[WRC] News & rumours (part IV) 2016

[liposh]

I see Toyota say they picked Latvala over Mikkelsen as he 'has a lot more experience'.

OK, but why pick Lappi over Mikkelsen? I know there was agreement before VW quit, but as you can see in Lappi´s contract it is officially only "Test driver" job. Lappi can´t say a word if Tommi uses Mikkelsen as third driver. ...but Tommi didn´t pick Mikkelsen.

[Andre Oliveira]

MANUFACTURER ENTRANTS:


CITROËN TOTAL ABU DHABI WRT
(CITROËN C3 WRC)

HYUNDAI MOTORSPORT
(HYUNDAI i20 COUPE WRC)

M-SPORT WORLD RALLY TEAM
(FORD FIESTA WRC)

TOYOTA GAZOO RACING WRC
(TOYOTA YARIS WRC)

[Fast Eddie WRC]

MANUFACTURER ENTRANTS:


CITROËN TOTAL ABU DHABI WRT
(CITROËN C3 WRC)

HYUNDAI MOTORSPORT
(HYUNDAI i20 COUPE WRC)

M-SPORT WORLD RALLY TEAM
(FORD FIESTA WRC)

TOYOTA GAZOO RACING WRC
(TOYOTA YARIS WRC)

Confirming no official Ford entry and no seperate DMack team.

[Andre Oliveira]

Interesting,

Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT should sounds better (World Rally Team)

and Hyundai announced Hyndai Shell Mobis WRT and used again Hyundai Motorsport

[mousti]

Confirming no official Ford entry and no seperate DMack team.

That doesn't confirm anything around DMack, they aren't a manufacture..

[Rallyper]

Time will tell if i say rubbish.For sure i will admit it if i am mistaken.One question ,what makes you feel optimistic about yaris wrc?

I like to be optimistic. But in Toyota case on the contrary I´m not bashing, that´s all.

[skarderud]

Capito going to leave McLaren apparently, already, or other plans?

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[Fast Eddie WRC]

C.Clark: Got to wonder what's going on ! Stand down Elfyn supporters, no announcement now for at least a couple of days. Still very hopeful though..

[Essaj]

Picking Latvala over Mikkelsen is a joke. The only team in WRC who would do this is Toyota. Experience is a good thing but it doesn't help much when your driving is **t in 50% of the rallies..
Was really looking forward to see Toyota back in the game but i can't see how they will succeed if they keep on making this kind of stupid decisions.
Also, having the HQ in the deep forests in Finland instead of Cologne... Apparently people working with rally is just shaking their heads and wondering whats going on.

Are you by any change, Erik Veiby in disguise with "c" and "living in england" thing?
Well to be fair, I would have also picked Mikkelsen over Latvala anyday of the week.

Distance from the "deep forests of Finland" to most of the rallies is pretty fking insane so hopefully they manage to fly the cars from Finland preferably from Jyvaskyla airport which is like 10km's from their workshop to where ever they are racing. Doing that trip with trucks every time takes like million years.
But aren't they allowed to test freely in Finland since they are located there? Then they happen to have thousands of kilometers of the best rally roads of the world right on their doorstep, which can't be a bad thing.

[rallyfiend]

But aren't they allowed to test freely in Finland since they are located there? Then they happen to have thousands of kilometers of the best rally roads of the world right on their doorstep, which can't be a bad thing.

Which is good for testing for Finland and Poland, and a bit of Sweden.

Not so good for basically every other rally on the calendar!

And all testing is restricted to a number of days...