[WRC] News & rumours (part IV) 2016

[dimviii]

No idea what that means but nevermind. It is not me who posts his tweets here on the forum, think about that....

I ve post also tweets from Mads,Capito,Latvala. Do I rate them also high?

[stefanvv]

I ve post also tweets from Mads,Capito,Latvala. Do I rate them also high?

Capito? Didn't know. Why You don't rate them high? Don't tell me, I know.

[smsgrafica]

I think an Ogier - Meeke team would be the best rivalry since Sainz - McRae at Subaru.

Please WRC God, make it happen!!!

[Allez Andruet]

Latvala's situation isnt very good then at the moment.

Especially, if Jouhki is telling the truth and not playing games in this article:

http://yle.fi/urheilu/3-9269172

Jouhki says that it will be "really hard" to find Jari-Matti a seat in WRC for 2017.

I don't know, that might ofcourse be the case, but somehow I just don't buy that. Yet atleast. Given the long history (and it goes way back to 1989-1990) there is between Jouhki and Mäkinen, it's just hard to believe that they wouldn't keep each other "aware" of what's going on.

[SubaruNorway]

They would use swedish with Mikkelsen.

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His english is not bad but he's spent his life driving cars not speaking in front of people all his life like some of the other team bosses.
I don't think Tommi actually speaks Swedish.

[Simmi]

Especially, if Jouhki is telling the truth and not playing games in this article:

http://yle.fi/urheilu/3-9269172

Jouhki says that it will be "really hard" to find Jari-Matti a seat in WRC for 2017.

I don't know, that might ofcourse be the case, but somehow I just don't buy that. Yet atleast. Given the long history (and it goes way back to 1989-1990) there is between Jouhki and Mäkinen, it's just hard to believe that they wouldn't keep each other "aware" of what's going on.

If it's true that Lappi and Suninen were the chosen candidates at Toyota (reported in MN today) then that is a difficult situation for Jouhki. Does he sh*t on his future prospect to make way for a current (fading?) star. Or does he go with youth and ensure Suninen gets on the ladder. Same thing with EVEN who are trying to get Lappi a seat, and now have competition in the form of Mikkelsen.

[macebig]

Jouhki's first priority is to secure a lucrative buy-out of JML's VW contract.Making it look like its difficult to find a new drive will help him with the negotiations.I am confident JML already has an agreement in place with Toyota,but they are laying low to help Latvala snatch a good compensation from Volkswagen.

[Simmi]

Jouhki's first priority is to secure a lucrative buy-out of JML's VW contract.Making it look like its difficult to find a new drive will help him with the negotiations.

Not criticising. But can you explain this theory more? I don't understand.

[macebig]

Simple thing.Jouhki makes the situation look like Latvala can't find a drive for 2017.Then he can "blame" the late VW decision for that and pressurize the Germans into inflating Latvala's buy out paycheck.Managerial mind tricks,to put it simple.

[Allez Andruet]

If it's true that Lappi and Suninen were the chosen candidates at Toyota (reported in MN today) then that is a difficult situation for Jouhki. Does he sh*t on his future prospect to make way for a current (fading?) star. Or does he go with youth and ensure Suninen gets on the ladder. Same thing with EVEN who are trying to get Lappi a seat, and now have competition in the form of Mikkelsen.

http://www.mtv.fi/sport/ralli/uutine...miinsa/6148326
I hope Mäkinen has found time today to talk to the representatives of Ogier and Latvala somewhere in between giving interviews to the Finnish media

In this article, Mäkinen pretty clearly says that Hänninen is the only one who has a SIGNED contract and adds, that even though the two other contracts have also been "agreed on general level", "changes are possible".