VW News 2012 & WRC 2013

**Antony Warmbold** · 7th May 2013, 07:42

Originally Posted by noel157

Wrong! He hasn't learned that it's the accountants who know best...........

You are right, that is the other half of the battle...

So to resume: Money for the engineers to spend on making the drivers happy

**Antony Warmbold** · 7th May 2013, 07:48

Originally Posted by tfp

I remember reading something like that in your blog. I also remember a magazine interview with a ford mechanic last year, he was speaking of JML in France. JML insisted on using the "x" tyre set up thing (a pair of softs front left and rear right, and hards front right and rear left) the mechanics were inclined to use this set up, but they diddnt want to risk loosing their drivers confidence, even though they knew this set up wasn't going to work.

It was here:

WRC behind the stages: Interview translated to English !

**Viking** · 7th May 2013, 08:13

Seems like they have moved the remote reservoir on the shock absorber and "opened up" the side hole in the bumper since the article was written.

**Vaggelis27** · 16th May 2013, 22:17

Does anyone know about VW merchandise??

**rallye-vid** · 17th May 2013, 13:41

Boutique officielle "Sébastien Ogier"

And someone in germany offers XXL clothes: Fan-Utensilien VW Motorsport - Seite 2

**stefanvv** · 19th May 2013, 21:31

X Games in Barcelona
Sainz appearance cancelled due to rain

The much anticipated outing by rally legend Carlo Sainz in the 600-hp Volkswagen Polo R at the X Games has had to be cancelled. After heavy rainfall over the last few days, the specially erected circuit in Barcelona’s Olympic stadium was so damp that, having been postponed on Sunday evening, the organisers had no choice but to cancel the rallycross race. Local favourite Sainz tried to console the fans who had flocked to the arena with a tweet on Twitter: “I am sorry for everyone. Thank you for coming.” The 51-year-old had prepared for his planned rallycross debut with test drives in a Volkswagen Polo. “El Matador” won the 2010 Rally Dakar for Volkswagen and is a national hero in Spain, due to his two World Rally Championship titles.

**JRodrigues** · 28th September 2013, 12:44

Originally Posted by Vaggelis27

Does anyone know about VW merchandise??

That's a good question. Those Red Bull caps are pretty good. I've contacted VW Motorsport on facebook and they said this:

"normally you find the official VW WRC merchandise here: http://www.wrcclothing.com/collection/vw
However, unfortunately the website is down at the moment. We already tried to get in touch with the WRC guys so they'll fix it. Just have a try on that a little bit later."

But it seems to be down all the time, so.. don't have any idea.