Yes. Sorry folks, wrong crowd maybe. Andre Villas Boas was a football manager who had success with big name clubs in various top leagues despite never having played professionally. He has some motorsport passion if not much history, some rally connections and maybe transferable skills and qualities. I know it's not going to happen, but it doesn't have to be an ex-driver or petrolbrain to take the boss role.
No, but if he's used to football money, he won't be interested in coming to work in motorsport...
I can imagine the test debriefing meetings. Nothing much said & a lot of "Gallic shrugs" - and they wonder why they aren't getting anywhere!
I think they need a good test & development driver...
I've noticed multiple times now, the forum is very sluggish in the evening. Then after 23:00 UTC (00:00 CET), like clockwork, it becomes instantly loading and instantly usable again. I don't know...
And at the end of the 2025 season he said that all of his vacations are planned on the rally weekends so he wouldn't have time to watch or participate :D
After Monte they said, dont worry Sweden will be better.
They'd moved their test base to Finland 3 years ago to sort the car on fast gravel (and snow).
And in Sweden... they were worse.
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I can imagine the test debriefing meetings. Nothing much said & a lot of "Gallic shrugs" - and they wonder why they aren't getting anywhere! I think they need a good test & development driver...
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