Toyota announces WRC plans

[Sulland]

Did they not say they will produce a R5 to gain experience on, before the WRCar?
Has that been abandoned?

[bluuford]

Katsuta at 2015

https://youtu.be/CW9j49W4-k0

We have new talen here, shy, hiding in the bushes: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CZ6IjhJWkAAeLYg.jpg Picture from today Lapland Rally

[Rallyper]

Right car, wrong guy.

[Mariusz]

Bouffier may be the next testdriver, especially testing for asphalt!

Kubica would be even better. I think nobody can beat him in driving on tarmac.

[EightGear]

Kubica would be even better. I think nobody can beat him in driving on tarmac.

How many rallies did he win again?

[Mariusz]

How many rallies did he win again?

I don't know, just check on the Internet.

[N.O.T]

How many rallies did he win again?

the main problem with drivers with big fan bases is that they bring hordes of useless people with them. How many of those are going to stay in the sport now that Kubica got kicked out like a dog ? probably 60% of them will go with him, around 20% will leave after a few months and the rest might stay because they were rally fans in the first place and followed the sport for what it offers and not because their boyfriend joined.

now we hear voices about Kubica to become a test driver, because they think that a good test driver is the one who can drive like a madman up and down a road he has done a million times.

woof woof...

[Mariusz]

In a perfect world they would bring hordes of true rally fans. Hopefully you're not the 'elite', because I prefer these hordes of 'useless' fans as you call them who go to the stages, spend days in any weather to cheer their drivers and make numbers so sponsors see that there are people interested in sport instead of some grumpy old farts whose girlfriends got booted earlier and now they only complain about everything and bring nothing good to the sport.

[N.O.T]

I am not that old.

It will be interesting to see now that Kubica was thrown out of the sport if the people who supported him stay with the sport or follow him to the motorsport landfill.

[Mirek]

Even if 5% of them stay with the sport in a long term he still brought thousands to it. Anyway I don't see anything wrong with bringing huge interest about rallying even if only for couple of years. Quite the opposite. He made a huge promotion for WRC and the fact he failed doesn't change anything about it. In fact it brought a lot of reputation to the series from the fans of circuit racing as they saw how difficult it is for circuit stars to win something in rallying (Raikkonen did that too).