[WRC] News & Rumours 2018

[Allez Andruet]

https://www.wrc.com/en/wrc/news/augu...4--12-12-.html

When your self-confidence goes down you can’t come and win the next rally because first you have to build it up again and only then can you win.

I have to quote Terry Harryman: oh dear god

[wrc2017]

I have to quote Terry Harryman: oh dear god

its getting near contract time, and JML is taking about finding his confidence.

[rallyfiend]

No offense to Jourdan, but is it not a bit crazy to give this beast to a "not so experienced driver"? Rally is on a slow recovery with regards to general public acceptance, 1 major off with injuries or fatalities and the whole thing will be in jeopardy again... I guess we got away with Paddon's off in Monte 17 by the fact that it was the very first stage of the first rally of the new wrc era... Hope my fears won't materialize.
PS i like the car livery though.

I don't see why he's a risk.

Yeah, he has a quick car, but he's always had quick cars. He doesn't drive on the edge so as to cause much of an increased safety risk.

[AnttiL]

I have no problem with him driving. I'm only afraid of repeating last year's Catalunya when the starting order with Serderidis ahead of Kopecký virtually destroyed Kopecký's victory.

Dust won’t be as much of an issue

[dupanton]

I don't see why he's a risk.

Yeah, he has a quick car, but he's always had quick cars. He doesn't drive on the edge so as to cause much of an increased safety risk.

He is in fact less of a risk than the factory drivers that are on the edge everywhere. He will take corners a lot slower than the top drivers, so much less risk imo

[steve.mandzij]

No offense to Jourdan, but is it not a bit crazy to give this beast to a "not so experienced driver"? Rally is on a slow recovery with regards to general public acceptance, 1 major off with injuries or fatalities and the whole thing will be in jeopardy again... I guess we got away with Paddon's off in Monte 17 by the fact that it was the very first stage of the first rally of the new wrc era... Hope my fears won't materialize.
PS i like the car livery though.

He's only gonna be as much a risk as Sheikh Khalid or Armin Kremer; for starters, Kris Meeke would be a much greater risk.

[Andre Oliveira]

Compare Kremer with Al-Qassimi and Serderidis is not good idea. Kremer is a good driver.

[Mirek]

Dust won’t be as much of an issue

No, but it's near impossible to overtake someone in the wineyeards.

[denkimi]

Seriously the argument about who is better than who is irrelevant. The FIA must think he is competent enough to drive the car. It doesn't matter what class the car is if there is an accident. The worst fatal crash involving spectators in Britain in recent times was caused by an R3 Citroen and not a WRC car. You could argue (if you must) that a WRC car driven by Works driver would more than likely be going faster than one driven by an amateur so any possible accident could be on a grander scale.

And when ogier passes by there are a lot more spectators on the road standing a lot closer than when sederditis passes by.

[dimviii]

Rallirinki / Teemu
Tommi Mäkinen Racing had a turnover of 67 m€ in 2017 (+48% /2016) and made a profit of 8,6 m€ (+115%). #WRC is good business for the team. Currently TGR's WRC base is moving to Tallinn, Estonia. After Germany cars won't return to Finland for rebuild.

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