[WRC] News & Rumours 2019

[dck1989]

Wrc spain itinerary released today

[AnttiL]

Wrc spain itinerary released today

Quite much the same as last year

- No more Barcelona SSS
- Middle gravel stage changed, now titled Horta-Bot, but probably partly same as Pesells last year. A bit shorter, so a bit less gravel this year.
- Riudecanyes is now power stage
- La Mussara is the second Sunday stage.

[AL14]

Who else do you have who has driven a 2017 WRC car (albeit only in test tracks) but has not collected manu points this or last year and is not a gentleman driver? Also, Camilli has done also other testing work like with the Polo, so he's good for the job.

EDIT: I think Lefebvre would also fit the conditions.

He also work on first Toyota tests.

[Nelly]

Quite much the same as last year

- No more Barcelona SSS
- Middle gravel stage changed, now titled Horta-Bot, but probably partly same as Pesells last year. A bit shorter, so a bit less gravel this year.
- Riudecanyes is now power stage
- La Mussara is the second Sunday stage.

New shakedown??

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[Allez Andruet]

He also work on first Toyota tests.

That was back in the day when TMG was still running the project with a completely different car.

[Tauri_J]

New shakedown??

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not announced yet

[racerx1979]

Yes, it's a lot different to taking a car to a random national event. It's in co-operation with the WRC Promoter who probably demands at least one car from each team and also there's most likely financial support to get it happening from the promoter and from the event organizers.

And here I thought the teams were just volunteering... lol

[AnttiL]

And here I thought the teams were just volunteering... lol

Here's the news about them signing to be a semi-official WRC event https://www.wrc.com/en/wrc/news/marc...0--12-12-.html

The financial support to the teams from the event was already reported last year when they won the competition against Autoglym Rally the same weekend.

[AL14]

That was back in the day when TMG was still running the project with a completely different car.

I know, it's still some experience he has on testing and developing a car.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Re WRC's testing on events...

I heard Absolute Rally on this subject and although they would 'like' to see WRC cars on small events, the consensus was that it was wrong.

This was because it takes away glory from the regular entrants and pushes up costs for the WRC teams which are supposed to be kept down.