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    Sucks for Latvala and Meeke. Not sure if Katsuta has "it". Hopefully he improves as time goes on. He has a good team and coach.

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    It seems we will hear maybe next week from m-sport?

    https://twitter.com/richmillener/sta...57257003884545
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    Did M-Sport use all their test days for this year already? Seems they haven’t done any preparation for Monte yet.

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    According to Luis they have 15 left:

    https://www.wrcwings.tech/2019/11/14...ys-and-jokers/

    Off course he can be a few days off here or there but very likely they have some left.

    Part of the reason is that they very often had 2 drivers and Tidemand and Greensmiths days didn't count.

    Guess it's about waiting for the driver decisions,cause running a separate test for just Suninen would cost a lot extra.

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    A shame to see zero engine upgrades for M-Sport.

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    Quote Originally Posted by EstWRC View Post
    Also the fact that Mads is the only one besides Lappi who has tested the car with the new aero, he knows the car very well.

    I would be very disappointed if its another year with an R5.
    To be honest, if someone is going to have a go with a private entry, this is probably the best situation you could do it with.
    He won’t be competing against the factory so there is no conflict of interest in terms of giving him the right information etc. The car has just received probably its biggest and most significant update since its inception, which according to Lappi is very good.
    If he has a good enough budget to run it right, could be good...

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    To actually "receive" the upgrade it has to be homologated. Which it isn't atm
    https://www.fia.com/homologations
    (no update since 2/8 https://www.fia.com/sites/default/fi...02.08.2019.pdf)

    To homologate someone has to pay some money and I seem to recall that the team also has to be entered in WRC?

    It was these kinds of homologation issues that stopped 2017 Polo from ever starting an event.

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    Isn’t there an interview with Budar where he says the updates are homologated? Maybe as the car hasn’t competed since, the update hasn’t been added?
    Equally, I doubt that the cost of an update is anything like the figures talked about for homologating the whole car as was the case with VW...

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    Quote Originally Posted by mknight View Post
    To actually "receive" the upgrade it has to be homologated. Which it isn't atm
    https://www.fia.com/homologations
    (no update since 2/8 https://www.fia.com/sites/default/fi...02.08.2019.pdf)

    To homologate someone has to pay some money and I seem to recall that the team also has to be entered in WRC?

    It was these kinds of homologation issues that stopped 2017 Polo from ever starting an event.
    So FIA working against themselves...?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rallyper View Post
    So FIA working against themselves...?
    It’s fair to say that in 2017 the FIA asked other manus to allow an exception for the Polo homologation but they’ve opposed to it, arguing the rules demanded WRC registered manus (the only ones able to homologate cars and parts) to enter 2 cars for a full season (at the time only Mikkelsen was planning to run the Polo in some events) https://www.vwvortex.com/motorsport-...o-wrcs-coffin/

    Probably the same can happen if Citroen asks to homologate 2020 jokers, although anyone is free to run a 2019 spec C3.
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