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I think Fourmaux can count himself a but unlucky, of the five guys who had incidents, his was actually the smallest mistake and yet he has paid by far the biggest price for it.
From what we have...

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4 of them off…Tanak as well said he was very lucky.
To be honest, with the pace at the front all rally, it’s not a surprise something happened.

I don’t blame him so much for the performance, of course I think he should be better than he is showing, but I do blame him for picking the Hyundai programme over the MSport one. He chose this...

I fear Mikkelsen has made a grave error taking the part programme on tarmac with Hyundai over the full season with MSport.
No seat time and poor road position on all rallies, bad recipe.

1 Neuville 2 Tanak 3 Ogier 4 Evans 5 Fourmaux 6 Mikkelsen 7 Katsuta 8 Munster doubled1978

It’s a tactic as old as time, announce a plan that the teams really don’t want and negotiate back to the point you really wanted to get to in the first place.

I think the ‘real’ aims of the discussions will become evident soon enough. For me I suspect the FIA/Promoter want the teams to commit to running more cars in the short term to keep the rules stable....

I think MSport and Fourmaux have between them had a good plan and good execution for the first 3 rallies. It was really important he made a good start and no mistakes for the confidence. I don’t...

It looked to me he was much more to the middle of the road than that. It almost looked like the outside, loaded up front wishbone dug in and it lifted the car and sent him into the bank and finished...

1 Rovanpera 2 Tanak 3 Lappi 4 Neuville 5 Evans 6 Fourmaux 7 Katsuta 8 Solberg doubled1978

Why do you think that it would kill regional customer Rally2? Genuinely interested to know.

Great for Lappi, really pleased for him. I always like to see the underdog do well and we had Fourmaux up there as well, unexpectedly I would say.

The points thing is a bit of mess, I understand...

To be fair he was also really lucky to miss Tanak on Friday when Tanak was nearly stopped on the exit of a fast corner after his crash.

He said in the interview at the end he thought that Munster was off in the corner before so I presume he assumed Munster had got the car out and then realised too late that he was still in the bank...

Yes, he’s been excellent so far.
I’ve said before, this lad has got the minerals. He had a torrid 2022 when everything snowballed away from him, but got himself together last year and has so far...

Even my wife who doesn’t really pay any attention to rally, watched the footage from tonight and said it was really cool with the night stage in the snow.

But would you replace him with Suninen on Tarmac where Mikkelsen is mainly being used? I wouldn’t.

Of course, I completely agree that there is always the possibility of the upside as well as the downside.
However, I don’t think it will ever happen again in the main series because the tyre supply...

Every top tier series except SuperGT disagrees with you. Turns out car manufactures don’t want their multi million motorsport programme to live or die on the capability of their tyre supplier.
You...

Exactly, tyre wars are a thing of the past generally due to the costs involved.

I hope so, it usually throws a few spanner’s in the works when things like this change.
i just hope the tyres are reliable in the sense that we don’t see a whole host of punctures that make the...

It’s very evident that even we, the supposed ‘real’ rally fans that are more than casual observers, can’t even come close to agreeing a way forward for WRC, so why would the FIA/Promoter listen to...

1 Rovanpera 2 Tanak 3 Neuville 4 Lappi 5 Evans 6 Fourmaux 7 Katsuta 8 Munster doubled1978

Almost zero chance I would think. Rossi is a BMW factory driver in the WEC and GTWCE currently, so putting all his energies into that.

Yes, and I don’t recall ever feeling that they weren’t quick enough or noisy enough when I went to watch them. Just having them rev higher than the previous 2l cars made them sound ok.