2016 Silly Season

[PLuto]

In WRC it is quite different, you cannot choose from more compounds, tyres must be more universal and must survive more kms...

[dimviii]

In WRC it is quite different, you cannot choose from more compounds, tyres must be more universal and must survive more kms...

thats not difficult for them when there is no competition and everybody uses the same tyre.
The difficult is to create a competetive tyre when there are more than one tyre suppliers.
And as we saw this year thats not a problem for Pirelli ,even if they were absent at wrc/erc as they were focused at f1 circus.
Pirelli we have to mention that is about 4 times smaller company from Michelin(according to sales 26 bn vs 7,5 bn )
Not bad..

[PLuto]

Michelin was sleeping last years as they were dominating. They were also pushing for unique tyres for ERC, they were only one ready at the beginning, but now they were overpassed...

[EstWRC]

https://twitter.com/WorldofRally/sta...35969413742593

[macebig]

I wouldnt bet at that but if Ostberg hasnt sign with Wilson the only place that could be opened is Neuville's seat at Hyundai.

[bluuford]

https://twitter.com/WorldofRally/sta...35969413742593

If you think out of the box, then why not PH Sport Citroen? That is a new team for him:-) M-Sport sounds like going back, not new ;-)
Final option is Toyota, a new team + maybe some rallies with rented M-Sport cars like they have done so-far. Sooner or later they must find some drivers for them, I mean real drivers not just juniors.

[EstWRC]

You may be right. The sentence "new team " is very interesting there. Like you said m-sport isn't new for him.

[AMSS]

thats not difficult for them when there is no competition and everybody uses the same tyre.
The difficult is to create a competetive tyre when there are more than one tyre suppliers.
And as we saw this year thats not a problem for Pirelli ,even if they were absent at wrc/erc as they were focused at f1 circus.
Pirelli we have to mention that is about 4 times smaller company from Michelin(according to sales 26 bn vs 7,5 bn )
Not bad..

That's exactly were Pirelli proved they're behind. Their tyre is fast I admit but only on a limited distance. This was clear on every rally, beginning of loops Kubica was fast but towards the end he lost time almost always. Or had punctures or had massive tyre wear. Same thing with all wrc cars on Pirellis. This was openly admitted from as well Kubica as Prokop. Also Nasser confirmed he made a mistake when changing to pirellis for one rally based on a short test. In Poland Michelin brought a specific tyre for wrc2 and were again setting the pace. So still some catching up to do in my opinion but it's good that there's competition even there!

[Rally Power]

Pirelli we have to mention that is about 4 times smaller company from Michelin(according to sales 26 bn vs 7,5 bn )
Not bad..

Btw, Pirelli was bought during the year by a chinese company. No funding problems ahead, but a chinese logo can appear one of this days on the italian tyres...

[Mirek]

That's not going to happen in forseenable future. Pirelli is a well respected brand and the Chinese bought it as such. They don't need to downgrade the brand by renaming it to some Chinese noname. The Chinese are anything but stupid.