[WRC] News & Rumours 2019

[Rallyper]

Lappi, Latvala and Paddon in MSport would be great. Even for manufacturers title.

[deephouse]

Already starting to frame it as "having no choice" but to leave cause Ogier left them....

Also says that Lappi will very quickly be announced at MSport, that's somewhat surprising, both since he had terrible year being the last WRC and especially because of who his manager is.

So that means M-Sport could get out too this year already because they don't have a top caliber driver. What a bullshit. A true team could make a title contender from anyone, not in a year but a few and it could pay off, If they would stick with Meeke and actually do something (not just talk) on the car he would be in the mix. Or Ogier could actually win again this year. And If Ogier can't change their thinking then it's good they are leaving.

[Rallyper]

Only thing MW has to do is pay for the three cars. don´t think he needs to pay salary to those drivers. And think Meeke should be MW´s 4th choice.

[Indreq]

Just dreaming - what would it take to prompt vw to join with some half-committed program? Current situation on drivers market is such that they get decent drivers who dont expect to be paid. Some might even bring money into team. They already have car... So they need to put out some money to hire support people , do some updating/developing of car and bear some participation costs. Nobody expects them to win anything, if they can be competitive with MSport then this is already good result. 😋

[deephouse]

Just dreaming - what would it take to prompt vw to join with some half-committed program? Current situation on drivers market is such that they get decent drivers who dont expect to be paid. Some might even bring money into team. They already have car... So they need to put out some money to hire support people , do some updating/developing of car and bear some participation costs. Nobody expects them to win anything, if they can be competitive with MSport then this is already good result. ��

As long as I remember one car was saved for museum, I think that two was donated to the PSRX team and others destroyed. And they have no intentions of joining at least for a while.

[SubaruNorway]

As long as I remember one car was saved for museum, I think that two was donated to the PSRX team and others destroyed. And they have no intentions of joining at least for a while.

PSRX cars were of the old generation

[pantealex]

As long as I remember one car was saved for museum, I think that two was donated to the PSRX team and others destroyed. And they have no intentions of joining at least for a while.

NO.
Polo WRC17 is 5-door.
All RX cars are older generations 3-door models.

[mknight]

Polo 2017 would be hopelessly outdated today.

I do believe if it drove in 2017 it would have been one of the fastest if not the fastest car on most rallies, however the pace of development has also been huge since.

Just check the stagetimes on same or similar stages between 2017 and 2019 and by all accounts it looks like dramatic improvements. Most of the improvement is from new parts but a lot is actually from perfecting the setups of the cars.



Anyway this is off topic here and since this thread is about News and Rumours 2019 and 2019 season is over I think it's time to move to the 2020 thread.
https://www.motorsportforums.com/sho...p-Rumours-2020

[Tarmop]

Not that dramatic, you can compare. There is that, ofc, but there is different weather, different drivers, different chicanes, different problems, different standings, different itinerary ( so different wear in tyres, level of fuel, exhaustion)...etc. Way too many variables.

[mknight]

I did compare, typically more than 0.2 s/km from 2018 to 2019, from 2017 to 2019 it's from 0.5 s/km upwards.

Being 0.5 s/km slower would mean you finish around 7th place on most rallies this year.