Silly Season 2020

[wrc2017]

Mäkinen was just interviewed on Finnish TV. Ofcourse he didn't confirm anything, but there's no doubt Tänak is leaving. I'd bet my house on the Hyundai move after seeing that.

Didn't see it coming
Now.
Ogier to Toyota
Citroen to exit

[EstWRC]

[Tarmop]

Loeb, Tänak, Neuville, Sordo...they know how to build cars. There is a new i20 coming out next year, so i am pretty sure that they will build a new car.

[mknight]

Well it would certainly be something else than the leaving rumors which were everywhere in may-june.

[EstWRC]

Mäkinen was just interviewed on Finnish TV. Ofcourse he didn't confirm anything, but there's no doubt Tänak is leaving. I'd bet my house on the Hyundai move after seeing that.

What makes you so sure ?

Nobody answered my questions earlier.

[KKS]

and try and dominate Tanak who would be having to adjust to a new car, to lay claim to no.1 driver.

A smart move from Adamo seems. If you can't beat them - you should lead them. Signing Tanak, bring him bad car, fast driver on slow car = slow driver and than Neuville finally win WDC!
Tanak has fast car, no1, big money and than try to blame Toyota.. ah blah. He signed own end of career.
Same as Lappi last year. Got a fast car, hope for no1 at Citoren and got shit car and no2. Cleaver move! Tanak going same footprints.

"What an unfortunate rally-suicide"

[EstWRC]

Ott to Estonian media about being teammates with Neuville: “I have been teammates with Ogier, so I don’t see any problem being with Neuville. “

[Tarmop]

A smart move from Adamo seems. If you can't beat them - you should lead them. Signing Tanak, bring him bad car, fast driver on slow car = slow driver and than Neuville finally win WDC!
Tanak has fast car, no1, big money and than try to blame Toyota.. ah blah. He signed own end of career.
Same as Lappi last year. Got a fast car, hope for no1 at Citoren and got shit car and no2. Cleaver move! Tanak going same footprints.

"What an unfortunate rally-suicide"

Absolutely nothing you said, makes any sense at all. Adamo cares about titles, manuf. title first of all. He doesn`t hire drivers to fail in order to help Neuville grab a drivers title...and with what cost.

[mknight]

A smart move from Adamo seems. If you can't beat them - you should lead them.

For Adamo it's win-win situation either way if he gets Tanak. If Tanak is fast... good for Adamo, if he is not fast... he got one less competitor and the main points scorer at Toyota away.

I don't quite understand Tanak's motivation all that much though. Yes especially the Sardinia episode where Tommi seemingly prioritized keeping costs down over securing the win at all costs would matter. But still Hyundai is seen as a "risky" car with no guarantee for top performance on all rallies (and for all drivers). But yes it has improved since Finland this year.

[Allez Andruet]

What makes you so sure ?

You could see it in his face. And the way he was talking. He was talking in a very serious tone about how it's not good for the sport if one team has two of the star drivers (guess he meant the trio of Tänak, Ogier and Neuville) in its roster. You rarely see Mäkinen looking so serious and almost like defeated.