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10 Jan 2002, 00:27 (Ref:196343) | #1 | ||
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2002 WRC Privateers
With the new rules introduced for this year, we will only have a maximum of 30 WRC cars on each event. As there can be a maximum of 21 works cars (3 each from the 7 teams), that leaves only 9 entries for the privateers. With that fact in mind, If you could choose 9 full-time privateers (Because they won't all do a full season) for 2002, who would they be?
Mine are: Harri Rovanpera Didier Auriol Manfred Stohl Achim Mortl Armin Kremer Hamed Al-Waihabi Fabrice Morel Gregoire De Mevius Jesus Puras |
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10 Jan 2002, 15:21 (Ref:196580) | #3 | ||
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Gilles Panizzi is definately in a works 206 WRC, but Rovanpera is in a Bozian 206 WRC (They are the team that took the contract from Grifone). So I suppose he's semi-works/private, because this year the works teams can't run more than 3 cars on an event.
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13 Jan 2002, 19:27 (Ref:198147) | #4 | ||
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Panizzi and Rovanpera will both drive a number of rallies in the Peugeot works car. The rallies they don't use the works car they will be in either a private car or a relaxing chair at home
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13 Jan 2002, 19:33 (Ref:198152) | #5 | ||
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And Gregoire de Mevius won't drive a WRC rally anymore...he has announced his retirement from it and will only do Cross Country Rallies like Dakar
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Plus Corsica, Catalonia, San Remo, Deutschland - and Rovanpera drive the other events as he is more of an allrounder! |
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31 Jan 2002, 12:41 (Ref:207315) | #7 | |
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Apparently Didier Auriol has given up hope of returning to a full-time WRC drive.
"I don't think I would want to do 14 rallies again," Auriol says in this week's Autosport magazine. "If there was a partial programme with a manufacturer I could be interested, but for the moment nobody has asked." Auriol plans 'one or two' more rallies with the Toyota Corolla WRC he used in Monte Carlo. Must admit, I think it's a real shame - I'd have thought that Didier still had losts to offer teams (now maybe if Subaru were running more than two cars....) |
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