[WRC] News & rumours (part III)

[EightGear]

They can do that now, if they want.

Only one of the drivers is in a Manufacturer Team is fixed, the other can circulate as they see fit. Who has done that so far?

In some way Hyundai did something like that last year.

[kirungi okwogera]

In some way Hyundai did something like that last year.

Didn't Hyundai do it this year bringing Hayden Paddon up in Sordo's place when he was injured? Or do you mean actually basing team strategy around substituting surface/local specialists on certain events?

[EightGear]

Didn't Hyundai do it this year bringing Hayden Paddon up in Sordo's place when he was injured? Or do you mean actually basing team strategy around substituting surface/local specialists on certain events?

No, this year in Sweden it was down to circumstances. Last year they rotated mainly between Sordo and Hanninen. Atkinson also got some rounds.

And yes, with surfaces etc. in mind. Hanninen in Sweden and Wales for example, Sordo on tarmac.

[Andre Oliveira]

But needed pre nomination. It is different have f.e. Ogier - Latvala - Mikkelsen, and if Ogier out, Latvala wins and Mikkelsen second scores 1-2 for Volkswagen Motorsport, instead only Latvala points.

[Eli]

http://www.maxrally.com/2015/07/23/i...a-china-crisis are they serious???? kicking out Wales Rally GB for China?????????? what's wrong with them???

[stefanvv]

what's wrong with them???

everything

[Simmi]

Seems to me like Rally France (in whatever format) is the most at risk of the four. Wales GB has funding in place going forward. It's the complete opposite with the FFSA.

With Toyota coming in it could be a good time to open discussions with the manufacturers about an extension to 14 rounds. Plus this is all assuming China can even get their round ready for 2016.

[stefanvv]

Seems to me like Rally France (in whatever format) is the most at risk of the four. Wales GB has funding in place going forward. It's the complete opposite with the FFSA.

With Toyota coming in it could be a good time to open discussions with the manufacturers about an extension to 14 rounds. Plus this is all assuming China can even get their round ready for 2016.

I would agree about France. Though there is the origin of the sport, it is quite disappointing as WRC round, especially ran in Alsace recent years. I don't know how Corsica will happen this year, but I don't feed high hopes. Vote up for more rounds though, China or Japan, may be I prefer Japan.....

[Jack4688`]

http://www.maxrally.com/2015/07/23/i...a-china-crisis are they serious???? kicking out Wales Rally GB for China?????????? what's wrong with them???

At this stage I don't even care any more. For me the WRC is like F1 - I like the concept of it, but there is just too much about it that is done poorly.

I'm not interested in the type of cars that are used, the technical side of the current WRC cars, the rallies that have been lost to shit ones like Sardinia etc. the fact that the drivers don't give you the same sense from between 1990 until about 2003 that you were watching the best drivers in the world (think Auriol, Kankkunen, Gronholm Makinen, Sainz, young McRae, Burns, young Solberg), the poor TV coverage - endless chopper views and frustrating onboard views. This insistence that the WRC needs to be about the miserable cars and markets where the manufacturers sell them instead of brilliant cars tearing through forests and alpine passes while making un-godly noises.

They could replace Monte Carlo, GB and Finland with China, Jordan and Antarctica. They could reduce the minimum length of the cars even further so that the cars used are the VW Up, Ford Ka, Citroen C1 and Toyota Aygo. They could implement all those insane ideas Jost Capito scribbled on his toilet paper. I wouldn't care because they're just shooting a dead horse at this point.

[stefanvv]

At this stage I don't even care any more. For me the WRC is like F1 - I like the concept of it, but there is just too much about it that is done poorly.

I'm not interested in the type of cars that are used, the technical side of the current WRC cars, the rallies that have been lost to shit ones like Sardinia etc. the fact that the drivers don't give you the same sense from between 1990 until about 2003 that you were watching the best drivers in the world (think Auriol, Kankkunen, Gronholm Makinen, Sainz, young McRae, Burns, young Solberg), the poor TV coverage - endless chopper views and frustrating onboard views. This insistence that the WRC needs to be about the miserable cars and markets where the manufacturers sell them instead of brilliant cars tearing through forests and alpine passes while making un-godly noises.

They could replace Monte Carlo, GB and Finland with China, Jordan and Antarctica. They could reduce the minimum length of the cars even further so that the cars used are the VW Up, Ford Ka, Citroen C1 and Toyota Aygo. They could implement all those insane ideas Jost Capito scribbled on his toilet paper. I wouldn't care because they're just shooting a dead horse at this point.

It's not that much for a despair, we still could have nice photos with lakes and/or flowers, ahahah..... well, not from Jordan anyway.....