[WRC] News & Rumours 2019

[RS]

The ongoing trends in the automotive world go directly against usability of said cars in competition and as such it makes sense to ease the rules to allow the teams to build a rally car no matter what they produce in stock. In the current world it makes sense and I am not against it. I would be against twenty years a go but not in 2019.

In what way? They seem to manage now and Fiesta, i20, Yaris, C3, Fabia, Polo etc are all pretty mainstream.

[Mirek]

We are talking about the future not about today.

[dnb]

IMO the best announcement was the rotation of events. Hope it goes through.

[spiderem]

So it is the first rally this season that none of our leading trio for the championship made it to the podium. As a result it is the lowest combined score (25 points), the second lowest was Sweden (51 points).

The gap between the top 3 went from 10 points after Portugal to 7. (smallest gap so far this season was 5 points after Corsica).

Once again, there may be one man faster out there, but from a championship point of view, it is still anyone's to take.

Enjoy the summer folks, see you in Finland.

[Rallyper]

So it is the first rally this season that none of our leading trio for the championship made it to the podium. As a result it is the lowest combined score (25 points), the second lowest was Sweden (51 points).

The gap between the top 3 went from 10 points after Portugal to 7. (smallest gap so far this season was 5 points after Corsica).

Once again, there may be one man faster out there, but from a championship point of view, it is still anyone's to take.

Enjoy the summer folks, see you in Finland.

Agree. So you are going to visit NRF then...?

[spiderem]

Agree. So you are going to visit NRF then...?

I wish but it's too far from west coast of Canada unfortunately. Hopefully when I move back to Europe then I can visit NRF (amongst other rallys which are on my bucket list). For now it's WRC+ / tweeter and this forum!

[Rallyper]

I wish but it's too far from west coast of Canada unfortunately. Hopefully when I move back to Europe then I can visit NRF (amongst other rallys which are on my bucket list). For now it's WRC+ / tweeter and this forum!

Aaah. Of course you are with us anyway!

[Barreis]

http://classic.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/144210

[mknight]

4-5th in Finland with Sordo in Hyundai is extremely optimistic. Paddon barely managed 4th last year and even he needed Lappi to crash out to get it.

In fact unless the announced upgrade comes and drastically improves the car in Finland I'd say 4th is a dream result there no matter the driver.

[GravelBen]

Paddon barely managed 4th last year and even he needed Lappi to crash out to get it.

Your revisionist description of history is quite funny.

"barely managed 4th" = held 4th for most of the rally despite brake problems on saturday and not taking risks because Neuville and Mikkelsen were both well out of contention and the team needed points. Had about 40 seconds margin over Ogier at the end.

"needed Lappi to crash out to get it" = Lappi did have a big charge late saturday to catch Paddon who was 'taking it easy' (his words), but couldn't sustain that pace without crashing.

The Hyundai does seem to struggle there, I don't disagree with that. But there is no need to try and twist history to make an argument.