[WRC] News & Rumours 2021

[AnttiL]

Just takes patience. Kalle was given three years to mature in WRC2 and national championships before going to WRC cars. And even then it took a full year in WRC car before he managed to win an event.

[er88]

first we'll have to see if he ever is going to be even a contender for a win.

Let's not get too down on Solberg now. The kid does have brilliant natural talent, and I'm confident he will get to the very top. However he does seem to be getting pushed too quickly by Adamo/his family (but at least as fans it's interesting to see how he gets on in spain).

Agree that he should do a full wrc2 season next year with maybe 2 or 3 drives in a rally 1 car.

[mknight]

Well in connection with this I am getting a bit tired of the "you can make a fast driver reliable but you can't make a reliable (and slow) driver fast" that gets now often repeated by J. Porter on ALLlive among others.

Often it seems that people assume that a it means you will make a fast driver reliable.

There is a lot of examples of fast drivers that never got reliable, detailed count might even show that the majority of fast and unreliable drivers never became reliable.
From the likes of Novikov and Duval to the more normal examples like Meeke.

How Solberg or even Rovanpera end up is still in the future. But the days when you can win championship while crashing every few rallies are definitely gone.

[TypeR]

Let the boy have his chances with WRC..
maybe Loubet should do next season also in wrc2?
He hasn't been neither fast nor reliable in WRC..
Fourmaux got the chance to drive slow Fiesta WRC and has shown some nice stage times + 1 proper stage win.

I hope to see Gryazin in top car some events next year.. He has tons of rallies under the belt and maybe faster car also suits him better..

[mknight]

I hope to see Gryazin in top car some events next year.. He has tons of rallies under the belt and maybe faster car also suits him better..

Well I didn't list Gryazin as an example of driver that never got reliable, mainly because he possibly still has long career ahead of him.

But his reliability is going backwards. Sure last year one could argue that it was the i20 which wasn't fast enough so he had to push more. But this year he crashes with Polo from leading positions all the time.

How would a different car change that I struggle to see.

[rp]

Let's not get too down on Solberg now. The kid does have brilliant natural talent, and I'm confident he will get to the very top. However he does seem to be getting pushed too quickly by Adamo/his family (but at least as fans it's interesting to see how he gets on in spain).
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Nothing against Oliver, but Adamo and Solberg family should do things differently. Without the doubt he has a lot of talent and seems to be a clever young man...

[AnttiL]

Now Solberg announced split with Johnston.

[mknight]

Now Solberg announced split with Johnston.

Well that's kind of the smallest surprise.

But from some of the onboards I have seen it's not like Johnston does something wrong. More that Solberg needs someone with authority.
Seb Marshall most likely?

[cali]

Who's next?

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[AnttiL]

My guess is Seb Marshall as well