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Thread: Silly Season 2019
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17th October 2018, 18:46 #1011
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Breen was in the wrong team. He couldn't progress as much as the finn.
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17th October 2018, 18:59 #1012
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17th October 2018, 19:10 #1013
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Wrong again. WITH Tanak we have 3 way battle (it's hard for him but it's still possible). Hope M-Sport find another driver that challenge next year for that also and that it will be even closer fights...
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17th October 2018, 19:13 #1014
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I think hiring a 5-time champ together with a proven rally winner is quite understandable move. And getting Ogier onboard has probably automatically meant that the line-up will be two cars only. And securing the services of Ogier has also secured the future of the team. So all in all Citroen did pretty well this silly season.
ku ois neljä pyörää ku vetäis ni ois vähän eri sekunnit kyllä pätkillä, sen mä takaan
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17th October 2018, 19:27 #1015
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Can't help but think M-Sport are now in a downward spiral towards little car development and purely pay drivers, once again. A shame. Reminds me of a few years back, 2011 and 2012 winning rallies with some Ford backing and a promising new car (akin to '17 and '18, although not as much Ford $$$), 2013 bringing some promising talent to podiums (could be Breen and Paddon in '19), '14, '15, '16 not much to write home about.
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17th October 2018, 19:36 #1016
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Well Msport is first and foremost a business, not a money-sink PR venture like Toyota or Hyundai.
That said they did "paydrivers and no development" also in 2005 and then the 2006 car was very good. Lately you could also say the same about 2016 before 2017.
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17th October 2018, 19:37 #1017
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17th October 2018, 19:49 #1018
Hard to disagree with this; I can't understand why Ford won't come in with full backing, or why M-Sport have proved incapable of finding a title sponsor. Maybe they don't have a title sponsor because they don't have full manufacturer backing, or maybe they don't have full manufacturer backing because they don't have a title sponsor......
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17th October 2018, 19:53 #1019
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It's a quite a gamble by Toyota. They have effectively swapped 4th in the WDC Lappi for a Citroen driver... and chose the old, fast but crash-prone Meeke over the young solid-scoring Breen.
Breen as a like-for-like swap for Lappi would've been the obvious move. And Meeke to M-Sport would've brought them a potential winner.
Makinen must have his reasons so we'll have to see what he says and then how it turns out.
M-Sport now how very limited options of who is available and who they could even want, so as to make continuing really worthwhile.
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17th October 2018, 20:05 #1020
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Meeke to M-Sport could`ve been too much too handle, financially.
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