Hayden Paddon

[AL14]

where is that guy called nose ends first who worked with Paddon and was here a few years ago??

Lundefaret... I don't know, I was in contact with him, we still are even friends on FB but I don't have had any more contact with him.
I loved his endless posts and his Nose End First "obsession" even if I didn't always agree.

[kiil]

Happy for him. I thought that that rumor wasn't much reliable but it turned out it was.
I don't know how fast he will be with a client Fiesta and after so many months without driving any WRC car but I will be rooting for him that weekend.

I'm not sure how much a client Fiesta differs from a works Fiesta. Msport has very few cars, almost all have been used in 2019 by works entries. Also i would assume Msport sees potential in Paddons entry, so i'm sure he will get as good spec as possible.

[AnttiL]

I'm not sure how much a client Fiesta differs from a works Fiesta. Msport has very few cars, almost all have been used in 2019 by works entries. Also i would assume Msport sees potential in Paddons entry, so i'm sure he will get as good spec as possible.

He's also running for manufacturer points. In M-Sport there's a fine line between a "client" car and a "works" car.

[mknight]

Another way to look at it is that Andreas does well on rallies where his car is strongest car. .

Up until Rally Sardegna 2019 Andreas Mikkelsen has 25 podiums. On 13 of those Podiums he has been part of a team P1-P2 or a team P1-P2-P3
Ponder this for a moment.
I very much doubt we would find anyone else with over 1/2 their podiums looking like this. I did have a look at Dani Sordo as a most likely to be similar. Dani has 45 podiums of which 17 were P1-P2 or P1-P2-P3 so just over 1/3

It has all to do with him doing the wast majority of his WRC starts in VW with Ogier. (dominant car/driver). Just like Sordo did most with Loeb in Citroen.
Citroen was never as dominant as VW in 2013-2015, which also explains the difference.

[AL14]

I'm not sure how much a client Fiesta differs from a works Fiesta. Msport has very few cars, almost all have been used in 2019 by works entries. Also i would assume Msport sees potential in Paddons entry, so i'm sure he will get as good spec as possible.

I don't know. Maybe you are right considering these new cars. In the previous wrc-specs cars there was a difference between customers and official cars. Hope now it's different as you say.

[Grutz]

While I think Paddon would be putting up over 50% of cost of running car I think M-Sport would be putting in some investment to this drive as they would see more value in having Paddon drive their car compared to someone like Bertelli, Block or Bouffier.

[the sniper]

While I think Paddon would be putting up over 50% of cost of running car I think M-Sport would be putting in some investment to this drive as they would see more value in having Paddon drive their car compared to someone like Bertelli, Block or Bouffier.

The deal came about quickly, seemingly at the moment it's one rally and we're talking about Malcolm. No reason to believe he didn't pay the same price as Bouffier, Tidemand or Greensmith, at least.

[nafpaktos]

where is that guy called nose ends first who worked with Paddon and was here a few years ago??

probably fired by paddon probably because he realised he was a clown

[GravelBen]

IIRC Lundafaret was working with Ostberg in 2017, and maybe other drivers too? Not sure about now, the Nose End First facebook page hasn't had any posts since mid 2017.

[EstWRC]

IIRC Lundafaret was working with Ostberg in 2017, and maybe other drivers too? Not sure about now, the Nose End First facebook page hasn't had any posts since mid 2017.

i used to chat quite often with him on facebook but at one moment He just suddenly disappeared.

dont know what happened, i hope everything is okay.