[WRC] News & Rumours 2020

[Henryfiles]

What’s rally Germany like to spectate? I’ve heard it’s not the best?

[Gregor-y]

Off topic, but do you know what David's plans are?

I do not know about competition plans but see the Facebook page for Higgins Motorsport Services, Limited that's listed as a training/coaching service. It looks like it was set up at the end of November. There is a nice video put together thanking him for his service to Subaru of America.

https://www.facebook.com/higginsmotorsportservicesltd/

[rallyfiend]

What’s rally Germany like to spectate? I’ve heard it’s not the best?

I've been a couple of times.

I'm complementary about it. Especially if the weather is nice. However in October...

[dimviii]

Colin McMaster
@colmcklein
WRC Champ Ott Tänak will stick with number '8' throughout 2020. Last time the World Champion started a WRC rally without #1 on the door was Juha Kankkunen on the 1994 Sanremo Rally. His Toyota Celica GT-Four ran with No.3

[Mirek]

Who will have No.1 then?

[TypeR]

Who will have No.1 then?

Nobody. #1 is reserved for WDC and if tge driver chooses ,,his own,, nr then so it is

[tommeke_B]

Honestly I liked it more when all numbers on the entry list were earned by performance in the championship, and not randomly chosen.

[AnttiL]

Honestly I liked it more when all numbers on the entry list were earned by performance in the championship, and not randomly chosen.

It was pretty random before as well.

The champion had #1 and his team had the following numbers, then the numbers were allocated by the team championship order. The numbers were allocated for the teams, not for drivers. A team could switch drivers for their numbers. Remember how Citroen had cars 7-9 in 2017 but for example Al-Qassimi drove a different number on each of the four rallies he did? Or Neuville had #5 in 2018 although we could consider him the "number one" driver of Hyundai (Mikkelsen had #4)?

Then, before 1995, it was usually only that previous year winner had #1 and everything else was decided by the organizers.

[PLuto]

It was pretty random before as well.

The champion had #1 and his team had the following numbers, then the numbers were allocated by the team championship order. The numbers were allocated for the teams, not for drivers. A team could switch drivers for their numbers. Remember how Citroen had cars 7-9 in 2017 but for example Al-Qassimi drove a different number on each of the four rallies he did? Or Neuville had #5 in 2018 although we could consider him the "number one" driver of Hyundai (Mikkelsen had #4)?

Then, before 1995, it was usually only that previous year winner had #1 and everything else was decided by the organizers.

Maybe random, but still better than this joke...

[sindroms]

Petter Solberg is working on to attract manufacture to WRC to be team manager as himself after that. There is negotiations with several manufactures but he can't say anything more specific.

Source: Petter himself in interview to latvian motorsportsite go4speed.lv - https://www.go4speed.lv/lv/news/wrc/...rc-cempionata/