Silly Season 2020

[OHL]

And quite rightly as he's stuck with Elfyn through some pretty lean years.

Comments like this are made a lot but it's important to remember that this is Malcolm's business model. He wants a driver who is promising and occasionally fast. They will drive for very little cost and bring the odd good result. He invests in them to develop them and his company. When they move on to a better pay situation he benefits as well and rightly so.
Where these comments go a little off the rails are when it's stated in such a way like Malcolm has been benevolent and suffered or sacrificed to bring that driver along.
In the case of Elfyn, Malcolm chose to keep going with him, for his own reasons. Good for Elfyn that he may now have a chance in a proper paying situation and good for Malcolm that his investment may be paying off.

[EstWRC]

theres an interview with Adamo today in estonian newspaper.

"there were also rumours about golden toilet seat and that i make dinner for Ott every day, there were a lot of rumours".

about the contract: "shorter one would have been stupid and longer one too, im not marrying with them, two years is a good compromise to start a relationship"

about his saying in the summer that he hasnt got the money to hire Tänak: "it was a joke that i told everybody to win time, the budget coming from South-Korea is good enough to run the team as we want. we didnt have to cry in front of the bosses to double our budget, i didnt do any miracles."

he isnt sayin when exactly the deal was done because "he honestly" doesnt remember. About his and Ott sayings in september (when Ott said the conversations were difficult and they arent friends anymore): "At one point i and Ott were asked so much about our contract talks, that WE (he and Ott) decided we start playing with journalists."

The pressure from journalists didnt bother him, says that its part of his and Otts job and he actually didnt like playing games with journalists: "If i say to them that i dont have anything to say but they wont stop asking, of course then i have to play fool for them." "Ott is more important than me, he is a national hero now in estonia, he had a lot of pressure and i fully understand he didnt want to talk about rumours".

Also he mentions that Alain Penasse helped him a lot during the talks, he couldnt handle his temper at times but Penasse was more pragmatic .

About talks with Markko:
“It was tricky because Markko is a very tough guy. I told Märtin that I was once a fan of his and bought model cars - I had both his Subaru and Ford. I told Markko that I would never have supported him if I had known that he was such a tough guy to have negotiations. In the end, he gave a free signature to the model ”

[AnttiL]

Priceless stories!

[dimviii]

@EstWRC
can we find online the whole interview to translate via google?

[EstWRC]

@EstWRC
can we find online the whole interview to translate via google?

it was a paid article, you can only see the first pharagraph or introduction lets say

i actually bought it, i dont remeber when was the last time i actually bought something from estonian media

[robertr]

it was a paid article, you can only see the first pharagraph or introduction lets say

i actually bought it, i dont remeber when was the last time i actually bought something from estonian media

You are a hero. I was about 30 seconds away of paying myself. Decided to check here before and it paid off...1,49 eur to be exact.

[dimviii]

Guys its get sillier!

https://twitter.com/HartusvuoriWRC/s...909023744?s=19


edit at French forum wrote that they may took same plane for Australia

[Japé]

Aichi recce? Central Rally Aichi (8 - 10 November)

[er88]

edit at French forum wrote that they may took same plane for Australia

Yep

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Comments like this are made a lot but it's important to remember that this is Malcolm's business model. He wants a driver who is promising and occasionally fast. They will drive for very little cost and bring the odd good result. He invests in them to develop them and his company. When they move on to a better pay situation he benefits as well and rightly so.
Where these comments go a little off the rails are when it's stated in such a way like Malcolm has been benevolent and suffered or sacrificed to bring that driver along.
In the case of Elfyn, Malcolm chose to keep going with him, for his own reasons. Good for Elfyn that he may now have a chance in a proper paying situation and good for Malcolm that his investment may be paying off.

Of course its business... M-Sport isnt a charity. But its taken a long time for Evans (and Tanak incidentally) to break into the top level and MW could easily have given up on him and switched to another prospect. His belief in him has been huge and I dont see him ever getting this anywhere else.