2016 Silly Season

[tommeke_B]

+1. His Monte should be quite good, I'd even say no matter what the conditions are. He's from Nice, he should know the rally very well, even with little experience as a driver, and his driving looks smart enough to do a great Monte. A year ago I described his style as "Loeb-ish" (I think it was in the young drivers thread), I'm sure it still applies to him. It will be a very interesting driver to follow, very interesting career-path so far. Who knows how much kms he has tested with the Yaris WRC?

[dimviii]

Who knows how much kms he has tested with the Yaris WRC?

thousands i read before some days,but cant remeber where.

[dodge33cymru]

Good point on that, had completely forgotten - thanks for the reminder that he could well have a fair amount of experience with the TMG car.

[EstWRC]

2000 Kms, so he isn't that new to WRC car. I'm also interested how he will do on snow and gravel. Wouldn't be surprised if he is good on Tarmac.

[AL14]

The fact with Camilli is this.
Malcom Wilson had not the results he wanted from his young drivers. Evans didn't improve in speed the year when he should most, and Tanak showed sparks of it but finished as the last of the manufacturers drivers due to his inconstistency in both of staying in the road and in speed.

He had three options (I will list them in real Lundefaret style):
I will not consider only easy money as a variable. If Fiesta don't get real results he will sell less of them so he has to bring home podiums and stage wins.

1) give those guys another chance after two years. Was it worth it? I don't think so. If the outcome is almost the same after 2 full years something went wrong and in the third year it will not change too much. The only exception could be made for Tanak and in fact he will contest all rounds but in the DMACK Fiesta with tires he already knows and with a team wthat does not put as much as pressure.

2) Take one of the two drivers. The same goes for this option. Tanak will have his chances with DMACK, Evans would likely be a loss of time.

3) Get rid of them and try again with another young gun. Consider you already have an experienced, consistent and podium-winner driver that will assure you some more performance troughout the year. Now you have to choose the young boy (and with young I don't mean age which does not count that much in rally but experience, that count very much).
Let's make a list of them:

- Tidemand: VAG boy with a contract. Impossible to bring in.
- Lappi: same here.
- Lefebvre: Citroen boy. Impossible to bring in.
- Kubica: not actually a young gun, but he could have been an option. I won't write too much about him otherwise we will talk only of it. But well, Kubica is discarded from the list.
- Breen: it could have been an option but his outings with WRCs were not the most performing, he had a very unlucky season in 2014. I think that judging from his codriver tweet the morning after Camilli was announced he has been considered.
- Camilli: and only one remained. Our french guy won rallye de jeunes and despite his long break and few outings, he showed potential. Of course he did not win anything etc... But he was the only reasonable prospect of the only reasonable option that Wilson had at the end of the season.

[XXX]

What about Brynildsen?
45 WRC races, and the only guy who challenged Tidemand and Lappi in Finland with Dmack tyres.
And in Sweden he was quicker than Tidemand, also with dmack tyres.

[Mirek]

Brynildsen has been around for many years and it seems to me that he likely already reached his top. We can hardly find some improvement of his results from what was four or five years a go. He isn't bad but I doubt he has any potential to further growth of performance.

[tommeke_B]

What about Brynildsen?
45 WRC races, and the only guy who challenged Tidemand and Lappi in Finland with Dmack tyres.
And in Sweden he was quicker than Tidemand, also with dmack tyres.

How about Southern gravel rallies and tarmac rallies? WRC is much more than the 2 Nordic events, in which he is great. Also in Wales he should do well I think. Brynildsen is a very nice driver to see, providing a lot of spectacle, but I think his brutal driving style doesn't help him much on more technical events.

[XXX]

He won RACC rally a couple of years ago. And in GB he won the Great Orm stage on tarmac with poor brakes, over 4 seconds quicker than Breen.

[Mirek]

No sure if You are serious. He won class N4 in RACC in 2009 when he was the only driver with the S2000 car on start. Others were with ordinary gr.N cars.

When I look in his statistics he has never win a single event of SWRC/WRC2 while he has been competing for 6 years. His only victory in Wales 2009 was spoiled by a disqualification which wasn't his fault but anyway it was already 6 years a go. Unfortunately there has been no visible progress through the years.