[WRC] Neste Rally Finland 1st-4th August 2019

**mknight** · 3rd July 2019, 21:50

Originally Posted by doubled1978

Yep good news, hope he can get a good feeling with the car and push hard...his statement had a bit of fighting talk about top 5 being the minimum, but pushing for more. Good to hear...

Top 5 has to be a minimum seeing he got 4th place last year in Hyundai which is terrible in Finland.

**racerx1979** · 3rd July 2019, 22:10

Originally Posted by AnttiL

Paddon with M-Sport!!!

https://www.m-sport.co.uk/single-pos...STA-IN-FINLAND

Was not all that hard in the end.... Stop being loyal to the team that gives 2 sh!ts about you and find another...

**pantealex** · 3rd July 2019, 22:11

Originally Posted by cali

There's no one capable from Estonia excl. Tänak. So it was a very wild wet speculation

-Georg Gross
-Markko Märtin
different reason for both names. But just speculation.
Turned down after I heard that RallyFinland WRC driver is NOT driving in Estonia.

**Allez Andruet** · 4th July 2019, 01:04

Holy cow, so it was Paddon after all! Awesome!

**cali** · 4th July 2019, 05:39

Originally Posted by pantealex

-Georg Gross
-Markko Märtin
different reason for both names. But just speculation.
Turned down after I heard that RallyFinland WRC driver is NOT driving in Estonia.

Well one is a direct competitor against the best R5 cars and the other is a retired dude who has not driven rally cars for years. While it would be fun to see Märtin in Finland again I think the best he can do is beat some fast R5's like Rovanperä.

**cali** · 4th July 2019, 05:43

Originally Posted by Tarmop

I bet there are many capable people (moneywise) all around the world, including Estonia. And speedwise...we have/have had Bertelli, Serderidis, Block...

Errmmm dunno what you are trying to say here but speedwise noone capable of driving a WRC car against the factory boys. Thus not capable enough and you bring in such names like Bertelli, Serderidis and Block which proves my point.

Really happy to have Paddon back!

**Tarmop** · 4th July 2019, 06:23

I implied that there are plenty of wealthy people with an interest in rallying.

**cali** · 4th July 2019, 06:52

Originally Posted by Tarmop

I implied that there are plenty of wealthy people with an interest in rallying.

And I said in my original post that there is noone capable from Estonia. And by capable I mean fast enough. Wealth, will and speed are different things

**AnttiL** · 4th July 2019, 08:01

I would love to see Hayden do well but I'm afraid he'll lose time on the first day getting used to the car when he should be taking advantage of his good starting place (assuming it's dry)