ΜΜ sells a brand new fiesta r5 mk2...hmmm...
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ΜΜ sells a brand new fiesta r5 mk2...hmmm...
https://twitter.com/eWRCresults/stat...85488165666818
Director of PSA Motorsport, Jean-Marc Finot told AUTOhebdo about the future of Citroën in the WRC, in the short and medium term.
Many rumors circulating about the future of Citroën - in the short and medium terms - in the World Rally Championship. The firm's participation in the chevrons for the 2020 season is mainly linked to Sébastien Ogier, whom Toyota is courting.
And for good reason, the presence in the team of the six-time world champion would guarantee the tricolor entity of title chances, especially as the new aerodynamic kit of the C3 WRC (designed by Oreca) would be satisfactory. On the other hand, a departure of the native of Gap for Toyota would sound the death knell of his participation in the coming exercise.
The WRC is thinking about hybridization. Promoting the hybrid via Peugeot in Endurance and Citroën in WRC does it make sense?
Hybridization of the WRC is planned for 2022. And sizing terms, at the level of motorsport, knowing that we already have the Formula E (with DS, Editor's note), we do not plan to take two large programs such as the WEC and the WRC. And the choice was to leave on the WEC. We will not engage in rally by 2022 with hybridization. That's the choice we took.
And in the short term?
We have discussions with Sébastien (Ogier, editor's note) about his participation in 2020. At this point, to talk about the different hypotheses would be to speculate.
Is the ball in Sébastien Ogier's court?
Our reference schedule was five years, as announced by Mr. Tavares (early 2017. Editor's note). And there are discussions going on for the 2020 season. There is no intention to suspend this program.
https://www.autohebdo.fr/wrc/actuali...22-207301.html
Hmm the interview with Finot makes me think of an interesting theory.....
Ogier started talking to Toyota and seeing than Citroen started to spread rumors of leaving
Now they are carefully crafting then towards "it depends on Ogier"
So if Ogier signs for Toyota he will get blamed by french people/press for Citroen leaving. Making this whole rumor a pressure tool for keeping him.
Or another related option is that they decided to leave already and now just try to blame it on Ogier.
I don't wanna sound negative, but the 5-year plan doesn't mean a thing IF the executives at Citroen/PSA want to terminate the program. VW had made a similar plan and commitment and we all know how that turned out.
An open plea to Ogier: please don't sign with Toyota!
You answered yourself.
1) You don't know what marketing value each series has for each manufacturer. Only they know.
2) If the series marketing value is low the first thing you shall do is not to think how to decrease the cost but how to increase the value because the value is what the manufacturers are searching for. They don't seek a cheap series which is basically useless for them.
The thing is that the wrc keeps its marketing value, even when the cars would be only halve as expensive.
When you limit costs, manufacturers, who want to win will still put in as much as they think is it worth, but smaller teams like m-sport have a bigger chance of keeping up.
No, because in the end, those 0.x seconds that makes one faster than the other one, cost the same..., maybe even more, because of the limitations.