Thread: [WRC] News & Rumours 2019
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24th May 2019, 10:47 #2111
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[WRC] News & Rumours 2019
Not Ireland. Northern Ireland maybe, but it’s still unclear, as is NZ. Otherwise well assumed.
If they say they don't want the island rallies and they boot out Corsica, by that logic, Sardegna should be out no? Why can't they leave Germany in the calendar? It's location is ideal to attract people from more than just Germany, they have very nice stages, Japan will be a Tarmac event anyhow, why not keep it & have more Tarmac events??
NI would be a tarmac rally, that must be a motivation to move it from Wales. But that is an island rally in any case!Last edited by AnttiL; 24th May 2019 at 10:49.
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it all depends if Paddon participates or not, im sure if he does then there would be a lot of people. im just assuming, i cant be 100% sure.
but at the moment it isnt hard to get more people on the stages than at Australia. For me that rally has stagnated.
Would be great to at least give a chance to NZ and to see what happens.#8 Ott Tänak - Martin Järveoja #8
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https://www.rallit.fi/toyotan-wrc-ti...juttu-tama-on/
Hänninen says Sardegna is most likely his last WRC event and the purpose is testing
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thanks for the link.
very interesting to hear Porters insights. Especially about the Toyota rim problems, Kruuda was saying the same after Corsica as Porter here.
and the fact that Mikkelsen now has rally-to-rally contract. I didnt know that.
Nobody hasnt mentioned it here ?#8 Ott Tänak - Martin Järveoja #8
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25th May 2019, 09:11 #2120
Apparently they renegotiated to a specific term at the beginning of 2019. Not sure of the exact terms, but Hyundai has given Andreas plenty of chances. Loebs Chile results did not help. They're now short of drivers for Finland and we all know Andreas performs poorly in Finland...he said it himself during Chile. So now they're desperate and have Huttunen testing as he might be their only hope for Finland. What to do with Andreas moving forward? Loeb won't do the full season... Bring Paddon back or try to get Ostberg or Breen??
Last edited by racerx1979; 25th May 2019 at 09:23.
Thank you for reasonable argument. Calling people names is really unnecessary though. Now you speak about 2027 rules but we know little about what they are working on for 2027. What if they come...
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