Silly Season 2020

[Oraamat]

Hyundai pay more.

It's not that complicated.

Press release out in the next few days.

There has to be something else than money. Toyota cant afford to negotiate in salary numbers because if they lose Tänak, then shit hits the fan and they are out of the picture for next year. They need to have one of top 3 in team, so money cant be problem.

[cali]

Neuville to Toyota then? He can only loose this one.

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He has how many years left in the contract? Surely Adamo will not let him go before the end of the valid contract. I'm just so puzzled right now as nothing makes sense anymore

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[Allez Andruet]

What's somewhat worrying from Toyota's point of view, that in two years the team has lost Lehtinen, Lappi and now Tänak - and basically all three have voluntarily walked out. If I were Akio Toyoda, I'd ask Tommi some questions.

[AnttiL]

What's somewhat worrying from Toyota's point of view, that in two years the team has lost Lehtinen, Lappi and now Tänak - and basically all three have voluntarily walked out. If I were Akio Toyoda, I'd ask Tommi some questions.

And not only these three...

[mknight]

Neuville to Toyota then? He can only loose this one.

Neuville said in two different interviews this weekend how he has always been faster than his teammates in Hyundai and he is kind of right. Obviously he wasn't faster every single rally, but over multiple rallies it's true.

Remember how people expected Loeb to dominate over Neuville after start of this season, similarly after the 3 rallies he did in 2017 it was expected that Mikkelsen would be fighting with Neuville for n1 position. Before that it was Paddon who had same speed with Neuville in 2016 and then just struggled since.

[Got Mail]

And not only these three...

The Black Widow effect?

[Oraamat]

Also whats weird is that, I havent heard any rumours that Tänak acctually tested Hyundai somewhere. When moving Toyota, there were videos and everything about testing it. So is he really changing team without even testing car before? Or they have kept it in secret and been reslly good at it?

[Rally Power]

Hyundai pay more.
It's not that complicated.

Hard to believe it's just about money; Toyota is paying millions to Alonso, mainly for PR purposes. A bad relation with Makinen, like cali explained, make more sense.

Btw, before Loeb's era having 2 top drivers in the same team was the rule in the WRC; it can work fine, as long there's a strong team manager.

[dimviii]

Hard to believe it's just about money;.

just thinking loudly....
because also for me is hard to believe thats is about money,maybe Tanak asked to run the yaris r5 program for customers with MM sport and Tommi denied?
Maybe Adamo willing to give MM sport this r5 multi million programm to MM sport?

[arx]

Also whats weird is that, I havent heard any rumours that Tänak acctually tested Hyundai somewhere. When moving Toyota, there were videos and everything about testing it. So is he really changing team without even testing car before? Or they have kept it in secret and been reslly good at it?

Exactly. Moving to another team without testing the car is insane. Or maybe these rumored Japanese plane tickets were South Korea tickets instead...