Silly Season 2019

[Allez Andruet]

If it's fun you're after, then fair enough, the kitchen tables will give you that, but I would rather hear them far less often and also with maybe speculation that is actually closer to what is going to happen. He literally dismissed Meeke to Toyota the day before a major UK publication declared it was going to happen. I just think he has no, or very little, insider knowledge and he's just guessing scenarios that we could all make up.

Ofcourse I don't watch the Kitchen Table for same purposes I watch Leslie Nielsen movies for, but I somehow fail to understand how people don't get that it's one thing he knows and another he tells the World on KT. It's just the name of the game. And no, I'm not suggesting he would know every single contract as they're signed, but it's quite obvious that KT does not represent everything Colin Clark knows of.

[Got Mail]

Ofcourse I don't watch the Kitchen Table for same purposes I watch Leslie Nielsen movies for, but I somehow fail to understand how people don't get that it's one thing he knows and another he tells the World on KT. It's just the name of the game. And no, I'm not suggesting he would know every single contract as they're signed, but it's quite obvious that KT does not represent everything Colin Clark knows of.

Agreed.

And, to be fair to Colin, he has never claimed to be a journalist. He is a presenter who comes from a sponsorship background (555 / Subaru).

[racerx1979]

why now are you so sure?

Well because I know for sure. Confirmed by sources within. Let's move on...

[er88]

I'm with you! No matter what kind of press release TGR is going to publish, I probably won't believe it till I see Meeke actually posting a time on the Monte shakedown. On a Yaris that is.

I know you'd be with Pantealex mate, considering you were willing to bet all your money that Meeke wouldn't be at Toyota next year when I suggested it back in the Rally Finland thread, 3/4 months ago

Meeke and Toyota were apparently speaking before he was dropped by Citroen anyway. So this doesn't surprise me at all, its just 3/4 months ago I would've had Jari leaving to make way for Kris, not Lappi.

[Allez Andruet]

I know you'd be with Pantealex mate, considering you were willing to bet all your money that Meeke wouldn't be at Toyota next year when I suggested it back in the Rally Finland thread, 3/4 months ago

Thank god the bet never materialized. Not that anyone would have made any money out of it

[Fast Eddie WRC]

So as the Ulsterman gets a seat, the Irishman now looks to be out of one. Where next for Breen ?

M-Sport or part-time at Hyundai seem the only choices. Or could it be full-time there and Mikkelsen dropped after his poor year...

[mknight]

Or could it be full-time there and Mikkelsen dropped after his poor year...

Totally going to happen. They drop a driver under contract and replace him with one that has had even worse season.

[noel157]

I once asked Meeke (at a car launch, I knew the sponsor) if he read all the talk about him on the net. He said "no, life's too short".
As I alluded to earlier, WRC 19 will be a good season.


On another note what has happened Mikkelsen this season? I haven't looked at the stats but he seems be having a less than satisfactory season. Does the i20 not suit him or his driving style? Or is it a team thing?

[AnttiL]

I once asked Meeke (at a car launch, I knew the sponsor) if he read all the talk about him on the net. He said "no, life's too short".
As I alluded to earlier, WRC 19 will be a good season.


On another note what has happened Mikkelsen this season? I haven't looked at the stats but he seems be having a less than satisfactory season. Does the i20 not suit him or his driving style? Or is it a team thing?

No pace on tarmac or Finland or Wales. Dropping down many times from lead with technical issues. 50/50 mismatching with the car and bad luck.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Totally going to happen. They drop a driver under contract and replace him with one that has had even worse season.

With Breen it's mainly been due to bad luck, not bad performances.

Mikkelsen has been awful in the i20 - Sordo and Paddon have out-scored him in a shared car.