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9th November 2018, 19:15
Thread: [WRC] News & Rumours 2018
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Anybody watch the Australia preview? There's a...
Anybody watch the Australia preview? There's a segment where they're talking about an FIA delegation sent to Japan. In the film we can see the Japanese, Ciesla, Mouton, LEHTINEN, a few others, but no...
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23rd June 2018, 07:37
Thread: [WRC] News & Rumours 2018
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I want to be really cynical and nasty and point...
I want to be really cynical and nasty and point out that it's not the real Safari without open roads and helicopters and 6000km over a week. I want to, but I can't. I'm just too happy that the...
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15th June 2018, 15:41
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Ogier is a smart guy and he definitely knows how...
Ogier is a smart guy and he definitely knows how much he's worth. That said, I would be amazed if he were to go to Citroen for anything short of "never have to work again" money. Maybe not even then....
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14th June 2018, 08:23
Thread: [WRC] News & Rumours 2018
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As I recall, Tanak had a reputation for being...
As I recall, Tanak had a reputation for being pretty inadequate on tarmac until relatively recently. Some people are slow learners, but their maximum potential may be higher than the fast learners....
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13th June 2018, 19:46
Thread: [WRC] News & Rumours 2018
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If Pierre Budar actually thinks that Citroen will...
If Pierre Budar actually thinks that Citroen will be able to be competitive when they have even less time to work out the problems with their car, then Pierre Budar is a moron.
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13th June 2018, 18:59
Thread: [WRC] News & Rumours 2018
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Because the FIA is run by worthless economic...
Because the FIA is run by worthless economic illiterates and they don't understand that testing is the cheapest way to improve your car. So they continually fall prey to the Toto Wolffs and Jost...
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27th May 2018, 11:27
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Speaking of F1 drivers switching to rally, a...
Speaking of F1 drivers switching to rally, a couple of years ago Daniil Kvyat was quoted as saying that he would love to move into WRC at some point. He once tested a Group B car and said it was a...
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20th March 2018, 13:32
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Wow. It finally makes sense. The teams have...
Wow. It finally makes sense. The teams have literally been paying these "journalists" the whole time to ensure nothing bad is ever said about anything the teams do. No wonder everything they say is...
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16th March 2018, 19:43
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What's the excuse when the terrain is billiard...
What's the excuse when the terrain is billiard table flat, like Sweden?
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16th March 2018, 15:37
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And yet for all the interference they generate,...
And yet for all the interference they generate, no one seems to be able to get a reliable, high-quality signal from them. Live onboards have been spotty at best, the live timing is constantly broken,...
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13th February 2018, 00:22
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Anybody who's ever looked at the codebase for...
Anybody who's ever looked at the codebase for WRC+ can tell it's amateur hour over there. Heck, even the site design for wrc.com looks like something a high schooler made on Microsoft Frontpage 15...
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11th January 2018, 23:38
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Interesting that Hyundai put the 2017 mirrors on...
Interesting that Hyundai put the 2017 mirrors on this show car rather than the 2018 ones, which are a carbon copy of the Toyota mirrors.
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11th January 2018, 13:59
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Sordo goes to Argentina but not Paddon? That's an...
Sordo goes to Argentina but not Paddon? That's an odd choice.
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2nd January 2018, 21:33
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I just want to highlight this quote from today's...
I just want to highlight this quote from today's Autosport that really sums up the genius of this idea:
"We do not exclude shortening the rallies, but I see it in the bigger strategic context with... -
21st December 2017, 00:00
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...what is the point of having more, but shorter,...
...what is the point of having more, but shorter, rallies? The cost to the teams is for all intents and purposes the same whether the rally runs for a day or a week. Whose money are they saving? The...
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7th December 2017, 11:22
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Sadly, the only way to get it accepted by this...
Sadly, the only way to get it accepted by this generation of bureaucrats and nancy boys is to run it on relatively short, private, closed roads. So basically all of the expense of the old Safari (and...
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5th December 2017, 15:21
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I think Lehtinen is all but confirmed for the...
I think Lehtinen is all but confirmed for the position, which is good, because he is a proper rally man. But then, Mahonen also was a proper rally man, and was really right about some things, even as...
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5th December 2017, 03:42
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The size and mass of a family saloon, combined...
The size and mass of a family saloon, combined with the aesthetics of a hatchback.
I can't think of anything worse than that.
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Good to see him back in a Skoda, his Octavia WRC days jumped to my mind immediately :D
[WRC] Vodafone Rally de Portugal...