2023 WRC News & Rumours

**mknight** · 18th November 2022, 18:31

2022 had quite a few young drivers that never won WRC2/ERC in top cars failing miserably (Solberg, Fourmaux, Greensmith). The one that actually won something (Loubet) did fine.

**Sal yet again** · 18th November 2022, 18:49

I'm happy with number of cars others have different opinions thats fine

**WRCStan** · 18th November 2022, 18:51

Originally Posted by Sal yet again

Too much red wine and couldnt be arsed to type Rally 1. Rumour still stands

R1 is Rally 1 lol. Did you mean Rally1?

No worries I'm done. AndyRAC put me up to it.

**Fast Eddie WRC** · 18th November 2022, 18:52

Originally Posted by Sal yet again

Latest rumour I've heard is that Solberg may be looking at occasional R1 drives with a standalone Yaris R1 with Monster money. Apparantley the posse where at Toyota for talks last week...

A clear possibility and especially after Latvala announcing that their 4th car is available for rent next year...

**er88** · 18th November 2022, 18:59

Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC

A clear possibility and especially after Latvala announcing that their 4th car is available for rent next year...

If he's got backing it's a no brainer to rent the Yaris rather than msports Puma with its tinpot reliability. Then on the events the 4th Yaris isn't available, he could run his own VW R5 in wrc2.

It's great Toyota could/can rent out a car now, shame Hyundai have stopped. I know Loubet got a hybrid test car, but it's still an extra world rally car on the stages which is important if you're stageside.

**steve.mandzij** · 18th November 2022, 19:11

Originally Posted by skarderud

He could be a good candidate to test and race the Yaris Rally2, combined with some Rally1 driving when the car is "free".
Can monster pay that much ? (Presume the running of a Rally1 is quite expensive)

But, the same for M-sport..

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a driver that couldn't keep a Rally2 on the road or near the top of the standings in his WRC2 outings, good development candidate

**becher** · 18th November 2022, 20:23

Originally Posted by AnttiL

Sadly people have already adopted widely the new classes as R1, R2, etc and I’ve grown tired of fighting the windmills

This was inevitable, and I don't see why it is a bad thing to use this shorthand.

**becher** · 18th November 2022, 20:27

Originally Posted by steve.mandzij

a driver that couldn't keep a Rally2 on the road or near the top of the standings in his WRC2 outings, good development candidate

People tend to be quite esoteric, when it comes to who is a good development driver. So go figure....

**Hartusvuori** · 19th November 2022, 06:51

Originally Posted by Sal yet again

Latest rumour I've heard is that Solberg may be looking at occasional R1 drives with a standalone Yaris R1 with Monster money. Apparantley the posse where at Toyota for talks last week...

Solbergs did Rally Japan recce and then flew to quite directly to LA. So if there have been meetings with Toyota, it must've been before Rally Japan.