 champion with Škoda.Quote:
Originally Posted by AL14
I laugh reading some things about Latvala :) Well, good not much internet in times of McRae cause we could "kill" our beloved GOD.
We are fans, we should like the speed, the crashes, the emotion of one guy that lives rally, bread rally every time.
However that doesn´t explain my close relation to NRF. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Lundefaret
Sure. I understand it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
But they could have easily said that a driver had signed.
And also journalists. Where are they? lol are they waiting for official press releases? I would like to know who pay them lol, I want to work there as well.
Look at Per's post at wrc testing thread. Probably he is right 90%.Quote:
Originally Posted by AL14
WRC Promoter are heading to NZ this weekend to have talks with organizers as well as heading to Japan to discuss a return there.
Also, VW are continuing their 2017 car testing as Sven Smeets mentioned to media a few times during Rally Australia
13.12 is TGR press day, they probably will not say anything before it.
I don´t believe that any team has announced anything same day they signed it.
and as said: Before Ogier makes his choice, no deals for others will be signed.
(That Lappi deal could have been made months ago, 100% sure not after VW´s announcemed)
Lappi's deal was made few months ago. Question is if it was on paper or only verbally...Quote:
Originally Posted by pantealex
Julien changed his facebook photo without vw badges,but left the redbull ones? is he trying to show something?
http://forum-rallye.com/uploads/mont...1479905425.jpg
Red Bull is personal sponsor. Only a photoshop clean of VW logo. 4 stars of 4 championships of (co)drivers. Nothing special
I want to believe :D
RedBull World Rally Team I BELIEVE haha
With Ogier and Nasser Al-Attiyah
No one at Toyota test today?
when will be the last day to enter the rally montecarlo?
December 16th. Don't know date of manufacter entries number one nomination date
It would be nice to see a private team (BRR?) run the 2016 Polos, still with support from Red Bull and name it 'Red Bull Rally Academy' or something similar. They could give a home to upcoming drivers as a step between WRC2 and the new WRCars.
Yep, a RB WRT scenario seems to be a nice way to keep silly season exciting for a couple of weeks more! Probably it wouldn’t involve a change of rules (MSport isn’t a manu either), only a VW’s formal demand to FIA, expressing their consent as a proper manu...Quote:
Originally Posted by giu canbera
Honestly it all looks a bit unreal, like if it was possible for VW Motorpsort to sort out a last minute B plan and get VW’s board approval. Is it? Btw, has Ogier actually said he was going to test different cars or was that only suggested by the media/net?
Sebastien Ogier is expected to test a Ford Fiesta RS WRC for the first time later this week as he narrows down his 2017 World Rally Championship options.
Autosport understands the test will be in Wales or at the team's own facility in Greystoke forest, Cumbria.
M-Sport team principal Malcolm Wilson is determined to land Ogier for next season, having missed out on signing him in 2011.
Wilson told Autosport: "I'm willing to go to lengths I've not been to before to bring him here.
"I stand by what I've said before: this remains one of the best opportunities this company has ever had and I can't let it slip by.
"Sebastien knows what he wants and I absolutely respect that."
Ogier missed Monday's WRC Gala evening in Sydney, flying straight back to Europe just hours after Rally Australia finished in an effort to confirm a deal for next season.
Ogier and team-mates Jari-Matti Latvala and Andreas Mikkelsen were left without a 2017 drive when Volkswagen announced its withdrawal from the WRC earlier this month.
Though Ogier wants to test all four 2017 World Rally Cars before making a decision, his options appear limited.
Citroen is reportedly unwilling to allow Ogier to test its all-new C3 before he signs an agreement, and that contract remains very much dependent on the firm sourcing additional budget.
Hyundai also looks out of bounds.
Team boss Michel Nandan told Autosport: "He is a four-time world champion, of course I would talk to him, but the percentage of chance of getting him for next season is so small that it wouldn't be fair to our drivers to let him be in the car."
Ogier is expected to test a Toyota, but there is speculation that communication between the four-time champion and Tommi Makinen is becoming protracted.
Sources close to Latvala say the Finn, who remained in Australia on holiday after the rally, already has the offer of a contract from Toyota.
Ogier said: "I plan to test all the cars, to have as many cards in my hand to judge the best for my future. That's the target for now.
"There's a lot of rumours around, but all I can say is that I talk to a lot of people and at least I have this chance that a lot of people call me and want me in their team.
"I have made no decision."
Wilson has every confidence in his 2017 Fiesta.
"It was a clean sheet of paper and whatever the guys have wanted, they've had it," he said.
"It's been designed and built with complete freedom and exactly the right tools to do the job.
"Even if we don't get Sebastien for next season, I have to say that I am very excited about what's to come from this car."
Ogier admitted sitting out 2017 was possible but not likely.
"I don't put this option on top of the list, but it's not impossible," he told Autosport.
http://www.autosport.com/news/report...port-this-week
Ogier in M-Sport is likely 99% now
If Citroen is that french to not allow him to test their car and therefore gifting the best driver to an opponent just because they don't want to appear so desperate to take him, then yes, the chances for M-Sport are higher.Quote:
Originally Posted by Andre Oliveira
(French friends. I'm joking. Please don't feel offended) :)
First you bash the team for not making a deal public and then you bash journalist for making the deal public. I can't follow your thought.Quote:
Originally Posted by AL14
When I bashed a journalist for making the deal public?Quote:
Originally Posted by Hartusvuori
Citroen even managed to drive Loeb away,so I am not surprised by anything they do..Quote:
Originally Posted by AL14
Yes, the PSA managed to drive him to Peugeot.Quote:
Originally Posted by macebig
Taking Ogier’s quotes on Autosport as reliable, how can you be 99% sure he will sign for MSport before trying the other cars? Btw, Matton was reluctant to talk with Ogier, now he’s reluctant to allow him to test…I hope someone has already started cooking him a hat; maybe @EstWRC won’t be the only one taking a hat diet! ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Andre Oliveira
Still on the RB (unlikely) track, a Smeets talk to L’Équipe come out on a French forum: http://forum-rallye.com/index.php?/t...rci-vw/page-29
Smeets confirms ’16 cars renting program (!) and says there’s very little chance to see ’17 Polos rallying, but he doesn’t rule it out completely...
Cause my comment is not about Autosport article ;)
Btw, in Finland people don't have smartphones? If today test was in Portugal we would see a tons of photos ;)
Rally double world champion Marcus Grönholm is building a new future in motorsport top drivers, or rather the top considering entering.
Grönholm GRX Management Team Ltd has organized an open share issue, the purpose of which is to collect the pot in which young drivers start to move towards professionalism.
- Let's just say that the issue is gone semihyvin. In terms of volume is accompanied by a lot of people, about 250. There are approximately EUR 300 000 together now. The share issue will continue until the end of the year. The result is then what it is. After all, in a lot of money, but not for many years no one ajateta said Grönholm.
Offering a variety of packages are available. An individual, the preferred shares will pay EUR 197.
- There are 20 "godfather", who each put EUR 12,000. Just all I have not got yet the heap, but make sure you can, mulled Grönholm.
Marcus Grönholm, led driver built in the competition and long-term plan, which aims to professionalism.
- Next thing is a rally driver selection, and it is the most important thing. However, if the shareholders are supposed to get back some money sometimes, so we need a good rally driver. It has been since the beginning of this idea. The rally driver is a phase 1, Grönholm says.
Who is the driver, and in what series and how fleet driver comes to drive?
- It's a little secret yet. Yes go to the world, and it is being thought by the driver, is already done bit. That is all I can reveal.
GRX's camp have already been Joni Wiman (US Global Rally Cross) and Niclas Grönholm (Rally Cross).
- They've been a mess from the beginning, and they continue to team members. I must then consider what with them being invested. It is still a question mark.
upcoming election rally driver will be announced in the near future. The stakes are high, as the share issue prospectus according to the driver's objectives in the period 2018-2019 are already EUR 400 000 wage and salary income.
Grönholm operation is completed. He turned at the beginning of his own career with many stones and collection of compiling budgets. The final stage of all was no longer dependent on a single card. And the risk paid off, and he got a well-paid factory job as a driver. In addition, he helped mm. Kosti Katajamäki World Rally Championship.
- Yes, this was a great damn work with him. Yeah, pretty pins, but I did not remember at all that this is so laborious, Grönholm smirk.
http://urheiluuutiset.com/marcus-gro...etisti-duunia/
Mundial de Rallys @MundialdeRallys · 9m9 minutes ago
Hoy Ogier ha estado probando el Toyota Yaris WRC 2017
Today Ogier has been testing the Toyota Yaris WRC 2017
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cx94NsbWgAAA0mS.jpg
Miika Wuorela @MiikaWuorela · 2m2 minutes ago Tampere, Suomi
Seb Ogier had his Toyota test today. MSport soon to follow. Champion looking for a best option for 2017.
Teemu / Rallirinki @HartusvuoriWRC · 2m2 minutes ago
Sebastien Ogier's Toyota #YarisWRC test took place today in Spain. Propably no pictures will surface. These kind of tests are top secret.
Sébastien Ogier tests the Toyota Yaris in Catalonia
http://www.revistascratch.com/wrc/no...cataluna-35448
Barely without rest after the Rally of Australia, last race of the world-wide championship of rallies 2016, the present champion of the world has put to work facing the next season, in which until the moment has not yet decided in which equipment to pilot , Although it currently has several offers on the table. Thus, Ogier had the opportunity to try the Yaris today.
In a small test carried out in Catalonia, more specifically in the area of Tarragona, the former Volkswagen driver has had the opportunity to complete several kilometers of testing on both an asphalt stretch and another on land. The logistics of the team led by Makinen moved to Poblet in the morning, where they rolled on asphalt, while in the afternoon they moved to Bellprat, where they rolled over land.
His sensations just after getting out of the car were not quite good, since he confessed that the car still lacked a hard work of suspensions, although also has taken advantage to ensure that the potential of the vehicle created by Toyota Gazoo Racing is good. According to this medium, the Toyota brand would have put on the table a good offer that would be around ten million euros.
In the same week, the man to beat within the WRC is also expected to test the Ford Fiesta RS WRC of 2017 with the MSport team. The British team has been the most played during these weeks, although everything seems to indicate that Ogier will make a decision after testing all the vehicles, without ruling out that he can even get on the Citroën C3 WRC.