Daniel Carlsson exluded for the rest of 2007

[jacko]

After his "show" on thursday he's exluded for the rest of the year. He hasn't the money so in that way there's nothing.. but he can't drive for another team if there was the question. Kronos will have another (to be named) driver for the remaining 3 rounds ( or 7?).

[Micke_VOC]

I dont like FIA, why punish the driver and not the team ,

[Slipzen]

FIA claims the reason is that he did not take part in the recce.....

[jonas_mcrae]

hope the new driver is someone interesting to watch.
of course not saying that carlsson wasnt.

[WRXedUSA]

What happened with Carlsson?

I searched the forum and found nothing.

[GigiGalliNo1]

exactly?! wat happened to carlsson that now he has been excluded? as you noticed not much news outta the WRC hq to inform me!!

that sucks...

[alleskids]

A Team Manufacterer has to compete in 10 WRC rounds with 2 drivers. Manfred Stohl is doing al 16 rounds. Daniel Carlsson was planned to do 5 rounds. So OMV Kronos already had to be looking for an other (paying) driver to do the other 5 required rounds, in order to score MT points and avoid a heavy money penalty. Now they have to bring the second driver much earlier in the team, since Daniel Carlsson's budget is disappeared.

[alleskids]

I guess the FIA also read about Carlsson's cheat plans to just do the shake down, drive over the starting ramp and immediatly retire after that. So Daniel did not even do the recce ? You don't think that even the FIA would not notice this ?
In the past they have punished drivers for not doing PWRC and JWRC rounds which they promissed to do in order to score for the championship, so it is a logical decision to punish the driver, and not the team, because the driver is not keeping his promise to the team and the FIA.

[MikeD]

I don't understand why Kronos and Carlsson thought they would get away with this. A good thing it was stopped.

But who could be candidates for the second seat now? I think Bengue would be a good bet for the 3 tarmac rallies. Doesn't he also have good relations with the YACCO sponsorship?

Who do you think could be candidates? (or should we say, who has the sponsorship package to compete)

[Peugeot206WRC]

According to Kronos and Daniel Carlsson they followed the rules but Carlsson still get excluded.
Im not sure about the recce rule, wich seems strange if they agree to do this and follow the rules but still get excluded, maybe Kronos and Carlsson missed that rule.

and alleskids what are you talking about "because the driver is not keeping his promise to the team".
It was a decision made by the driver AND the team, not only the driver.

I think FIA is really ridiculous even though Carlsson got himself to blame for this if he sing up and then cant pay (if thats the reason, not yet confirmed).