Young talented drivers

[Zeakiwi]

First win for the MC2.
http://tinyurl.com/qx3ej7h (Kelsey)
http://youtu.be/poyfCb60uWk

[Rallyper]

Ole Christian veiby, Steve Røkland and Marius Aasen, is probably the next guys from norway.
Veiby was 3.rd in monte in wrc3, has the same managment as lappi and Mikkelsen, and enough money in the system to bring him to his potential.

Even in these times when oilprices is low?

[Ounin]

If you have talent you need one thing, loads of money, doesn't matter where it comes from. Hope Veiby is not drawing all the available sponsorship away from Røkland and Aasen ...

[skarderud]

Veiby's father own betong øst, the biggest concrete Company i South/East of norway. I think money is not an issue.
He sponsor Steve too, atleast before. But noone of the other too has him as main sponsor.
Aasen doing fiesta jrwrc (or what its called), Røkland is in jr erc. Exiting to follow them this season!

[stefanvv]

what happened to Kristiansen? Is he doing well?

[AL14]

If you have talent you need one thing, loads of money, doesn't matter where it comes from. Hope Veiby is not drawing all the available sponsorship away from Røkland and Aasen ...

I think you need help before than money. Money helps a lot but if you don't have them you should be helped by your federation. FFSA is doing a good job. As far as I know Loeb and Ogier weren't that rich but they become champions. I love rally, a lot, but I hate this money staff, it's a shame that you should have a rich dad to have a career. It's difficult to understand for someone new to the sport. It doesn't happen in other sports. Ok, they're not expensive like rally but it's a shame a lot of talents are bricklayers while Bertelli is in the world championship and he doesn't know the difference between a trench and a road.
Other federations should follow the example of FFSA imo. Even if they have not the same money, it's also a matter of culture.

[vino_93]

I don't want to be negativ, but I'm not impressed at all by Aasen. We know he'll not be a future star. It will be his 3rd year in JWRC, and he shows nothing the first two.
Rokland let's see. For sure, he is fast on snow. JERC is a good competition, we'll quickly see what he can do on gravel and tarmac.
Veiby ... the first thing I've seen don't make me think he'll be a future top driver too. But he doesn't have a lot of experience, so let's see. Maybe on gravel he can do better things ...

[Ounin]

I think you need help before than money. Money helps a lot but if you don't have them you should be helped by your federation. FFSA is doing a good job. As far as I know Loeb and Ogier weren't that rich but they become champions. I love rally, a lot, but I hate this money staff, it's a shame that you should have a rich dad to have a career. It's difficult to understand for someone new to the sport. It doesn't happen in other sports. Ok, they're not expensive like rally but it's a shame a lot of talents are bricklayers while Bertelli is in the world championship and he doesn't know the difference between a trench and a road.
Other federations should follow the example of FFSA imo. Even if they have not the same money, it's also a matter of culture.

No it's is not necessary to have a rich dad at all, like I said it's really not important where money comes from. Support from a federation helps a lot, like FFSA but also in Netherlans (KNAF Talent first) and the Belgium RACB; they pushed Neuville ahead, now they are helping Gino Büx in JERC. Thing is there comes a point a federation's budget is by far not enough for a contract further up, then it is serious business. Big advantage of this time is that there is demand for talents, there are quite some manufacturers who would like to have a guy capable of beating the Ogier-VW-thing... The gap between mileage and manufactures attention needs to be filled in by sponsor who is enthusiastic and supportive for a young guy.

[PLuto]

I don't want to be negativ, but I'm not impressed at all by Aasen. We know he'll not be a future star. It will be his 3rd year in JWRC, and he shows nothing the first two.

Aasen was not doing JWRC last year, when JWRC switched to Citroens, he stayed in DMack Fiesta Trophy. I think it will not help him so much in his career to continue in this series...

[PLuto]

what happened to Kristiansen? Is he doing well?

Petter's priority this year is norwegian championship, where he continues with Impreza Sti and he is fast there. As there are termine colisions with JERC, he decided not to start in JERC this year. And his Fabia R2 is sold now. But I hope we will see him also on some ERC rounds this year