Silly Season 2019

[Allez Andruet]

It seems a bit wide of the mark to think Lappi would move to Citroen purely for money.

Not necessarily. Lappi earns his living by driving a rally car and in such matters money usually plays a big role. I don't think WRC drivers are any different on that. Like in all sports, you should earn enough money to cover your needs for years to come in relatively short period of time. And in that sense, it sure makes difference whether you make 300k€ or 500k€ per year. Those amounts are ofcourse hypothetical, but if the gap between the offers from Toyota and Citroen is even close to that, all the other features suddenly don't mean so much anymore.

[Duvel]

For me the teams should be like this:

Toyota Tanak, JML, Tidemand
Hyunday Neuville, Mikkelsen, Sordo
Citroen Ogier, Lappi, Breen
Msport Meeke, Suninen, Paddon

Third drivers can be diffrent.
I would like to see the (in my opinion) 4 fastest drives in four diffrent teams.

[Eli]

......and in English: http://acm.mc/wp-content/uploads/201...Guide-1-GB.pdf
First page, doesn't say if it's for WRC or WRC2.....

[racerx1979]

Not necessarily. Lappi earns his living by driving a rally car and in such matters money usually plays a big role. I don't think WRC drivers are any different on that. Like in all sports, you should earn enough money to cover your needs for years to come in relatively short period of time. And in that sense, it sure makes difference whether you make 300k€ or 500k€ per year. Those amounts are ofcourse hypothetical, but if the gap between the offers from Toyota and Citroen is even close to that, all the other features suddenly don't mean so much anymore.

Honestly your pricing is not too far off. Rumor has it Lappi was underpaid this year... I would move for 200k per year more.

[mknight]

Honestly your pricing is not too far off. Rumor has it Lappi was underpaid this year... I would move for 200k per year more.

Right now he is surely the most wanted driver after Ogier, from all the drivers without contract (for some maybe even more than Ogier cause he costs nowhere near as much).

When else should he fight for more money.

[deephouse]

Maybe Skoda will step up for the big trophy and Volkswagen will debut (even if they say they will not compete with contructors) in WRC2. I mean it's possible. If they dominate that world too they could sell a huge amount of Polos across the world. I think that Proton will not be in WRC2 because everything shuts down at the moment, at least for the media. Polo have a huge development and is practically mentioned every week somewhere, on the other side that little Iriz is meant for nationals only like Mirage and Corsa (if they will build one).

I hope that this news brings one more to the game, and I really hope that then one of them will not pull out from sport. M-Sport or Citroen (if they don't get Ogier).

[eib1]

ACM published RG1... but its noticed that new manufacturers could be enter to WRC soon ... Who ? ► http://bit.ly/2QVwXgz

this time it`s simple - VW and WRC2

[racerx1979]

this time it`s simple - VW and WRC2

Possibly, but they are entering as early as Spain so it should have been listed??

[Fast Eddie WRC]

OGIER: �� @autohebdo are reporting today that Sébastien Ogier will return to Citroën in 2019. They also claim he's already tested the C3 WRC in the south of France ���� @OfficialWRC | #WRC | #WRCLive https://t.co/mIcsybTGvG

https://www.autohebdo.fr/wrc/actuali...en-197765.html

[Hartusvuori]

this time it`s simple - VW and WRC2

So after about two years of saying Polo R5 will be a customer car, not a manufacturer entry, they'd go the other way? Hmm. No.