Loeb joining will hopefully take a bit of the attention and pressure off Breen, at least on Monte-Carlo.
If Loeb stays longer then it will give Breen great back-up as well as someone to learn from on events he hasn't done much.
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Loeb joining will hopefully take a bit of the attention and pressure off Breen, at least on Monte-Carlo.
If Loeb stays longer then it will give Breen great back-up as well as someone to learn from on events he hasn't done much.
There will be more events for Loeb - no doubt. Once the business side is sorted.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
Not necessarilyQuote:
Originally Posted by spiderem
3 of those 4 cars are partly or fully paid by non-MSport funding.
If both Loeb and the car in general will do bad in Monte I think Loeb's desire to do more events quickly diminishes. Though even in that worst case he'd probably want to try some gravel.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lancia Stratos
But I expect that at least at Monte the cars shouldn't be far away from each other.
And with that, every WDC in the modern WRC has appeared in an official capacity with Ford colours... Only exception Burnsie.
TänakQuote:
Originally Posted by macebig
Ogier
Loeb
Solberg
Grönholm
Mäkinen
McRae
Auriol
Sainz
Biasion
Kankkunen
Blomqvist
Mikkola
Vatanen
Waldegård
Only Burns, Salonen and Röhrl missing?
Rohrl drove a Ford Germany Capri in the pre WRC era.
https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/the-s...eb-now-leaves/Quote:
Originally Posted by AnttiL
Hi Luke! :)
LOL! Dirtfish is here.
Ιts not the first time we see an article at Dirtfish,after some days we have discuused here
Same goes for rallit.fi and our Finnish rally forum (or twitter banter). :DQuote:
Originally Posted by dimviii
They are only "journalists" you can't expect too much from them. It's not like it's their job to come up with article ideas and do research.Quote:
Originally Posted by dimviii
They did an article based on Power Stage stats of eWRC-results.com too.
While this statistic may be true, sadly, hardly any of them have been WDC *while wearing* Ford colors.Quote:
Originally Posted by macebig
Didn’t have time to comment on Foumeaux-Loeb deal.
Quite a good thing that a young guy like Fourmaux, without family money or background (even if there is RB’s backing), is able to come to a full-time seat. Not enough for sure but better than nothing.
On Loeb, skeptical on my side (I think a deal with Mikkelsen with both Rally1 and Rally2 drives would have been better for M-Sport) but still, if RB pays for it...
The good thing is that M-Sport has a 4th car as soon as Monte Carlo so we can hope to see it a lot this year. For non-European rallies, it will be expensive so the most probable is the Australian noname driver (I don’t remember his name) but we can hope to see some good drivers in European rallyes in this car (Huttunen, Mikkelsen, why not a 2nd chance for Loubet even if I’m not a fan, Rossel, ...); let’s hope this more than Prokop, Bertelli, ... (ok for them in a 5th car).
Acropolis?
Pic of Dimitris Chatzoukalis
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FHnix5mW...g&name=900x900
Also in Kenia he would be an optionQuote:
Originally Posted by Andre Oliveira
He can drive wherever he chooses to. But it will not be for manufacturer points.Quote:
Originally Posted by wwbroe
Acropolis would be logical only because he’s Greek.
2022 Greensmith's big year (interview):
https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/green...eady-for-2022/
Target for Greensmith should be P6 in the championship this year. Should beat all part timers and Katsuta at minimum.
Yep it should be his target, but I'd be surprised to see him beat Lappi, and also Katsuta and Fourmaux.Quote:
Originally Posted by macebig
My personal opinion is it’s more important for him to show some actual speed this year rather than just be consistently average. I wish him the best, but I think he needs to show something we haven’t really seen yet, actually something similar to what Katsuta did last year. Some good speed, a podium and some consistency, hopefully for him without the mid season slump Katsuta had.Quote:
Originally Posted by macebig
Would appear he had a better year than I remember it, missing out on the fastest stage time by less than a second on six occasions. To be fair he was never blown away by any of his teammates.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
Greensmith says about Arctic
Greensmith's best stage time was 9th. Basically always the slowest WRC, except for SS2 where Ogier had road cleaning issues and SS10 where Loubet spun.Quote:
Although the result wasn’t great, the performance relative to Teemu [Suninen] who’s fought for wins in those conditions before was actually very strong
It's true that the Fiestas were often the two slowest WRC's, especially on the very fast stages, but Suninen managed to get to 4th on two stages and be clearly faster than Greensmith on a number of stages, like SS9 where Suninen lost 13.9s, Greensmith 24.6s.
The closest Greensmith got to a stage win was Portugal SS1 (0.5s). There's also other good stage positions in Portugal and Safari, but always losing by several seconds. And in many occasions Fourmaux was faster than him, even on gravel.
I really hope the Puma is as quick or quicker than the two others. Would be much more exiting with 3 potential winning cars.
Greensmith may not be world champion material, but you can't take away that he made big strides up this year. If he continues along the same slop, he will become relevant with the big guys. Fingers crossed for him.Quote:
Originally Posted by AnttiL
Breen boyant after Puma tests...
https://www.wrc.com/en/news/2021/wrc...er-puma-tests/
'When you’ve picked up a World Rally Car from the bottom of a Méxican lake and made it work the next day, fixing one that’s tumbled down a mountain is no problem for M-Sport.
It was an all-nighter, but the Ford Puma Rally1 Hybrid that Craig Breen crashed on Wednesday is back on the road in the hands of Gus Greensmith on Thursday.
“I’m surprised you’re surprised,” said team principal Richard Millener. “This is what we do."
https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/m-spo...r-breen-crash/
The spaceframe cars shall be much easier to repair than the steel bodyshells. I'm not surprised.
Red Bull on all M-SPORT cars !
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FJKI8o2X...jpg&name=large
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FJKI8ptW...jpg&name=large
That's crazy! What a livery.. Hat off, hands down!
Gorgeous livery tbf
Nice!!
Every year they win!
Awesome livery
The best. Beautifull colours, connection with eletric part,... very cool.
Raiden Shogun approves..
Genshin reference aside, that livery is electrifying..
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Looks great. Bravo
Would've liked that blue livery with huge Ford bagdes but hey although too much colour for my taste it's still the best livery out of those three teams. RedBull suits almost on every car
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