[WRC] News & rumours (part IV) 2016

[pantealex]

Looks like a toy.

Yes but they actually drove it there, Citroen and Hyundai not...

[GigiGalliNo1]

Regarding NZ and the WRC

In 2017 they are holding the official Rally New Zealand over a weekend as the candidate rally for the FIA so it might just be back in 2018!

Fingers crossed for the event as I'll be heading over for it.

[dimviii]

At 28, Thierry Neuville loop his third season with the team Hyundai WRC. It interests many teams, including Citroen and his current employer, and Belgium agreed to discuss his future with our microphone.

"I have not decided for next year. Today there is no decision was taken. And everything is still open. We'll have to wait a little bit. Even for me, c is a phase where the forward wants to overtake me but we must wait and consider everything we are well advanced in negotiations Hopefully, by Spain (note: from 13 to 16 October).., have news. Everyone talks to me about this for five rallies. today, I can announce for nothing is nothing decided, "he detailed Thursday during the Tour de Corse.

At Hyundai, we ask some questions but we opted for the most obvious possible strategy: clarity. "We always negotiate because it wants to keep Thierry. It was the start and three seasons together. I do not know why this train, you have to ask to Thierry. We are optimistic and he knows very well what he can find in our team. for him to take stock and make a decision. I do not know who he still speaks now. on our side, it's very clear, "argued Alain Penasse, the builder's team manager Hyundai.


http://www.rtbf.be/sport/moteurs/ral...ons?id=9417673

[janvanvurpa]

Agreed to an extent
I think there is room for a variation in rally lengths, endurance 3 to 4 days or all nighter as well as sprint events, the beauty of rally is the variation in conditions, why not have a flexible format that can be manipulated by each host country...or not

Exactly that..If a local organisation can organise the manpower to pull off a longer event then give them the choice. Conditions about access and road permissions are a major hurdle, but there is no compelling reason to mandate a max SS kilometrage by rules--except a small minded do-anything-for-TV mistaken belief in "consistency" of the "package"...

Horses for courses..

Let locals decide..
All power to the Sovie .....


Wait. sorry, got carried away. Election year over here.

[Rally Power]

All power to the Sovie .....Wait. sorry, got carried away. Election year over here.

Sovi…is Sanders still on the race? Just kidding. Nice debate, btw. After this warm up I hope they put the gloves on for the next one. Nothing like seeing the world leader candidates having a fight, to restore the faith on human race…


Back to the topic and Toyoda’s flexibility argument. Amen, free routes and schedules should be the norm, not the copy paste 9 to 5 double loops, but probably that would be a hard way to get WRC into new publics (yes, we need them). Every sport has to have some kind of uniformization; that’s the best way to make them understandable to the public and gain new fans.

Honestly I think we can have competitive rallys with only 250 ss kms in one and a half days, as long we get rid of short running schedules and small loops routes. But besides those sprint lookalike events we must also have 4 or 5 old school long rallys on the WRC: a sort of Grand Slam, with two events in Europe (MC and GB), one in AP (NZ) and one on the Americas (ARG).

[aykutbilir]

For the WRC calendar Turkey has the agreement with FIA as I heard from official and annocement will be at 30th November with final schdule


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[COD]

I hope they find someone to do a proper livery before the season starts

[spiderem]

the i20 looks 2 times bigger than the yaris...

[Grundo Farb]

I hope they find someone to do a proper livery before the season starts

Putting lipstick on a Gorilla. That's the effect of a livery change...

[dodge33cymru]

the i20 looks 2 times bigger than the yaris...

The Quattro was twice the size of the 205; I'm looking forward to it!