Yes, this is correct, Renault Sport is thinking of making a N4 car Megane but it will be 2wd.....Quote:
Originally Posted by HaCo
Lets hope they change it to R4 when the WMSC takes the decision on 8 Sept :D
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Yes, this is correct, Renault Sport is thinking of making a N4 car Megane but it will be 2wd.....Quote:
Originally Posted by HaCo
Lets hope they change it to R4 when the WMSC takes the decision on 8 Sept :D
2011 rules should be announced at the WMSC Extraordinary Meeting, Friday Sept 10th.
Might be announced today?Quote:
Originally Posted by bt52b
Motors TV reports Dani Sordo has signed for 2011 with the junior Citroen Team.
Also Ken Block will do a full season in 2011 (with Monster Ford)
Good for them..
I known that Monster was interested to make a full-season two-car team in 2011, but I guess there's no enough budget. Pity. :(Quote:
Originally Posted by alleskids
Anyway, it's always interesting to have a full-time squad on the field!
Hopefully they can announce someone for that second seat in the Monster World Rally TeamQuote:
Originally Posted by Motorsportfun
I expect Petter to be DS3T-ing next year? If Citroen Norway get their way.
so you have read the Autosport article as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by noel157
Citroen sales up 67% in Norway since PS been a Citroen driver, and Citroen Norway chief very keen.
Was it in the magazine? I don't get it so I guess I saw it somewhere online.Quote:
Originally Posted by MJW
Let's just hope he get's the car.
It may have more to do with general economical revival after the crisis than with PSWRT but anyway good for Petter.Quote:
Originally Posted by MJW
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Originally Posted by 'Mirek Fric [Cze
i dont know about that, we in norway hasen't got the economic crisis so hard as rest of europe. petter is nr 1 in marketing of cars in norway. no'one is even close. when he won in 2004, subaru sold over 40% more cars in norway as in 2003, and that year was much better than 2002. so i belive it is petters "fault" that citroen in norway sell more cars. so every brand that want to sell cars in norway want a petter to be theire face here.
When Petter won in 2003 you mean? ;)
p33Quote:
Originally Posted by noel157
Citroen Norway's Oystein Johansen "...we are 100 percent committed for next year."
I'm sure that Mad Croc too will be involved. Solberg made Mad Croc a dream come true: sell the cans to IKEA! They didn't reach the goal in 10 years, Solberg did in a couple of months!!! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by bt52b
Thanks, good to see that Petter has the right people behind him.Quote:
Originally Posted by bt52b
I'm wondering with the cars starting from a clean sheet of paper, would a "customer" such as Petter be subject to the same ECU mapping issues in the DS3 as the C4, i.e. equal cars but equal to a certain point
difficult to say... the thing for 2011 is that all the cars is the same evolution.. same spec.. If Citröen and Ford decides to give the factory boys some extra electronic boost.. no one can stop them.. really..
then they have to make ECU's to all the cars.. Give them to FiA, and then Fia gives em sealed to the cars...
At first most new cars will be equal, but then the development will go first to the 'works' drivers.
M-Sport talks of having up to 10 Fiesta WRC ready, Citroën 4 DS3 but there is demand for more , so lets see what happens
Citroen will only have 4 DS3 WRCars, so Petter has to wait a long time. His other option is Ford.
1 Loeb 2 Ogier - Total team
3 Sordo 4 Raikkonen - Red Bull team
Who will have the first ten Fiesta WRcars?
1 Hirvonen 2 Latvalla - BP team
3 Wilson jr - Stobart Ford
4 Al Qassimi - Abu Dhabi team (or has the sponsor deal expired?)
5 Villagra - Munchi's ford
6 Block - Monster Ford
7 ?
8 ?
9 ?
10 ?
Prodrive wil only do a limited number of rallies to devellop the car, but still sell it to a number of privateers, one of them being Adapt (either for Ostberg or a custumer)?
Henning...
I wouldn't be so sure.Quote:
Originally Posted by alleskids
i am 101% sure that they are going to be much more than 4 cars.Quote:
Originally Posted by 'Mirek Fric [Cze
claiming that citroen will start the season with 4 cars is stupid...are you guys living in La La land ??? 4 cars is nothing for an official manufacturer team...even if their intention is to run 2 cars in the season there is absolutely no chance they are going to have just 2 cars to spare...
I don't know what is worse spreading such imbecile things around or believing them...so if solberg or any other guy comes with some millions and wants a car citroen will actually say...its ok keep those millions we are rich enough and we are running 4 cars this year.....come back to reality and use your head !!!!!
I believe there will be 6, possibly 7, chassis ready for Sweden.
As for factory cars being the same spec as customer cars? No way, there'll be a difference from the very start.
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Originally Posted by noel157
Citroen had many years a no custumer pollicy, were M-Sport was living from sellling rally cars. So keeping the DS3 WRCars for them self is not so stupid to believe. Citroen is only in WRC to promote their own team, not for selling rallycars. It was for years a 1-driver team: Total Loeb World Rally Team, now it is a Total Sebastien World Rally Team. For sure Citroen can build 7 cars before the 2011 WRc season, the question is, will they be willing to sell/rent one or more to a tough competitor?
Citroen junior team has been fined 6000 EUR for breaking, for a second time, the testing regulations laid down in WRC. The number of testing sessions was exceeded.
That's ridiculous penalty. If there is some rule breaking, the penalty should be at least a bit painful, this is just a joke.
If factory cars would be different from the start related to customers cars, you could read it in the classification papers (FIA)? Or couldn´t you?
Yeah, they were counting the test days not the number of sessions. They tried to apologize that kimi had back pain and he had to miss one test session and they didn't count it. But rules are rules and they have to count both, sessions and days (they thought that they still had that day when kimi had his back pain, but they were run out of their allowed number of test sessions, so basically they lost one day).Quote:
Originally Posted by 'Mirek Fric [Cze
Novikov is in talks with Citroen & Ford about place in Citroen Junior Team or Stobart Ford. That`s why I think your table is wrong :)Quote:
Originally Posted by alleskids
Ketomaa also is supposed to drive on the highest level next year, if things goes as planned, sofar they have.
Yep, the easy part is to win rallys ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Tomi
Lol, it looks like that yes, now it's just to find sponsor money :)Quote:
Originally Posted by A.F.F.
Citroen is keen to keep Raikkonen (and Red Bull) for next year, so the Junior team looks full booked with Sordo already transfered to the second team. Citroen has to hurry up with building more then the 4 cars for their own teams, otherwise all drivers with budget will go to FordQuote:
Originally Posted by Xsara Fan
That is what I meant earlier, the 'plan' was 4 DS3 cars but now the demand for more is there, and who in this current climate turns down business ? :DQuote:
Originally Posted by alleskids
Kimi Raikkonen is making a fresh bid to return to Formula 1 next year after approaching the Renault team for a drive in 2011, AUTOSPORT can reveal.
Although it had looked likely that Raikkonen would remain in the World Rally Championship next year after his switch of discipline for this season, AUTOSPORT has learned that Raikkonen has renewed his interest in getting back to grand prix racing.
Sources have revealed that in the wake of Renault's impressive form at the Belgian Grand Prix, Raikkonen approached the French car manufacturer with the intent of putting a deal together.
It is not clear, however, whether Raikkonen spoke to Renault himself or if it was done through his management team.
Raikkonen has always insisted that he would only come back to F1 if he was in a competitive car - and that is something that Renault now appears to be able to offer him.
But despite Raikkonen's credentials, Renault is in no rush to advance talks with him - and it is still holding on for current driver Vitaly Petrov to prove he can deliver what the team is demanding of him.
Renault team principal Eric Boullier confirmed that Raikkonen had approached the team - and is in contention for a seat alongside Robert Kubica in 2011.
"It is true that the summer has passed and we have had more and more requests - and the guy you mentioned [Raikkonen] is on the radar now," Boullier told AUTOSPORT.
"He is on the radar because he contacted us."
Boullier has long said that the team will keep Petrov next year if the Russian can improve his consistency throughout a whole race weekend - and not make silly errors like his spin in qualifying in Spa and blocking Timo Glock in qualifying at Monza.
When asked what Petrov had to do to convince Renault that he is a better option than Raikkonen, Boullier said: "He is not very far away to be honest.
"It is still very complicated for him to have a complete weekend and be faultless, and that is where he needs to work and focus on, and develop clearly his commitment and dedication."
One of the attractions of Petrov is the commercial possibilities he opens up in Russia, and Boullier said Renault would have to change its approach if it decided to take the Raikkonen route.
"It would be a different strategy for the team," he said. "And that is not a question of personality or having a world championship title - it will cost me more if he is world champion than if he is not. It is not a question of this - it is a different strategy.
"You work differently if you have a rookie - and in supporting him - than if you have two experienced drivers. So it is different.
"We need to think about it. But the priority is Vitaly, and to see how he will develop. If we are convinced then we will keep him definitely. This is the first option.
But there are several other options, and one of them is Kimi."
Boullier said he expected a decision on Renault's 2011 driver line-up to be made before the end of the season.
Contact btw Renault and Raikkonens side has been there for some time, but I would prefer to keep him in Rally, but he can come back in the GT class after a potential F1 Stunt ! Would suit him I think !
It`s not my fantasy. I talk to Novikov 2 weeks ago. I work at his team.Quote:
Originally Posted by alleskids