Silly Season 2020

[Katvala]

So, 2020 season will be only 3 constructors? Assuming M-Sport will chip in...

is WRC dying?? there should be something done to attract factories/teams to the champio

You described the history of wrc now
There is always this worry, when manufacturers leave. There's been worse times, and the lack of seats isn't anything new. The question is always how to attract more manus but that isn't so straight forward

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[BobJones]

Elfyn Evans finally gets a decent salary in the WRC, a just reward. Hopefully, he can stop working in the Suzuki dealership and focus purely on rally at least for two seasons.

[BigWorm]

So, 1 year deal for Seb and 2 year deals for Elfyn and Kalle. Solid choices by Toyota to put trust in Elfyn and Kalle I think.

[Viking]

@JariMattiWRC

Following the announcement of @TGR_WRC I would like, first of all, to thank the team for the 3 great years and the success we shared together. I am currently working on competing in some #WRC events in 2020. Will keep you posted on that. Big thanks to our fans for your support.

[deephouse]

So now, let´s wait for the MSport line up...

Any suggestions?

I would go with all remaining ones. Latvala, Meeke sharing first car. Lappi, Mikkelsen second and Ostberg, Paddon and Suninen third.

That way all of them get better road position

[er88]

Worrying hearing that there's talk of only 1 seat left at Msport. There should be two alongside Suninen.

This is there chance to get a really good lineup for dirt cheap, so I'd be a bit pissed off if they decide against it to run Greensmith in 3rd car or just run two cars.

[Vahula]

So basically after Germany Ogier went to Mäkinen. Mäkinen could have said that he supports he's drivers but didn't and started to talk to Ogier. Ott wanted to sign the contract so he would not have that pressure on him when he was fighting for the title at the end of the season, but Tommi was ready to switch him if the title did not come. Ott looks for alternative solutions and found Adamo.

The rest is history

[Frostmourne]

M-Sport should have a decent car that can bring manu. champ. I think their best chance to win that at least Mikkelsen , Lappi and Suninen.

[ggg377]

I would go with all remaining ones. Latvala, Meeke sharing first car. Lappi, Mikkelsen second and Ostberg, Paddon and Suninen third.

That way all of them get better road position

Latvala and Meeke would be a massive waste for M-Sport. They didn't perform for Toyota at all this season even when it was gravely needed (Spain). Suninen will definitely do a full season, I believe that was also confirmed by Millener. In my opinion it will all boil down to which driver is the most capable of tuning and improving the Fiesta WRC the most. If Suninen was missing Evans's technical input when he was out with a back injury for 3 stages, can you imagine that for a whole season? The car would fall so far behind Hyundai and Toyota and we will end up with another Citroen situation. In my opinion, the open spot it will be contested by Lappi and Mikkelsen (unless Hyundai creates the rumored satellite team with Breen, Veiby and Mikkelsen). I would assume Mikkelsen has more experience with the technical side of WRC, but I might be wrong. Lappi definitely has more potential. If Mikkelsen is out and Wilson doesn't see potential in Lappi to improve the car, it will get very difficult, despite the seemingly large number of options.

[Rallyper]

Worrying hearing that there's talk of only 1 seat left at Msport. There should be two alongside Suninen.

This is there chance to get a really good lineup for dirt cheap, so I'd be a bit pissed off if they decide against it to run Greensmith in 3rd car or just run two cars.

It´s expensive running three cars. At least for MW.