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    How about VERY silly season?

    Probably been discussed before and means nothing, but from Monte Carlo Rally 2019 Rally Guide 1, page 3:

    "There is every possibility that a new manufacturer will also be participating in the 2019 World Rally Championship. We will know more before the end of the year."

    http://acm.mc/wp-content/uploads/201...Guide-1-GB.pdf

    It's probably nothing and a misprint, but hey ho, seemed the right thread for it.

    On a probably unrelated note, article about the Proton Iriz R5 being in WRC2 at Monte Carlo next Jan:

    https://paultan.org/2018/10/19/proto...-januari-2019/
    aka Rodger Davies

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    Porsche.
    "With that car, your brain can actually never keep up"
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4IRMYuE1hI

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    Quote Originally Posted by dodge33cymru View Post
    Total have been involved in plenty of French motorsport and the whole sport owes a lot to their backing. They sponsor far lower profile racing than WRC and have a strategy of being associated with any type of motorsport anyone thinks of. I'm a biased case, but compared to the likes of Esso, Total's brand has become massively more prominent over the last 20 years, thanks partially to a wide level of exposure.
    Which has been drastically reduced in recent years as the current regime at the top are not convienced of the return from motorsport. This is exactly why they are now sponsoring things such as Badminton!

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    https://www.rallye-magazin.de/wrc/ar...t-eine-absage/

    Is this the end of our hopes of Skoda being in top league?

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    Quote Originally Posted by deephouse View Post
    https://www.rallye-magazin.de/wrc/ar...t-eine-absage/

    Is this the end of our hopes of Skoda being in top league?
    I think this is just aa repeat of the already known fact that they won’t be joining in this rule periode (so until 2021).

    In a way it's understandable that they don't want to use time and money on a car where they possibly would need to change a lot 1-2 years later.
    On the other hand it often looks like their budget in WRC2 is not far from MSPORT or Citroen budget in WRC.

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    Maybe they like winning almost all events (like Volkswagens). In WRC that could be harder. It says that Toyota could be his rival. Are they working secretly on R5 project??

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    Quote Originally Posted by deephouse View Post
    Maybe they like winning almost all events (like Volkswagens). In WRC that could be harder. It says that Toyota could be his rival. Are they working secretly on R5 project??
    There's been some rumors about Yaris R5 and Mäkinen himself has said that it's something they'd like to offer to their customers in the future. In this story (from Feb 2018), Mäkinen says that there's a plan to kick off the project in autumn 2018, and that the "development" (probably meaning the testing) will start during spring 2019. Tommi would also want Hänninen to carry the duties of the main test driver in that project.

    https://www.rallit.fi/tommi-makinen-...uvassa-hommia/
    ku ois neljä pyörää ku vetäis ni ois vähän eri sekunnit kyllä pätkillä, sen mä takaan

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    Quote Originally Posted by deephouse View Post
    https://www.rallye-magazin.de/wrc/ar...t-eine-absage/
    Is this the end of our hopes of Skoda being in top league?
    If so, that’s disappointing. Officially, current cars will still have a second 3 years cycle (2020-22), even if it was talked it could be shorten to 2 in order to speed hybrids introduction. Maybe then it’ll be VW coming forward to the top league, leaving Skoda restrain to WRC2, once more.
    Rally addict since 1982

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    So why has Hyundai gone silent? Thought Dani Sordo confirmation was supposed to be out last week? Even Paddon has gone silent on the social media. I wonder if Hyundai is waiting for results from Australia from Mikleson to see if he earns that full time seat or shares with Dani. Just a thought!

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    Probably still negotiations undergoing. Huttunen's recent test also could be added in the mix...

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