Silly Season 2022

[TypeR]

Let's hope not.

Let's hope they keep the pay/namedrivers to f1, we don't need Schumacher juniors in the wrc.

because rallying is free and nobody doesn't have to pay to drive right?

Everybody has paid in some stage of their career to get a seat.

What about Mick Schumacher? He should win in that pos Haas?

Without payimg we wouldn't have:
Greensmith
Fourmaux
Katsuta
Loubet
Solberg
Gryazin
Lappi (this year)
etc

[AnttiL]

Well we just talked about Solberg needing to drive one car to get stable... the current plans:
- test hybrid
- test and drive Rally2 in Finland
- test and drive current WRC in Spain before it's retired one rally later
-?

For sure it can get even more crazy, like sending him to an ERC round with the old R5 on MRFs...just wait.

Maybe an on off in USA in a Subaru?

[AnttiL]

Kristian Sohlberg said something about Solberg's co-driver change in his twitch stream a couple of days ago. Something like "I know more about this switch than there's on social media but I cannot say...let's just say that Aaron has a bright future ahead".

[er88]

Kristian Sohlberg said something about Solberg's co-driver change in his twitch stream a couple of days ago. Something like "I know more about this switch than there's on social media but I cannot say...let's just say that Aaron has a bright future ahead".

Could be an Adamo-led "decision" to strongly advise Solberg to change and go for more experience (especially if Oliver is running in the main team next year).

[Danny0405]

Adamo’s quote is quite strange because in Finland, neither Sordo nor Solberg will drive in RC1. So except if Breen is still in the mix, I don’t see what new element from now he would have with Finland...

Catalunya would sound more logical as both Sordo and Solberg will be there in RC1 (Monza is too late, we have seen on the last 5 years that you cannot save/obtain generally a seat for next year with a good performance in the last Rallye mid-november such as Mikkelsen in 2016 / Ostberg and Paddon in 2018)

Personnally, even if I think it is a bad idea (especially because comparing him with Rovanpera is quite wrong if we look at their respective RC2 results), the fact that Solberg has tested the hybrid car (+ makes a WRC drive in a tarmac rally) lets me think it is yet decided with a full-time drive for Solberg. But at least, for the first time, we could recognize that Hyundai take a real risk on a young driver (even if I’m worried it is more on his name than on his level).

[meh]

I just leave it here, seems correct thread:
https://twitter.com/HartusvuoriWRC/s...80735125979140

(sorry, duplicate)

[bandit12]

Doctor, you have been here allready.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Maybe it's not so crazy Solberg testing the Hyundai i20 hybrid as he has experience of 500+ bhp (in RX cars, also without the current WRC car downforce).

The current top WRC drivers may find it harder to adapt after 5 years than he does.

[AnttiL]

Kristian Sohlberg also said in his twitch stream that Renaud Jamoul made the call to quit co-driving for Fourmaux. Sohlberg thinks Lappi won't have the latest spec Yaris in Rally Finland. He also believes Suninen will do also Monza in a Hyundai Rally2 and continue there next year, and eventually start an event in their Rally1 car. He said Suninen was treated horribly at M-Sport, and the car was by no means competitive.

[mknight]

Lappi didn't have this years front aero (with different front fienders) on the test, how much difference there is underneath I don't know.

Well Gryazins pace in Rally2 Fiesta was quite some shock considering Suninen was level with Lappi for 1/3 of Portugal in similar conditions.

Which again makes one wonder why Breen (or anyone else who has a choice) should be very keen to go to MSport next year and automatically assume the car will be competetive.

Lappi in similar situation clearly seems to prefer part time at Toyota over trying full time at MSport.