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21st September 2018, 21:57 #341
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Fair point, but what about this ‘ŕ la Hyundai’ alternative: Latvala and Meeke sharing a car? Like Sordo, their title dreams are long gone and they could have a more relaxed approach to events (Meeke ’16 half season went quite well). On the 3rd Yaris Makinen could get Hanninen back or invest in a young guy, like many suggested. Anyway, it’s quite a surprise to see this turbulence at Toyota; they seemed pretty balanced.
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21st September 2018, 22:26 #342
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Not quite sure if I'd call it balanced. Tanak is dominating while the two others struggle.
Latvala and Lappi have not led a rally for even a single stage after 10 rounds, with what often looks like the fastest car, that's actually quite amazing. The only rallies where one of them got podium on pure pace was Latvala in Finland (a rally where he dominated last year until technical issue), Monte is hard to count with 3 cars ahead of him hitting issues. Lappi has been complaining now on last 2 gravel rallies about gearbox not shifting down and stalling the engine and repeated it also happens on tests.
Might be that the changes introduced after Tanak came don't really suit them that much, Latvala even voiced something along those lines recently.Last edited by mknight; 21st September 2018 at 22:35.
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22nd September 2018, 01:14 #343
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22nd September 2018, 08:41 #344
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22nd September 2018, 09:05 #345
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22nd September 2018, 09:10 #346
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Well media wants to sell/get clicks and fans like to speculate, so off course there is a lot of that.
Let's just list the facts:
- Neither Latvala nor Lappi have been announced as signed for Toyota next year and it's becoming relatively late in the usual signing season. If it was straightforward they would have announced them already, there is no reason to hold back on announcing it since they are in the same team.
- Latvala said he knows there will be changes in the teams and that he has contract for next year, but wouldn't say for which team. Again if it was 100% sure it was Toyota it would be strange not to announce it. Either it's somewhere else or there are multiple offers.Last edited by mknight; 22nd September 2018 at 09:15.
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22nd September 2018, 09:11 #347
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I think we’ll be a lot wiser next week
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22nd September 2018, 09:44 #348
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Latvala saying "there will be changes"? In Toyota or overall? Ogier to Citroen for example is a change or 1 departure from Hyundai.
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22nd September 2018, 09:47 #349
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Neuville is only one announced as signed, does that mean everyone else (driver/team) are in turbulance?
Toyota is factory team from Japan, those Japanise decide when they announce their drivers. Previus years they had press conference where they introduced all 3 drivers same time.
Fact is that Latvala has deal for all rallies, so not sharing car with "Meeke"
I`m personally 100% sure that JML has signed with TGR. Lappi situation is bit open..."quattro best 4wd rallycar ever"
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22nd September 2018, 09:50 #350
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For me it sound reasonable to remove Hybrid from the car in terms of cost saving. If I am not mistaken, one unit is ca 15% of the total car cost. And in most of the rallies, more than one unit is...
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