[WRC] News & rumours (part III)

[RS]

ERC is not a waste of time but it is not something you can harvest talent from.

Then where is?

[RS]

Do you think they want to go back to ERC?

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.

[peter_85]

If M-Sport are monopolists in WRC private cars, how come Raikonen had Citroen when was in WRC?

Man, we are talking about 2015 season, not about how it was five years ago.

Still I'm wondering, how many times his car is broken because of used parts?

Enough to start thinking about quit WRC.

[Franky]

Man, we are talking about 2015 season, not about how it looks like in the past years.

Enough to start thinking about quit WRC.

Money rules the world. Budget determines the number of possible cars.

If he thinks that worn parts are behind his misfortune, then it might be best to retire. Because the real problem is the inability to keep the car on the road.

[stefanvv]

Man, we are talking about 2015 season, not about how it looks like in the past years.

I don't think the situation is different. True, most of the privateers has been driving Ford recent years, but Raikonen is some exception, isn't he? May be he just pays more?!?

Enough to start thinking about quit WRC.

Fair assessment. I also think his future is not in WRC, most likely on circuits.

[peter_85]

I don't think the situation is different.

Yeah of course, but it just your opinion.

By the way, you know what is Malcolm Wilson's favourite song?
Dire Straits - Money For Nothing

[Franky]

Yeah of course, but it just your opinion.

Why do you think the situation is different?

During the Citroen C4 era privateers such as Kimi Räikkönen, Urmo Aava and Conrad Rautenbach have used Citroen. In the Xsara period there were numerous privateers.

[Rallyper]

A man like Kubica who´s also paying big money just want the best parts. Maybe he found out something this year and wanted Citroen because he´d get the best. Maybe so. True is that Ford (M-Sport) has two cars with the very best classified parts. 3rd and4th drivers use older parts (not second hand, only parts that gives less performance). At least that was the case a couple ot years ago.

[peter_85]

Why do you think the situation is different?

During the Citroen C4 era privateers such as Kimi Räikkönen, Urmo Aava and Conrad Rautenbach have used Citroen. In the Xsara period there were numerous privateers.

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

[stefanvv]

Yeah of course, but it just your opinion.

No, just facts. Winning factory team cars were always little more harder to get to, than always customer friendly Ford (not always M-Sport btw).

By the way, you know what is Malcolm Wilson's favourite song?
Dire Straits - Money For Nothing

Ha-ha. You forget one thing, in market economy, the customer controls the market. That is another fact.
Wilson just makes cars on affordable price, and that seem to be a good thing in WRC crisis times. For sure customers don't expect spacecraft technology, do they?