2012 Silly Season - WRC

[bretddog]

Have some humor!

It's not humor to pretend to have inside info. It's pure idiocy. ..oh well, maybe in Finland.

[Roy]

If Hirvonen wins, Citroen drives again with 1&2 on the door?

[AMSS]

It`s not pretending i meant the humor part to save this info.
Mikko has even asked some of his mechanics to join him already for C next year!

[N.O.T]

Mini is sponsored by BP en Castrol. Partners / WRC / MINI Motorsport

are these financial partners as well ? i doubt for example that Michelin is sponsorong the mini project in ways other than tyres, and Castrol and BP are partners of the M-sport project...maybe they provide the lubrication products for the car only.

[N.O.T]

It`s not pretending i meant the humor part to save this info.
Mikko has even asked some of his mechanics to join him already for C next year!

So he will join as No2 driver status ? or equal status ?

[AMSS]

If Loeb has as said a contract that grants him no.1 than it`s quit easy to do the math! Also there`s no way i think he could challenge loeb anyway regardless of what says in any contract!

[Motorsportfun]

are these financial partners as well ? i doubt for example that Michelin is sponsorong the mini project in ways other than tyres, and Castrol and BP are partners of the M-sport project...maybe they provide the lubrication products for the car only.

I doubt that such a big space on the car would be dedicated to a simple supplier... I think there's also money in the mix!

[N.O.T]

If Loeb has as said a contract that grants him no.1 than it`s quit easy to do the math! Also there`s no way i think he could challenge loeb anyway regardless of what says in any contract!

well its not about challange...for example if Loeb had No1 status this year Ogier would have dropped behind him in many occasions and he would allow him to win, but he only did that when Loeb was way ahead on points and the main contender for the championship.

The move of Hirvonen to citroen would mean that the Citroen team also will change their policy concerning drivers from now on and they will have a No1 and a No2....so far all these years they had the equal start and the one who gets ahead on points comfortably gets the No1 for the rest of the season.

[Motorsportfun]

Btw, the line-up for 2012 would be like this IMHO

CITROEN: Loeb-Hirvonen
FORD: Latvala-Ogier
MINI: Meeke-Sordo
VOLKSWAGEN: P.Solberg-Hanninen

> Private teams

QATAR: Al-Attiyah
VM-MOTORSPORT: van Merksteijn

STOBART: H.Solberg-Wilson(?)-Ostberg
FERM: Kuipers
MUNCHI'S: Villagra (?)
ABU DHABI: Al Qassimi
MONSTER: Block (?)

BRAZIL WRT: Oliveira-Atkinson (?)
MS ITALIA: Araujo

VW B-TEAM: Gassner Jr-Mikkelsen

[jens]

The strange thing is that if two Sebs really can't fit into one team, why is Citroen preferring the older driver instead of a long-term prospect? A year or so ago there were a lot of guesses that Ogier will send Loeb to retirement and Citroen should be relieved that they have finally got a driver, who can take over the lead role in the team. What happened?