Silly Season 2020

**AnttiL** · 2nd September 2019, 09:47

https://twitter.com/DaniSordo/status...77880440328192

Sordo says "see you next year in Cordoba"

**Fast Eddie WRC** · 2nd September 2019, 10:29

The other aspect is the new Regs from 2022. Who knows how Tanak might feel about driving the new hybrid cars or which team will be the best to make and develop them. It could be his ideal stepping off point.

**wia5958** · 2nd September 2019, 12:50

Could we do a pickems in 2020 for who is going to be driving for Hyundai each round 😋

**deephouse** · 3rd September 2019, 12:33

You have a lot of drivers to pick from. Like hundreds...

**Fast Eddie WRC** · 3rd September 2019, 14:52

M-Sport believes its current driver Teemu Suninen can mature into as strong a #WRC contender as points leader Ott Tanak.
https://t.co/6nONq1NPmx

Suninen to stay at M-Sport in 2020 seems pretty definite.

**AnttiL** · 3rd September 2019, 15:20

Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC

M-Sport believes its current driver Teemu Suninen can mature into as strong a #WRC contender as points leader Ott Tanak.
https://t.co/6nONq1NPmx

Suninen to stay at M-Sport in 2020 seems pretty definite.

Or he's trying to sell Suninen into other teams, with a share of the salary in mind?

**rallyfiend** · 3rd September 2019, 17:05

Originally Posted by AnttiL

https://twitter.com/DaniSordo/status...77880440328192

Sordo says "see you next year in Cordoba"

Maybe he means the one in his native Spain?

**Fast Eddie WRC** · 5th September 2019, 09:21

Originally Posted by AnttiL

Or he's trying to sell Suninen into other teams, with a share of the salary in mind?

Explain how that would work ?

**T16** · 5th September 2019, 09:41

Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC

Explain how that would work ?

I think a few drivers have (or had) it in their contracts that if a team gives them the initial leg up into the championship, that team gets a percentage of their future earnings.
I may be wrong, but I’m sure Latvala and Tanak have gone through that process.

**AnttiL** · 5th September 2019, 09:44

Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC

Explain how that would work ?

Normally driving with M-Sport would require bringing money in. But if the team wants to invest in the driver, they let him drive without bringing the money, but at the same time they make a deal that when the driver gets in a factory team and gets paid, a part of the salary goes to M-Sport, to pay back the investment.

But this is all speculation, whether this kind of deals even exist.