Good he will have the new car at least.
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2h left before entries close. (closes 6PM local time)
Still many open questions:
Östberg with WRC or R5
Huttunen with ???
M-Sport:
WRC2 PRO Greensmith and ???
Who is 4th new Fiesta R5 driver ?
How many JWRC ?
Most important question is: How many entries totally ?
Support event VETOMIES has 115 entries now and entry will close at midnight. Organisation have already informed that they can´t take all of those.
http://urheiluuutiset.com/vviime-vuo...a-jyvaskylaan/
Finnish, usually reliable, website reporting that Östberg has been entered with a C3 WRC. No WRC2Pro entry from Citroen for Finland.
I hope Mads does well obviously, but I also hope Lappi doesn't get trounced by him. That's the last thing Lappi needs, but Finland is all about confidence and he is in short supply of that right now
Entrylist will be published Friday 5th July.
All will be revelled on Friday...……..
In a way it's pretty bad situation for Østberg as well, similar to what we talked about if Paddon got picked to drive just one rally.
Since he did extremely well in C3 last year he can basically only do worse than that (beating Tanak in Toyota in Finland in current form doesn't look realistic). So basically Østberg can only loose reputation with anything worse than 3rd-4th place. At the same time if he does manage 5th or better he certainly hopes for at least a GB start so that he could be in the running for 3rd car next year. If he only does well in Finland (like last year) it's not very likely he will be picked for multiple rounds.
Anyway with Østberg (probably) in the list of people that are likely to finish ahead of Neuville is getting very long by now, specially with the typical low amount of retirements: Tanak, Latvala, Meeke, Ogier, Østberg, Lappi, Suninen, Evans and likely at least one of his two teammates due to start position.
Doing well after his circumstances...
Of course people know his situation and assess him from that.
Unlike Paddon, he has been doing wrc2 and i would think the same tactics like Hyundai will do with Breen will be applied.
I´m expecting press releases tomorrow...
Prepare for some surprises...
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