Young talented drivers

[Rallyper]

Agree with Hartsvuori & MJW's posts.
Having seen some coverage of the French Opel Adam Cup, those boys are showing no mercy, they seem to be driving at 10 tenths. I would have liked to see a similar Cup in the UK; I guess Vauxhall aren't interested in rallying. But, a single make series using current cars would be nice - but might not be popular here; as MJW so rightly said.

The most popular rally series in the UK are the Historics - for many British rally fans, the Escort IS rallying.

I agree fully with Hartusvuori. Lack of money for Sweden and Finland. Obviously not in Estonia and Norway. And for sure there are good competition in France. I really hope they compete on gravel as well, because otherwise only tarmac isn´t enough being world champion in the future.

As mentioned above Emil Bergkvist today won Swedish sprint championship in old Astra Kit Car. I think besides PT he´s our coming man. Let´s hope he can bring his own funding and we´ll see.

[mousti]

Risto Immonen was showing his talent to the international audience with a old C2 R2 in JERC till his crash at Azores where his international season finished..

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[EightGear]

In the Netherlands we have to be very thankfull to the national federation, without their program no rallying talents would have been discovered.

Mats van den Brand seems to be the next hopeful. He won the D-Mack shootout at M-Sport and won an R5 start on a WRC round this year. I hope to see him in the D-Mack Cup at least this year. Then there is Leo van der Eijk who's fast too but there's no money since his sponsor stopped investing. Same story for Timo van der Marel, who had the same sponsor.

[PLuto]

Still I'm curious to see him in WRC2 for a full season.

Maybe you will see...

[PLuto]

Me too, I like Albertini, I hope he and Scatolon will have more chances and won't stay in CIR all life long.

Albertini was trying one season in Clio R3 European Trophy, but then he has returned home...

[PLuto]

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.

Tempestini's family is living in Romania for a long time. And Simone is starting with romanian licence from beginning. I dont know how much romanian federation was helping him, but most of the budget is found by his father. And the whole Napoca Rally Academy is not supporting only him, but also other drivers, like for example Florin Tincescu in JERC...

[Hartusvuori]

too many words... words words everywhere... keep it simple Hatrsu,,, i am a simple man, that is why i am awesome.

I relied on the fact you're so awesome you could see from a glimpse or reading between the first few lines, that it's just another Finnish post choking on bitter tears of years and years of humiliation. But I'll keep it simpler the next time :-)

[Hartusvuori]

Why?

Finnish tarmac roads are too fast. Too wide and in too good condition for rallying. If there is one odd road that would suit for a tarmac stage,mit's just one single stretch of road. Not a rally yet. And because of this, Finnish rally cars aren't having option of tarmac spec.

[vino_93]

@AL14
I would like to see albertini and scatolon to try abroad with a solid program and not one-off appearances. An irrelevant question,why a driver to choose adam cup,since opel doesnt get involved in high level on rallying,so less chances for the future.on the other hand peugeot volante......

I don't exactly have the cost, but Adam Cup cost less than 208 Cup. In France (and I think Germany), it's a full tarmac cup.
But it gives you an official drive. Opel did the german championship with Griebel (champion 2013) and Kreim (best junior 2013). This year Griebel will drive JERC with Opel, whereas Bergkivst will drive german championship (Griebel too ?). In France you have an official drive too (Bonato last year, Perry for this season). Unfortunately, Bonato who was ashtoning, has nothing more ... at the beginning there was rumor tha Opel could do a Corsa R5, so it attracts a lot of driver, but now it seems that won't happen ...

[vino_93]

Finnish tarmac roads are too fast. Too wide and in too good condition for rallying. If there is one odd road that would suit for a tarmac stage,mit's just one single stretch of road. Not a rally yet. And because of this, Finnish rally cars aren't having option of tarmac spec.

Isn't there some kinds of Rallysprint on tarmac ? Of course it's not a rally, but it can be a first contact with tarmac.