[WRC] News & rumours (part III)

[Roy]

He will do Dakar and selected rounds in WRC. WRC2 is nonsense for him...

And World Rallycross? Prokop said he liked it very much. Could we see him in at RX circuits?

[PLuto]

And World Rallycross? Prokop said he liked it very much. Could we see him in at RX circuits?

Everything is possible. But I think there is bigger chance to see him in normal circuits...

[itix]

I love that everybody is saying that Ott always crashes but not Meeke. Meeke had more offs this year than Ott.
Meeke-Germany,Italy,Mexico,Monte,Sweden,Finland
Ott- Wales,Monte,Mexico,Spain,Germany(small off at the beginning)- in Argentina he was unlucky to hit a rock in a watersplash and in Sardinia the car gave up.

While Meeke has more WRC starts than Ott.

Oh no, I am completely with you on that. Meeke had a strong finish to his season but if you ignore that, Argentina was pretty much the only rally he didn't crash.
I'd still rate Meeke higher than Ott because he was challenging the VW podium monopoly on almost every rally and Ott only on one or two.

[MrJan]

While Meeke has more WRC starts than Ott.

Well that's not really true, not in realistic terms. While Meeke has more WRC starts as a whole, most of those have been in JWRC etc. Counting up on ewrc it looks like he's had 26 in an actually WRC car, while Tanak has 30.

I agree that Meeke is still in the 'crash' category, but he's also got a raw pace that I don't think we've seen from Tanak (don't get me wrong, I think Ott is a great driver and deserves a WRC drive). You can see why McRae was a fan of Meeke, he's a flat out, flat broke kind of driver.

[AL14]

Who said Tanak is slow is not that wrong.
Tanak has sparks of great speed that show potential, he won some stages and setted some top3 stage times. But for most of the rallys he had a not so little gap from top drivers even when he didn't crash, and also on gravel.

[rage82]

David Richards helping Tommi with Toyota WRC? : https://www.facebook.com/Sportautohe...42734089257733
Not sure there's something true in this however!

[EstWRC]

You have to know on which rally and stages the driver was pushing and not. If you just look at the stage times then it may look that the driver was slow. You could say that Meeke and Paddon were also slow on many rallies. Meeke in Poland for example but we know that he wasnt even trying there.

i would say Tänak was really pushing in Poland, Finland (1st and 2nd stage, hit a rock on second stage and that was it), Australia (Friday, Saturday), Spain (Day one on gravel), Portugal (Day one, made a wrong tyre choice for second day and settled in for 5th place after that).

if he would be slow then he wouldnt be in WRC

[dimviii]

# WRC - Hyundai develop an ... R5 and R2!

The engineer Andrea Adamo (eg Abarth) was designated by Hyundai to participate in the development of future i20 R5 who participate in certain ERC handles with Kevin Abbring at the wheel. A Hyundai i20 R2 would also developing arrive much later.

Source: Rally.it

[dimviii]

watch which photos liked most from wrc.com lolololol They are useless,even to choose the right photos
http://www.wrc.com/en/wrc/news/decem...medium=twitter

[mousti]

From Lavadinho that's not really a surprise

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