Any news or rumors about Skoda WRC project?
What about Proton?
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Any news or rumors about Skoda WRC project?
What about Proton?
Interested to see that will there be any wrc cars on the Autoglym Rally. Same weekend as that Estonian rally. Seemingly teams will go there. Could be fun to see that rally aswell, though Autoglym would be cool since it is so close to where I live.
That's what I thought about immediately. While Paddon was fastest Hyundai also the year before, the difference between Tanak and his teammates was somewhat surprising. Especially when Latvala was so fast the year before.
Breen didn't have a good rally though, but it was mostly due to the early mistake on friday which put him into road cleaning position.
He used his RE setup and the results was there. His pace was for sure magnificent like it has been in recent time, but still hewas humiliating his teammates, at their home event, which they both were leadingin 2017.
Finland was where I was expecting the 3 to be closest, specially since the differences are often quite small there (in terms of seconds). In the end up to that point of the season it was kind of the biggest (unexpected) outclassing. It was definitely not the same all year, early on Latvala or Tanak were often out before you could compare anything and Lappi was doing those rallies for first time in wrc (sometimes even for the first time ever). After Finland there were big differences in Germany and GB but not really in Spain and certainly not in Australia or Turkey.
Off course it's impossible to say how important Rally Estonia was for that, but it's a fact that he did it and the others did not.
With all honesty I'm super happy for Estonians to have this event. You have a star driver and a lot of enthusiasm for the sport and at this moment it's impossible to get a WRC round. Having this promotional event is a great solution for you. I say this even though it means Autoglym rally which runs very close to my home won't have WRC teams. :)
But I still can't agree that Tänak found his 2018 pace only through testing in Rally Estonia.