Situation:
Kalle Rovanperä is driving Monte-Carlo with Fabia R5 from TGS (Toni Gardemaister Sport)
is he ?
WRC2 PRO ?
WRC2 ?
not allowed to score any other than Overall Top10 poins ?
How do you read rules ?
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Situation:
Kalle Rovanperä is driving Monte-Carlo with Fabia R5 from TGS (Toni Gardemaister Sport)
is he ?
WRC2 PRO ?
WRC2 ?
not allowed to score any other than Overall Top10 poins ?
How do you read rules ?
He said he is not into the title, just experience so he will be ready for WRC seat for 2020. If not he doesn't mind if he will be in WRC2 a few more years. He isn't in rush.
Entering for WRC2 would make sense, even if it's only for a better starting number/position and priority in shakedown.
Yes, that is also my idea - you can enter 7 rounds in WRC2 and 7 in WRC2 Pro and win both titles...
8.2.1 In order to score points in the WRC 2 Pro Championship for Manufacturers, Drivers and Co-Drivers, a Manufacturer must register with the FIA before the closing date of entries of the first rally entered. Registration in the WRC 2 Pro Championships is set at €150,000. Any manufacturer registered as per Art. 7.2 does not need to pay the individual WRC 2 Pro Championships fee for Manufacturers.
And what will happen if there will be WRC 2 Pro registration of Toyota Gazoo WRT with Katsuta and Fiesta R5? :D
What if Toyota uses Skoda as their wrc2 team and Katsuta would be driving the 3rd Skoda? :rolleyes:
A big manufacturer using services of one of their biggest EU competitors in the market....not going to happen. Even using another make privately without its badge sounds fishy.
But there is question, what exactly it is "works team". For example last years starts of Rovanpera, Veiby and Nordgren with cars from Wevers...
...and Citroen WRC2 program was run by PHSport, Huttunen i20 was serviced by Sarrazin Motorsport, etc. That's not a big deal to have private teams runing under manus entries. It's been done for ages.
There is no manufacturer title for WRC2. Why shall any works team pretend to be a privateer to take a trophy which doesn't exist?
On the other side, did anyone knew that there was manufacturer title for WRC2 in past years? Nobody takes care about it, only Skoda used it in some promo materials...
PSRX (VW SWEDEN) is out from WRX.
Kristoffesson has PoloR5 (another is coming very soon)
Solberg has PoloR5
Do the math...
Katsuta will do Monte (non-WRC2), Sweden, Corsica, Argentina, Chile, Portugal, Sardegna, Finland, Deutschland, Turkey, Wales and Spain
https://www.motorsport.com/world-rx/...2019-/4314842/
according to this, Østberg is, in addition to his WRX plans, "also closing on a deal to drive in WRC2 next year"
Veiby with polo r5 by BRR for Monte - Sweden
Jonas Andersson co driver
His old co driver with Kristoffersson
https://ocveiby.com/monte-carlo-and-...new-co-driver/
Sp maybe Emil Axelsson back as co-driver for Pontus? Should be doing good to him.
Kristoffersson testing polo at snow
https://www.facebook.com/tommy.krist...5001075663300/
"New challenges..." says Tommy, Johans´father.
Škoda Motorsport asked some of the national champions what will they do in 2019. Nikolay Gryazin, Sylvain Michel and Erik Pietarinen answered to do WRC2. Burak Cukurova said 2 WRC2 events are possible.
https://www.skoda-motorsport.com/en/...e-2019-season/
Weird, no works Skoda entered for Monte Carlo WRC2 Pro
Kalle is driving TGS Skoda R5 in Monte so I guess the team skips it.