[WRC] News & rumours (part IV) 2016

[Simmi]

Judging by Twitter it looks like there is a Hyundai media event going on for the next two days. Wishful thinking for more 2017 news?

[kiil]

https://www.facebook.com/ADACRallye/...c_ref=NEWSFEED

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Some tarmac test...

[tolx]

Kreim is improving, but I am afraid he may (or may not) end up like Wiegand. Very fast but one step under the top. Nobody knows at the moment and it means Skoda Germany could be quite disappointed in next few years with second bad investment. OR He would reach the top and I would be the dummy

What happened to Wiegand? He just dissapeared from news 2 years ago.

[WUff1]

What happened to Wiegand? He just dissapeared from news 2 years ago.

He´s doing some very few (so far only 2 in 2016 - see ewrc-results.com) German rallies, local ones and also championship runs.

Most of his time he seems to be spending with cross biking and amateur street races, but not on a serious level.

[Mirek]

What happened to Wiegand? He just dissapeared from news 2 years ago.

Škoda Deutschland kicked him out after 2014 season (where he was until the very last event in the title battle with Lappi) and took Fabian Kreim instead (from Opel junior team). After that Wiegand hasn't managed to find sponsors for anything worth talking about. He just did several events with Orsák Rallysport team but when You do 1-2 events per year it's over with You. I still think he could have been given one more year as I wrote in German rally news thread though.

Regarding Kreim I think he needs at least one more season to judge him. Still the choice of him was a bit strange as Marian Griebel was faster of the two Opel drivers already back then.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Full info on their training weekend in the German rally championship:

Mads and Ola, this time in the Adapta Motorsport Ford Fiesta R5, were guests in Rally Lower Saxony this weekend. The event, which is a round of the German championship, gave the duo the opportunity to get useful asphalt training for German asphalt specialists before the next World Cup round, the Rally of Corsica.

"We travelled to the course with specific plans to train on several aspects to improve asphalt technology. I think we got very good results in terms. It is mentally much easier to train on new things in races that do not count, than when it be fought on World Ch'ship points. There will always be some trial and error when new things are evolved into, and it's not so easy when the urgency is there fully. we are very happy with what we got out of this over the weekend "

"The race came on short notice, and we did not have more than to put together a small but very talented team, which solved service tasks 100%. We did not have to study the slopes like we usually do, other than that we found out that there was much straight ahead, with many hard braking into the very many angles and weighted formulas. it looked really good for the training program we had set up. it did not, however, looked very good with the exchange we have in our transmission, as has a top speed of 178 km. our German competitors reached over 200 km on their cars. There is a gearbox with higher exchange to our car as well, but we have not available at the moment. In that sense we did not utilize the vehicle's capacity this time, but it had no bearing on what we were there for, he continues.

"We had teams of people around the track as observed and reported, we had close dialogue along the way. We got a lot out of what we worked on. We lost a lot where it went straight ahead. But got made measurements which showed good progress in time for braking area and speed out of turn. we will bring forward when we prepare for Tour de Corse, with the goal of getting a concrete development of pace from the last World Cup round on asphalt, where we finished in 6th place in Rally Germany", concludes Mads.

More http://www.wrc.com/en/wrc/news/septe...5--12-12-.html

[Rallyper]

Škoda Deutschland kicked him out after 2014 season (where he was until the very last event in the title battle with Lappi) and took Fabian Kreim instead (from Opel junior team). After that Wiegand hasn't managed to find sponsors for anything worth talking about. He just did several events with Orsák Rallysport team but when You do 1-2 events per year it's over with You. I still think he could have been given one more year as I wrote in German rally news thread though.

Regarding Kreim I think he needs at least one more season to judge him. Still the choice of him was a bit strange as Marian Griebel was faster of the two Opel drivers already back then.

In 2014 the fastest was Emil B, wasn´t it? Who mentions him? Even though he still struggles.

[Mirek]

In 2014 the fastest was Emil B, wasn´t it? Who mentions him? Even though he still struggles.

Emil obviously isn't German therefore there is no reason to speak about him in relation to Škoda Deutschland.

[Fly]

Škoda Deutschland kicked him out after 2014 season (where he was until the very last event in the title battle with Lappi) and took Fabian Kreim instead (from Opel junior team). After that Wiegand hasn't managed to find sponsors for anything worth talking about. He just did several events with Orsák Rallysport team but when You do 1-2 events per year it's over with You. I still think he could have been given one more year as I wrote in German rally news thread though.

Regarding Kreim I think he needs at least one more season to judge him. Still the choice of him was a bit strange as Marian Griebel was faster of the two Opel drivers already back then.

Kreim is three years younger than Griebel and was less experienced. I think that probably made the difference. A bit late for Griebel. Too bad: Speed and consistency are there.