Silly Season 2020

[AnttiL]

What comes to Taka, pretty sure he will be doing a lot of rallies with WRC. Besides the manufacturing points, does it matter if it is official TGR car or private, main difference being the different sponsor stickers?

I would imagine Toyota's sponsors are only paying for three top level drivers and either the team doesn't want to give them the extra exposure for free or they don't want to pay more or they don't want to be associated with a slower driver. But technically it's no difference, the car comes from the same workshop and is serviced by the same mechanics.

[PLuto]

No one has been as fast with C3 R5 than him (also being reliable).

Not true. Lukyanuk was also fast in ERC. Bonato in Monte and Corse in WRC. Pepe Lopez in Spain. Yohan Rossel in France.

[Andre Oliveira]

Fontes in Portugal

[the sniper]

Maybe Gronholm was describing the situation up until now?

I agree, maybe things have changed since then. While there's obviously some attractive pricing going on, the sudden mass take up of the I20 in the UK has surely got to indicate that there is some progress/promise there? If the thing was as poor as it seemed to be previously, I can't see how Tom Cave could have done so well with it in GB, given he was up against the Polo and new Fabia.

[deephouse]

He is just proving to HM that they made a mistake with picking Huttunen.

[AnttiL]

He is just proving to HM that they made a mistake with picking Huttunen.

Well, both Huttunen and Cave were third in the RC2 class in their home rallies this year.

[Allez Andruet]

He is just proving to HM that they made a mistake with picking Huttunen.

He was so damn slow in Sweden that Hyundai must have known by then it was mistake, right?

[NoName]

It is a great injustice that Ostberg did not get a drive WRC this year and humiliating that he is considered to someone who should bringing budget. No one has been as fast with C3 R5 than him (also being reliable). His pace has been very close to Rovanpera Jr in many rallies and without numerous technical issues + participating to more rallies he would had been very close to WRC2 Pro title. I truly hope he gets WRC seat back for 2020.

What comes to Taka, pretty sure he will be doing a lot of rallies with WRC. Besides the manufacturing points, does it matter if it is official TGR car or private, main difference being the different sponsor stickers?

In a norwegian rallypodcast. Ostberg said that in the begning of the season. He was just thinking doing one season in R5. But how the situation is now, He will most likely do one more.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Hyundai team boss Andrea Adamo says he is taking a "big picture" view of whether to keep Craig Breen for the 2020 #WRC season https://t.co/Pdzp7zTLCI

[meh]

Hyundai team boss Andrea Adamo says he is taking a "big picture" view of whether to keep Craig Breen for the 2020 #WRC season https://t.co/Pdzp7zTLCI

without paywall
https://www.motorsport.com/wrc/news/...elsen/4556372/

edit: content is actually available from autosport.com also, if to mess a bit with developer tools or read source code