[WRC] News & Rumours (part V) 2017

[N.O.T]

How could Toyota and the Brake Provider have not figured it out?

because they are run by a bunch of amateur nobodies.... the pain has just begun.

[danon]

.... the pain has just begun.

Take your painkillers!!!

[itix]

Take your painkillers!!!

Pain-killers for him would become suicide pills.

[dimviii]

Pacenotes Rally Magazine

Have to be careful with taking medication while competing folks...
Yves Matton Suspended

Citroen Racing’s competition director, team principal for Citroen’s WRC activities and proprietor of the MY Rally Team Yves Matton has been suspended from active competition by Belgian authorities after failing a drugs test conducted at the 2016 Condroz Rally, on which he finished fifth.
A Belgian national, he had entered this international event as an amateur driver at the wheel of an old Citroen C4 WRC. The judgment ordered that “all licences” shall be suspended for a two year period. The offending substance was Preterax, used for containing blood pressure conditions.
The information was issued by the Tribunal Sportive of the Belgium federation RACB on 20th February. It is not known whether this suspension will affect his primary manager work and no comment has been made by Citroen Racing.
Martin Holmes

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...61387710542982

[itix]

Pacenotes Rally Magazine

Have to be careful with taking medication while competing folks...
Yves Matton Suspended

Citroen Racing’s competition director, team principal for Citroen’s WRC activities and proprietor of the MY Rally Team Yves Matton has been suspended from active competition by Belgian authorities after failing a drugs test conducted at the 2016 Condroz Rally, on which he finished fifth.
A Belgian national, he had entered this international event as an amateur driver at the wheel of an old Citroen C4 WRC. The judgment ordered that “all licences” shall be suspended for a two year period. The offending substance was Preterax, used for containing blood pressure conditions.
The information was issued by the Tribunal Sportive of the Belgium federation RACB on 20th February. It is not known whether this suspension will affect his primary manager work and no comment has been made by Citroen Racing.
Martin Holmes

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...61387710542982

That's really harsh...

[KiwiWRCfan]

WRC Regroup Podcast.
Seb Marshall talks to Becs Williams about how he came to be Hayden Paddon's new co-driver as John Kennard steps aside from co-driver seat. http://progressive.laola1.at/wrc/pod...Program_34.mp3

[RAS007]

That's really harsh...

Agreed. Totally ridiculous.

[tommeke_B]

He's suspended for 2 years on probation. Which means nothing changes until he gets caught again... No big problem. It's quite common in Belgium to test competitors in rallies for doping, it has happened before with different drivers.

[Sulland]

Take your painkillers!!!

So can we read into the Matton affair, that he listened to the advise form here, took som pills, and that NOT and Matton is the same person, or not?

[BleAivano]

That's really harsh...

It really is not. A banned substance (that is used without federation permission) is a banned substance.
If anti-doping is going to work, they need to be harsh.