[WRC] News & rumours (part IV) 2016

[dimviii]

Eric Camilli will revert to former co-driver Benjamin Veillas for the rest of the FIA World Rally Championship season after splitting with Nicolas Klinger.

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Veillas partnered the 28-year-old Frenchman in WRC 2 last season, but when Camilli joined M-Sport World Rally Team this year it was confirmed that the experienced Klinger would partner him in the British squad’s Ford Fiesta RS.

The pair had a tough start to the 2016 campaign, retiring after hitting a tree at Rallye Monte-Carlo and then rolling heavily at Rally Sweden, and Veillas will return to the co-driver’s seat from next week’s Rally Guanajuato Mexico (3 - 6 March).

However, Camilli denied the accidents were behind the split.

“Nicolas and I were working very, very well in the car but we were not in the same line for the future. I didn’t have the same complicity as with Benjamin, so we prefer together to stop the partnership now,” Camilli told wrc.com.

“We were not working in the same way and I think that’s very important to succeed. In the car it worked very well, there were no problems. We went off twice in two rallies but that was not the issue. It’s more for human character reasons,” he added.

Veillas, who tested with Camilli in Spain on Thursday, co-drove for Julien Maurin in WRC 2 at Rallye Monte-Carlo. Klinger previously partnered Maurin for three seasons before joining with Camilli at the start of this season.

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[N.O.T]

Changing co-drivers is the first sign to failure. Happy landing Camilli the way down is loooong.

[Andre Oliveira]

Two first events Monte and Sweden is not fair to young driver

[N.O.T]

Camilis is was and will evolve to nothing, no surprise he was chosen by Makinen and his flop team.

[Fly]

Camilis is was and will evolve to nothing, no surprise he was chosen by Makinen and his flop team.

How do you know so soon? Sometimes you're right, sometimes you're not. I think you wrote some similar things about Paddon a few years ago.

[Sulland]

Panta will be the official fuel provider for wrc.

And by doing that they are rejecting huge sponsoring sums from petrol companies, that could use WRC as a testbed.
Even harder to get sponsors in a dry market. But I guess it is only F1 that could be used for testing......

[aykutbilir]

I think changing to Klinger is a wrong option not in person for sure. Every young driver attending to top class is force to get pair with a more experinced co driver. Im sure Camili will be better with Veillas because they are partners for a time.


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[OldF]

Camilis is was and will evolve to nothing, no surprise he was chosen by Makinen and his flop team.

Camilli chosed by Mäkinen’s team? I thought he was driving for M-Sport. And by the way, you don’t know a fuck what Mäkinen’s team is doing.

[N.O.T]

you don’t know a fuck what Mäkinen’s team is doing.

other than flopping ?

[Rallyper]

Two first events Monte and Sweden is not fair to young driver

It´s not fair stepping into WRC-team as 2nd driver with no experience. Still dont understand what Malcolm was thinking.