[WRC] News & rumours (part II)

[Tomi]

It this serious ????

dont you think its good?

[urabus-denoS2000]

Chinese rally champion ... Does he perhaps have a name of somekind , or any info ???

[GigiGalliNo1]

Chinese rally champion ... Does he perhaps have a name of somekind , or any info ???

Like I posted before WRC.com reports.

http://wrc.com/news/wilson-backs-liu...eed/?fid=13876

Next time I'll post link first haha

[Andre Oliveira]

Armindo Araujo 4 times Portuguese champion, one with Saxo kit car against 4wd cars... 1 time PWRC champion e almost this year.

But Portugal don't have the power of chinese economy...

Armindo deserves one oportunity

Money talks.

MUNCHIS is owned by Perez Companc (the driver that was) and his brother is co-driving the Villagra car (they are buddies). So it is just for fun nothing else.

[ProRally]

MUNCHIS is owned by Perez Companc (the driver that was) and his brother is co-driving the Villagra car (they are buddies). So it is just for fun nothing else.

And Companc family have HUGE bank account, with in euro or usd at least 9 zero's....

So yes, they both have fun Luis first in WRC then FIA GT and this year LMS series, his brother still co-drives in in WRC and good to see people like that having fun.

They go to the events in their private Boeing 737BBJ or G5 which we see a lot at the airports of the events. That put things in perspective.

[OldF]

Jarmo Mahonen’s first move.

The one decision he has already made is for former World Rally Champion co-driver Robert Reid to become his vice-president.

http://www.maxrally.com/news/entry/n...ont_be_rushed/

[NaBUru38]

Calendar 2011 SWRC ( 7 out of 8 results count)
6th March Mexico
16th April Jordan
8th May Italy
19th June Greece
31st July Finland
21st August Germany
2nd October France
23rd October Spain

PWRC 2011 Calendar ( 6 out of 7 resuslts count)
13th February Sweden
27th March Portugal
29th May Argentina
31st July Finland
11th September Australia
23rd October Spain
13th November United Kingdom

In 2010, the SWRC and PWRC raced together 9 times, and the SWRC had an extra 10th race next to the JWRC. Four of them were far from Europe: Mexico, Jordan, New Zealand and Japan. That's a nice number for a world championship

In 2011, they have two races less, and just two far from Europe. It's yet another psudo-European world championship. At least the races were picked right: Mexico and Jordan the SWRC (Ford builds the Fiesta in Mexico), Argentina and Australia the PWRC (as usual). In addition, the PWRC doesn't race in Greece or Jordan, whereas they had two races in the region in 2008 and 2009 and one in 2010. I admit that not making the SWRC start in Sweden and finish in Britain like the WRC and PWRC is a mistake too.

Another issue is the three clashes between the SWRC and the IRC: Mexico / Alerces (both in Latin America!), Canarias / Jordan (not too bad, many would drop them anyway) and the plainly ridiculous Corsica / Sardinia metres within!!!

[Hartusvuori]

Rally Finland's organization AKK Sports is planning to run a super special stage in Lahti next year. Lahti's city goverment will discuss the offer on their meeting next Monday. AKK Sports is waiting for the reply in November. The SSS would run in a horse track.

This is clearly a move to reach more commercial audience from capital Helsinki that doesn't want to travel to Jyväskylä to see WRC. Lahti is a bit over one hour motorway drive away from Helsinki (110 km) and also there's a good train connection between the cities. Lahti is however more than 2 hours drive away (170 km) from Rally HQ Jyväskylä so for the true(er) rally fans this could mean no SSS. Or perhaps they're planning to run Lahti SSS on Thursday evening and Laajavuori SSS on Friday evening, who knows. At least that sounds there won't be any proper stages on Thursday like it have wished now that the rally turned into a 2-day format. There are good roads for stages near Lahti, but - that would be too much to ask, I guess.

But this is only at the planning level right now - no decissions made yet. But these at the ideas the newly named FIA chairman of rally comission Jarmo Mahonen generates.

http://yle.fi/alueet/keski-suomi/201...n_2125365.html

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Rally Finland's organization AKK Sports is planning to run a super special stage in Lahti next year. Lahti's city goverment will discuss the offer on their meeting next Monday. AKK Sports is waiting for the reply in November. The SSS would run in a horse track.

This is clearly a move to reach more commercial audience from capital Helsinki that doesn't want to travel to Jyväskylä to see WRC. Lahti is a bit over one hour motorway drive away from Helsinki (110 km) and also there's a good train connection between the cities. Lahti is however more than 2 hours drive away (170 km) from Rally HQ Jyväskylä so for the true(er) rally fans this could mean no SSS. Or perhaps they're planning to run Lahti SSS on Thursday evening and Laajavuori SSS on Friday evening, who knows. At least that sounds there won't be any proper stages on Thursday like it have wished now that the rally turned into a 2-day format. There are good roads for stages near Lahti, but - that would be too much to ask, I guess.

But this is only at the planning level right now - no decissions made yet. But these at the ideas the newly named FIA chairman of rally comission Jarmo Mahonen generates.

http://yle.fi/alueet/keski-suomi/201...n_2125365.html

Couldn't they run a couple of "night" stages on the Thursday night, just be sunset thats all. We're thinking of going over again next year, so should be interesting too see where they go from here