[WRC] News & Rumours 2019

[Mirek]

Hmm so all day Skoda press conference and they still didn’t tell us about their plans for next year. Seemed more like a celebration of this year.

They actually said quite a lot - they confirmed the 2019 drivers - Rovanperä and Kopecký and they confirmed they stay in WRC which IMHO means they take part in WRC2 Pro because as a works team they could not start in normal WRC2 (if I understand it right). Since WRC2 Pro likely hasn't been fixed yet they can't say more. They also confirmed ongoing work on Fabia R5 Evo and the scheduled homologation in June/July. They also presented the look of the Evo car and the new livery.

What else did You expect?

[AnttiL]

What else did You expect?

They should have said again they are not joining the main WRC? :P

[denkimi]

Gosh Neuville is a right tosser, how do people work with such arrogance, at least with Ogier people want to work for/with him and help him to win, Neuville strikes me as the type of character that you would not drive hell for leather and stick your neck out for. He is completely oblivious to the fact that the second best driver in the Hyundai team was effectively 4th in the championship on 144 points ( 16 points ahead on Latvala enough to allow for the extra round ),

i don't think its about the points at the end of the season. it's about taking points away from ogier or tanak, or backing off to give more points to neuville like evans did this year.

[AnttiL]

Latvala could have also taken points from Ogier in Wales and Catalunya, but failed both times. Lappi also lifted Ogier one position by crashing in Finland.

[BigWorm]

i don't think its about the points at the end of the season. it's about taking points away from ogier or tanak, or backing off to give more points to neuville like evans did this year.

Adding the points from two drivers in the same team, that didn't start the same events together (except Portugal), doesn't affect the championship outcome this year for either the Drivers' or Manufacturers'.

[Tarmop]

In Spain, Tänak lost ~1.5 minutes after his puncture, yet he finished ahead of troublefree Mikkelsen. That should sum up Neuville`s frustration. Probably also Hyundai`s.

[RS]

They actually said quite a lot - they confirmed the 2019 drivers - Rovanperä and Kopecký and they confirmed they stay in WRC which IMHO means they take part in WRC2 Pro because as a works team they could not start in normal WRC2 (if I understand it right). Since WRC2 Pro likely hasn't been fixed yet they can't say more. They also confirmed ongoing work on Fabia R5 Evo and the scheduled homologation in June/July. They also presented the look of the Evo car and the new livery.

What else did You expect?

Just a bit more detail, but I didn't realise details for WRC2 Pro had not been confirmed yet (really?? with Monte 8 weeks away)

[itix]

https://www.autosport.com/wrc/news/1...ctly--rally-gb

If this becomes reality I will personally start a gofundme to pay french farmers to dump shit in front of the FIA headquarters. Stupidest regulations suggestion I have read for a loooong time!

[bassist]

https://www.autosport.com/wrc/news/1...ctly--rally-gb

If this becomes reality I will personally start a gofundme to pay french farmers to dump shit in front of the FIA headquarters. Stupidest regulations suggestion I have read for a loooong time!

Where the hell are we going with this ridiculous idea???? It'll be Traffic Lights next.

[Tauri_J]

Blame the tractor driver