Quote Originally Posted by nafpaktos View Post
I think now the french school will be on the top for the next many years,the finnish school i think has just finnished.for every single finnish driver in the international scene there will be 10 from france.after france i belive in the future estonian school will be stable on the second place.i wonder what are they doing in italy and in england.italy always has good drivers but they stay on the domestic championsip,they are not used to do rallies abroad.about england what can i say?i have never understood the way they think about rallies and espessially about abroad rallies.
Regarding Italy yes, the three faster drivers in national champioship doesn't move from there, I don't know why actually, I don't want to think that they don't want to compare themself with other people that can be faster than them and are pleased by their podium after rallyes they know by heart. But, really I don't know much about them, although I'm italian. I have no interest in national champioship and I won't bother you explaining the reasons.

But I'm curious about Tempestini. He's shown good pace lately and he's doing a good job both in ERC and in JWRC. But know what? He drives mostly with romanian flag. It has been "raised" in his career with the help of romanian federation (his father has a company there if I remember well, and I think he his somewhat romanian too, but he's italian in a first instance). That is way far from french mentality and way far from golden ages in '70s and '80s. In summary, do not expect italian world champions for near future.