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Thread: Silly Season 2020
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20th November 2019, 21:45 #1441
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20th November 2019, 21:58 #1442
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They may be promoting it next year, but Extreme E will only start in 2021 with a handful of events that are looking to be a sort of TV reality show rather than proper racing. Apparently it fits on Ogier retirement plans...
Btw, it’s disgusting the way Todt and his friends from the politics are selling the industry to the electric lobby. It worth take a look on how Formula E was created: https://www.fiaformulae.com/en/news/...born-in-paris/
Basically: the French midget and the then European Commission VP Tajani pushed Agag, a spanish smart ass that learned a few tricks with Briatore and got all sort of connections from his father-in-law (spain’s former PM Aznar) to start FE, which was destined to be a failure untill Dieselgate arrived…now they’re releasing this Extreme crap and they won’t rest ruining motorsport untill EV’s bubble burst (hopefully, sooner than later).Last edited by Rally Power; 20th November 2019 at 22:05.
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20th November 2019, 22:02 #1443
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If Ogier is interested in entering Extreme-E which starts in 2021 then it seems to confirm 2020 will be his last year in WRC.
Toyota (and rally fans) must hope wunderkid Rovanpera becomes the top pilot to replace him and be able to fight for the WDC.
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20th November 2019, 22:28 #1444
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I don't really fear for Toyota. I do fear for Rovanpera. The overhype might not be good for him.
This year everyone was expecting him to easily collect WRC2pro. then he crashed in all 3 first rallies and won it only with big help of extremely limited number of entrants and repeating C3 R5 problems. Leave him alone for a year or two, like Ogier when he started in Citroen. The kind of miracle start Loeb had is extremely rare.
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20th November 2019, 22:57 #1445
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Sooooo, Ogier leaves Citroen 2 times within 10 years, hmmmmm. Well different reason now anyway.
"With that car, your brain can actually never keep up"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4IRMYuE1hI
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20th November 2019, 23:11 #1446
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21st November 2019, 00:29 #1447
Citroen was essentially a one driver team for almost a decade. What you are seeing now is in large part, due to that. Not entirely dissimilar to Mitsubishi in the mid/late 1990s, its just that this lasted a lot longer.
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21st November 2019, 00:38 #1448
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21st November 2019, 04:53 #1449
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Citroen just screwed up their driver lineup since loeb retired.
They had golden talent ogier and chased him away. They had neuville and chased him away. They had meeke and fired him. They had the chance to hire ogier back in 2016 but didn't even bother.
They even chased away loeb after 20 years of loyal service.
There just seems to be nobody in that team with an eye for talent and a long term plan.
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21st November 2019, 05:36 #1450
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In mid 2018 when he was hired Lappi was clearly the most promising new driver in WRC.
It's just that 2019 has been a bit of a disaster for him. Especially the start.
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