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27 Nov 2019, 12:32 (Ref:3943168)
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2020 Rallying
So with the 2019 WRC season over we can start looking ahead to 2020 - what do we know already?
No Citroen
Neuville, Tanak, Loeb and Sordo at Hyundai
Ogier, Evans and Rovanpera at Toyota
Any M-Sport annoucements yet?
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27 Nov 2019, 12:54 (Ref:3943175)
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Already less seats than usual, let’s hope enough people get seats
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27 Nov 2019, 13:12 (Ref:3943178)
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Already less seats than usual, let’s hope enough people get seats
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The WRC is certainly looking a bit thin for next year - we've got to hope M-Sport can get the funding together, they struggled this year after all. If they don't make it then it's going to be a very poor year.
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27 Nov 2019, 14:53 (Ref:3943200)
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So Ogier, Evans and Rovanperä confirmed at Toyota, where do we think the rest of the field will fall?
I'd love to see Meeke and/or Breen at M-Sport, but I wonder if they have the funding to make it happen?
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27 Nov 2019, 22:49 (Ref:3943284)
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Originally Posted by tbtstt
So Ogier, Evans and Rovanperä confirmed at Toyota, where do we think the rest of the field will fall?
I'd love to see Meeke and/or Breen at M-Sport, but I wonder if they have the funding to make it happen?
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How cow, I didn't see that coming! I thought Meeke and Latvala were probably out the door come season's end but I hadn't really contemplated who might take their seats. I would like to see Meeke in at M-Sport with Suninen, with Paddon and/or Breen in a 3rd car. Probably asking too much in terms of costs.
As someone else said, there's a dearth of seats and in my opinion, a dearth of talent coming up too. Maybe this is what will depress the sport more than anything in the end. Is there anybody coming up through the ranks we are avidly following and excited to see them progress to WRC aside from perhaps Rovenpera Jnr and Solbery Jnr? If you were a manufacturer coming in for the long haul where will you find drivers now?
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28 Nov 2019, 18:39 (Ref:3943448)
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I would say Meeke has had more than enough chances, he seems to be able to run up front, but can't keep it together, his slow pace is not enough.
Coming up, Obviously Oli Solberg is one, I would be signing Lappi over anyone else like Latvala or Meeke. I can also see maybe one of the De Mevius lads coming through soon, but not yet they are still not quick enough in Belgium.
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29 Nov 2019, 13:18 (Ref:3943648)
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Does any one know what is the story with Lappi? Why he left Toyota in the first place and apparently there was no seat for him in the coming year. From driving perspective I would take him over Evans. Personal reasons?
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29 Nov 2019, 14:28 (Ref:3943673)
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Originally Posted by GasperG
Does any one know what is the story with Lappi? Why he left Toyota in the first place and apparently there was no seat for him in the coming year. From driving perspective I would take him over Evans. Personal reasons?
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He and Mäkinen had a fallout of sort back in 2018.
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1 Dec 2019, 22:13 (Ref:3944131)
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The latest headline on the official WRC website should make the championship organisers ponder the future of the sport (Eight drivers, one seat: https://www.wrc.com/en/wrc/news/nove...4--12-12-.html).
Where is it all headed in the long term? Will the future regulations be attractive enough for more manufacturers to jump in? What about the spectators and what they wanna see?
Anyway, in the short term, I'm hoping for some fireworks from Elfyn next season in the Toyota. I have a feeling, he's going to fly. Tanak may take a little while to get the best out of an understeering Hyundai.
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1 Dec 2019, 22:35 (Ref:3944137)
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To be honest my belief is that the sport has had a nice little holiday with the modern cars, but there needs to be something cheaper.
Now Citroen have gone we are down to two maybe three.
Like the old days, it is always priced out of the market.
I think there will be a lull before the hybrid regs come out, then a regeneration again.
Manufacturers are only now interested in motorsport if it follows their green agenda.
For me, means I follow non top level stuff a lot more.
Sadly
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