Silly Season 2020

**jparker** · 1st November 2019, 00:35

If Tanak had included the R5 business in the contract talks, that's bad.

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**robertr** · 1st November 2019, 04:29

Originally Posted by deephouse

Latvala was not that bad in 2017 when he was nr. 1 in the team.

Latvala got 55 pts less than Tänak in 2017 and Tänak was nr 2 in his team back then.

Latvala is pretty bad.

**mknight** · 1st November 2019, 06:19

Originally Posted by Oraamat

https://www.rallit.fi/tommi-makisen-...ille-valmiina/

Its in the end of that article.

– Uskon, että meillä on kova ja vahva tiimi ensi vuonna. Uskon, että me taistelemme samalla tavalla kaikista titteleistä, Mäkinen vakuutti.

If i understand it correctlt it should be something like that in translation.

- I believe we have a strong team next year and we will fight for all titles in the same way.

It is possible he will go into "I know best" /"I trust Joukhi" mode and run Latvala, Rovanpera and maybe even Suninen a bit like 2017.
In that case the japanese ought to step in and tell him to get to his sendes. Dunno how likely that is.

**Tarmop** · 1st November 2019, 06:21

Originally Posted by jparker

If Tanak had included the R5 business in the contract talks, that's bad.

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No, it is not. But u being u...

**dimviii** · 1st November 2019, 06:38

Originally Posted by dimviii

At Tanaks press release,there is a paragraph that maybe this is about

'''“The vision that Andrea has set out is very promising and matches my own ambitions for the future'''

Makinen at https://www.rallit.fi/tommi-makisen-...ille-valmiina/

Of course we wanted Ott to continue with us. But I understand that in the role of a driver, the future is very carefully considered. He had now come to the conclusion that he wanted to take on new challenges

these 2 sentences imho shows something else than money/number 1 status/airplanes etc

**Indreq** · 1st November 2019, 06:39

Some days ago everybody talked about Mia as the reason why Tänak is leaving, now it is R5 deal, i wonder what comes next week?

**EstWRC** · 1st November 2019, 07:06

the car being unreliable the most obvious one?

**Allez Andruet** · 1st November 2019, 07:15

Originally Posted by robertr

Latvala got 55 pts less than Tänak in 2017 and Tänak was nr 2 in his team back then.

Latvala is pretty bad.

Ever thought to actually follow the rallies, not just read the results?

**AnttiL** · 1st November 2019, 07:21

Originally Posted by EstWRC

the car being unreliable the most obvious one?

I dug up a facebook speculation from June when there was talks that Tänak might go to M-Sport. This was after winning Chile and Portugal, before Sardegna. I replied "if the car breaks in Sardegna, he leaves Toyota". Could be that this was exactly what happened.