Crystal Ball Predictions 2020

[TWRC]

1. Drivers' title to be decided at the last round, while the manufacturers' will be decided earlier.
2. Rovanpera to get a podium during the season
3. Surprise C3 WRC programme with someone
4. Loeb to have at least 1 podium
5. Latvala to retire at the end of the year

1 - 50% right
2 - 100%
3 - almost happened, hopefully next year with the big aero version
4 - 100%
5- nope

Well, surprisingly I had much more correct than last year, crystal ball calibration must have been better. Of course these weren't too risky.

[steve.mandzij]

Yay crystal ball time!

1. Toyota relinquishes their WCC in the final round.

2. Ogier WDC, Neuville runner up as Tanak is forced to adapt his driving style to Theirry's car.

3. Evans gets close to winning a rally but only manages 2nd place out of his characteristic misfortune. He'll be the best of the rest again.

4. Rovanpera wins in Sweden or Sardegna but struggles on tarmac and bins a few Yarises, returning in rally 2 and ends up in the top 3 of most power stage points won.

5. Latvala bins it into a snowbank in Sweden on Friday but wins in Finland, crying on the podium yet remaining out of a seat for 2021


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Sums up my year that not a single one of these was right.

Maybe Rovanpera is in the top 3 of power stage points though?

[mknight]

Shared 3rd with Evans.

[T16]

1 Evans will have more points than Ogier after the first two rallys.
2 Lappi will finish second on the Monte.
3 Evans will finish 3rd overall in WDC.
4 Latvala will finish 2nd in Sweden.
5 Breen will drive for Hyundai in Wales and finish on the podium.

1.

[rp]

1. Ogier will take his 7th WRC title
2. Hyundai will win the Manufacturer´s title
3. Only Ogier, Neuville & Tänak will win in 2020
4. Kalle Rovanperä will take his 1st Podium during the WRC 2020
5. No Citroën C3 WRC during the WRC 2020

4/5. Evans & Sordo were better than I predicted, but otherwise went well!

[AnttiL]

1. Ogier will be more comfortable in his new car than Tänak. I predict Ogier to be more often faster than Tänak in rallies where neither has technical issues. If this proves to be difficult to measure, we’ll go down to counting better stage results...
2. Neuville and Tänak will end up in a situation where one has to help the other for personal title or stop racing each other to preserve manufacturer points. Subsequently Autosport will publish an article which talks about the tense situation in the team between these two star drivers.
3. Latvala will continue his 2018/2019 form in the rallies he starts. He will make top 3 stage times, but won’t finish on the podium.
4. Rovanperä will get his career first stage win on a super special stage in Mexico.
5. Only 4 stages (not counting repeats) will be over 35 km long and only one of them over 40 km.

1. Ogier won 25 stages and Tänak 12. Ogier won two rallies, Tänak only one. Ogier led rallies for 30 stages, Tänak only 16. I think it's quite clear.
2. I don't think we had this situation
3. Based on one stage in Sweden, he would have been as slow as Katsuta, but would he have improved?
4. This was close. He won the short super special in Mexico, but won the Sweden power stage already before
5. I think we only had Cetibeli in Turkey over 35 km. Based on itineraries of rallies which got cancelled, this would have been wrong anyway.

So 1/5

[Morte66]

1. Ogier driver's champion
2. Hyundai constructor's champion
3. Paddon does not finish a rally in a WRC1
4. Ogier retires at the end of the year as scheduled
5. Lappi does better than Suuninen

1 yes
2 yes
3 yes I think?
4 come on Seb you know you want to, still a few weeks to enjoy the fire at home and decide how nice it would be
5 yes

4/5 and still dreaming?

[Katvala]

1. Tänak will not be the champion of 2020
2. Mikkelsen will win a world rally
3. Hyundai will win the manufacturer championship
4. Latvala will win one rally
5. Rovanperä will have 3 podiums

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1. Correct, Ogier won
2. Mikkelsen did win a WRC3 rally
3. Correct, Hyundai won the title
4. Very wrong
5. No, only one

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[KiwiWRCfan]

with a 1 2 3 4 5 imbedded in 1 2 3 4 5

1. Retained - Ott Tanak defends his WDC and elects to use no 1 in 2021
2. Returning - Seb Marshall codrives for 2 different drivers in WRC cars during season
3. Competitive - 3rd place less than 13.3 seconds from winner creating closest podium since Acropolis 2011
4. Bombshell - Adamo drops Seb Loeb to a 4th car for one event
5. Multiple winners - 5 drivers will win a rally in 2020

1 wrong
2 wrong
3 correct Sardegna P1 to P3 just 6.1 seconds
4 wrong
5 correct achieved on 6th round

[TheFlyingTuga]

1 - Neuville will be WC
2 - Hyundai will make two in a row for Manufactures Champ.
3 - Ford will win in Safari
4 - Ogier will be pissed with the team from Portugal forward. Will still be in the mix for the champ until last round
5 - Rovanpera will not finish a rally normally. He will finish every round under rally2

1. Wrong... At this point it will be as Hirvonen or Latvala. Good for wins, will challenge for the champ, will never win it.
2. Right... Adamo is a winner. Let's go number 3
3. Well, no Safari...
4. Kind of right. Ogier sometimes was critic but in the end it was him again
5. Got this one very wrong. Great season by the kid.