[WRC] News & Rumours 2019

[MartijnS]

There are no real news websites in Belgium. Just press release websites.
No big fuss about the news anyway as far as I've seen.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

lets make the Mireks statement a bit different...
if these partial program drivers,they run all rallies of the calendar.At the rallies they are specialized,they would be the same/worst/better?

My answer is they would be better.

But if they drove in all the rallies they would do badly in they ones they dislike.

Therefore their points average would be lower than when just doing their favourite events.

[denkimi]

But if they drove in all the rallies they would do badly in they ones they dislike.

Therefore their points average would be lower than when just doing their favourite events.

Liking something and being good at it are 2 completely different things.

Loeb doesn't like rally finland, yet with 8 podiums including 3 wins out of his last 8 participations, you can't claim he would do bad there.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Liking something and being good at it are 2 completely different things.

Loeb doesn't like rally finland, yet with 8 podiums including 3 wins out of his last 8 participations, you can't claim he would do bad there.

Loeb is an exception though isnt he...

[denkimi]

Loeb is an exception though isnt he...

Yes. But loeb is just as well one of those partial hyundai drivers that we're talking about here.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Yes. But loeb is just as well one of those partial hyundai drivers that we're talking about here.

So are Sordo & Mikkelsen... who dont happen to be 9x world champions.

[Mirek]

So are Sordo & Mikkelsen... who dont happen to be 9x world champions.

Eddie, the average points per event simply tell You how good job each driver did and it isn't really important how they would maybe score in the events where they didn't start. Nobody sent them to take points from there and therefore it's pointless to speak about it.

[denkimi]

So are Sordo & Mikkelsen... who dont happen to be 9x world champions.

so 1 out of 3 drivers is an exception that we should not take into account?

and as you know, results of the past are in no way a guarantee for the future. who would have believed last year that loeb would be beaten by sordo in corsica and spain?
perhaps mikkelsen would have won in spain, perhaps sordo would have won in finland. nobody can tell for sure.

[robertr]

Another story of Tänak-Toyota relationship was published in the Estonian media today:
https://ekspress.delfi.ee/kuum/ralli...mi?id=87963009

Nothing new really, except that according to this story, Markko Märtin was called "isovittu" ("big cu*t") by some Finns in Toyota, due to his hard negotiations.

[Franky]

Another story of Tänak-Toyota relationship was published in the Estonian media today:
https://ekspress.delfi.ee/kuum/ralli...mi?id=87963009

Nothing new really, except that according to this story, Markko Märtin was called "isovittu" ("big cu*t") by some Finns in Toyota, due to his hard negotiations.

I wouldn't say that the "nickname" is anything special, when it comes to difficult negotiations. Only thing is that it has got out of the inner circle.