[WRC] News & rumours (part IV) 2016

[Rally Power]

http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/mo...y-championship

This may be huge, considering that Autocar broke VW story and the Welsch fellow is the VW board member that was mentioned on the official pull out PR. Fingers crossed!

Btw, the rumors that kept the Polo alive over the last weeks (VW thread) were already stating that besides homologation VW Motorsport was building 5 units to be run by themselves under Red Bull/Qatar flags. Ogier and Al-Attiyah?

[EstWRC]

we will see in a few days, Ogier will announce his new team then. thats why i dont believe it, ogier wouldnt announce so soon if this would be true.

[smsgrafica]

2017 Polo would be good enough at the start of the season, but how well would it cope without being developed?

[danon]

[Arnold Triyudho Wardono]

2017 Polo would be good enough at the start of the season, but how well would it cope without being developed?

It's BGP001 all over again..

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[Andre Oliveira]

Thursday: M-Sport super secret meeting
Friday: Ogier say that will announce in next few days
Hummm... interesting

[Rally Power]

2017 Polo would be good enough at the start of the season, but how well would it cope without being developed?

It'd be developed like any other WRC car. VW Motorsport would still run and develop the '17 car all season long, besides renting and servicing the '16 cars. It'd be a win/win situation: no VW official involvement, the entry is made and paid by an external entity, but VW Motorsport could keep doing their job. A happy ending for the pull out mess!

[dimviii]

Gary Boyd ‏@KiwiWRCfan ·

Michel Nadan says no fourth 2017 Hyundai i20 #WRC for Kevin Abbring and no R5 in WRC2 either, however plenty to do in 2017 as test driver

[EstWRC]

Thursday: M-Sport super secret meeting
Friday: Ogier say that will announce in next few days
Hummm... interesting

was there meeting then? i saw some tweets but nothing certain not that it matters, im pretty sure he will be in m-sport.

[dimviii]

After riding recently on the ground in the south-west, Michelin spent 2 days in the Ardèche to prepare new tires for the next WRC season. With a C4 WRC then a Skoda Fabia R5, Freddy Loix was able to try softs and super-soft. The conditions did not allow to properly test the rain tires. These gums could be used as early as Monté-Carlo. The teams that have made all their development of the new 2017 cars on the 2016 tires will have to adapt to these new tires quickly.

video at link
http://www.worldrallyisfree.com/2016...-prepare-2017/