2022 WRC News & Rumours

[bandit12]

More of the stuff, especially relating to Breen, written word for word if you want to try it with translator.

Bloody hell. If that is true... What are they gaining if they manage to get Breen to leave?

[mknight]

Bloody hell. If that is true... What are they gaining if they manage to get Breen to leave?

There are two lines of speculation

- make room for Tanak (or someone else)

- save money and only continue with paydrivers

[AndyRAC]

Bloody hell. If that is true... What are they gaining if they manage to get Breen to leave?

Agree, that was my reaction after reading it. I'm always sceptical about these things - but that is damning. I've no reason to not believe what he says.

[Jarek Z]

It's a weird situation with people like Greensmith, Fourmaux, Loubet, Katsuta and Solberg in Rally1 when they should maybe still be in WRC2, and on the contrary people like Mikkelsen, Östberg, Suninen and Paddon sitting in WRC2 waiting for Rally1 seats.

Yes, I sometimes think that rallying as a sport is turned upside down

[Danny0405]

Thanks for the info.
Is FFSA backing the 3 year program you cited?

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They helped him during the first 2 years (as a secondary backer) but as far as I know, there is almost nothing this year after his hard 2021 season so that Loubet had to find smaller sponsors to complete what is brought by the big investor I evoked.
Fourmaux doesn’t have many help from FFSA this year but for different reason: FFSA thought it was now on the track for his career with Red Bull and M-Sport so they preferred on other guys.

Well, hard choice for FFSA for next year: they have 3 drivers that are probably in the top 15 (Rossel, Fourmaux, Loubet) which is what it needed to be a professional driver but they’re all in the last third of this top 15. So none of them can obtain a seat without some backing. Probably that FFSA will have to make a choice between the 3 in its backing, depending also on some external help.

[doubled1978]

Agree, that was my reaction after reading it. I'm always sceptical about these things - but that is damning. I've no reason to not believe what he says.

I mean I can understand MSport management being somewhat frustrated at how the season has panned out after Monte, but if they are sending shitty text messages to drivers, that seems juvenile at best.
Breen seemed to not be in a great frame of mind from the start in Ypres, his interviews were a bit ‘edgy’, and it clearly didn’t get any better, as soon as he started showing any pace he was on his roof. Is this relationship already smashed?

[bandit12]

And you all say, that Adamo was a d*ck...

[mknight]

And you all say, that Adamo was a d*ck...

Adamo at his "best" was kicking people after one rally even after they were officially announced for next:
- Loeb after 6th in Monte 2020 (not exactly kicked but asked "do you really want to go to Sweden?", Loeb then only had 1 more "goodbye" start at Hyundai)
- Mikkelsen after 7th in Chile 2019, he got bad start then was told to finish after Neuville crashed and did that, only to be kicked anyway (he was 2nd on rally before and 3rd on the one after)

Both of these were officially announced for next rally.

Breen is still driving Greece after basically the worst string since Duval in 2005 (maybe I forgot someone?)

[becher]

Can somebody please explain this pressure of being the team leader/main/no. 1 driver that Breen is supposed to have that's making him crumble? What the hell are you all talking about?

Agree, apart from a few good events in the past, he was usually not very fast or made mistakes.

[steve.mandzij]

Adamo at his "best" was kicking people after one rally even after they were officially announced for next:
- Loeb after 6th in Monte 2020 (not exactly kicked but asked "do you really want to go to Sweden?", Loeb then only had 1 more "goodbye" start at Hyundai)
- Mikkelsen after 7th in Chile 2019, he got bad start then was told to finish after Neuville crashed and did that, only to be kicked anyway (he was 2nd on rally before and 3rd on the one after)

Both of these were officially announced for next rally.

Breen is still driving Greece after basically the worst string since Duval in 2005 (maybe I forgot someone?)

Yeah, you forgot Fourmaux.

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