[WRC] News & rumours (part III)

[Franky]

Ok and now, please remind us how many privateers were using DS3WRC in 2014?

You answer a question with a question. Unless you know for sure that PH Sport doesn't rent out DS3 WRCs, then you should rest your case because your argumentation is next to none.

[peter_85]

You forget one thing, in market economy, the customer controls the market. That is another fact.

No, it's not fact, I'd rather called it a mirage.

[stefanvv]

No, it's not fact, I'd rather called it a mirage.

If You mean mirage by "I want the best, but the smallest price I can pay", You're far away from truth.

[Mariusz]

Of course not but first you have to get there, preferably with a manufacturer team, and have the skills to stay there. Kubica has the money but he was/is not ready as a driver.
I'm not saying the guys who came from E/IRC were fully developed either, but you can see from the season when he won WRC2 what the results were from his starts in ERC. When he was pushed harder, as he was when he stepped up to WRC, he kept falling off the road.

Jari-Matti Latvala had nothing of it and he's doing fine in WRC. ERC is not the only path to be a good rally driver.

[Bartek]

Jari-Matti Latvala had nothing of it and he's doing fine in WRC. ERC is not the only path to be a good rally driver.

You need to remember that JML is a proper rally driver and Robert is only a men in a rally driver suit...

BTW. Is it normal that sometimes even if you are wrong you are standing behind a back of a driver from your country?

BTW 2: "We sent an entry for the Rallye Monte-Carlo today. See you on the stages!" From RK Facebook

[christy but]

well I hope kubica stays in wrc.

[Franky]

Jari-Matti Latvala had nothing of it and he's doing fine in WRC. ERC is not the only path to be a good rally driver.

Jari-Matti Latvala has competed in JWRC 2004, in PWRC 2006, 2005 mostly Group N entries and from 2007 onwards in WRC. So you can't say he didn't come through the lower championships, be it national or WRC sub-championship

[RS]

Jari-Matti Latvala had nothing of it and he's doing fine in WRC. ERC is not the only path to be a good rally driver.

It hasn't exactly been a smooth ride for Latvala has it? Talented guy but also lucky to have had an extremely patient team manager all those years. Maybe it would have been better for his career in the long term if he had learned some discipline when he was young too?

[Mariusz]

Yes, it hasn't. The good thing he didn't quit when all this negativity was hitting him.

[stefanvv]

You need to remember that JML is a proper rally driver and Robert is only a men in a rally driver suit...

Anyone can be really, depending on him....

BTW 2: "We sent an entry for the Rallye Monte-Carlo today. See you on the stages!" From RK Facebook

Wohoo, good for him. I think the Rally is the best a driver can develop upon. Good luck!