VW News 2012 & WRC 2013

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Originally Posted by Wim_Impreza

Kopecký wasn't bad in a private Fabia WRC in the WRC and he has beaten factory drivers there. He was 5th overall in a WRC event with the private Fabia WRC, no other private driver can say that he has done this with that car and has beaten other tarmac experts François Duval and Gilles Panizzi when they also drove the same car in 2006. Even the factory drivers in a Fabia WRC had a 5th place as best result in a WRC round.

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It wasn't same car. There was still some development ongoing in CRT with several homologations up to 2007 (You can check it on FIA website). AFAIK no other cars ever had these new parts except those of Kopecký.

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Originally Posted by mousti

Offcourse u want to defend it. But he's at his peak he has no growth marge so he's no use for the VW team because they want winners or drivers who have the potential to win alot in the future!

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He won as much IRC rounds in 2011 as the IRC champion Mikkelsen and also as much as Neuville...

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Originally Posted by Mirek

It wasn't same car. There was still some development ongoing in CRT with several homologations up to 2007 (You can check it on FIA website). AFAIK no other cars ever had these new parts except those of Kopecký.

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Fact remains that in a private team he achieved far more than the factory team drivers did in the past. But then the factory management at the time was poor and the drivers weren't very good either....

Maybe he might do a couple of tests in the Polo to give VW another perspectiive as he didn't do a bad job developing the Fabia S2000, but I can't see him getting a factory drive. Would clearly be a different story if he was German!

IMO Kopecky would be capable of doing some very good results in WRC, but only on certain events (ie. Germany and Catalunya)

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Originally Posted by Wim_Impreza

He won as much IRC rounds in 2011 as the IRC champion Mikkelsen and also as much as Neuville...

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U don't listen, the guy is at his peak! He has no progress, the guy is almost 30 has much more experience than Neuville who's 23. Who's still learning, and showed he has great growth progress. He has still the potential, Jan hasn't. If Juho seems almost being sidelined by VW, do u think seriously Jan has a chance then.

Well if u do, take those Pink Glasses with the name Kopecky on it, off your head and aknowledge what the reality is..

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any videos of the test?

I can confirm that in the Rally Finnskog, it was Rieger on the car to Andreas M.

In Finnskog it wasn't VW car ;)

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