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So Ford dropped out at the end of last season, now Audi and Peugeot are out. Might as well hand PSRX next years titles now and save everyone some time. |
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I could be completely off - as I don't know if PSA have a central pool for motorsport funding or if each individual manufacturer has a separate budget - but could this be connected to Citroen signing Ogier?
With Citroen getting Ogier onboard and talking about going all out next year, I just wonder if the extra funding has come from elsewhere within the PSA Group? Or are Peugeot stepping back until there are concrete plans for electric in place? |
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18 Oct 2018, 10:55 (Ref:3857492) | #78 | |
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"Peugeot will concentrate its resources on developing these new [electric sports] vehicles and has therefore decided to withdraw from the WRX championship at the end of the 2018 season, whose evolution towards electrification is uncertain," said Peugeot brand CEO Jean-Philippe Imparato in a tweet.
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18 Oct 2018, 11:08 (Ref:3857497) | #79 | ||
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In all seriousness, this to me looks like Peugeot were the ones pushing electric and the fact no-one else was interested and IMG had to can it for a year is probably the reason.
I always said rallycross needed to be pushed slowly, but IMG just packaged it, slapped a logo on it and sold it to the highest bidder too quickly, and now the wheels are totally falling off. For me, VW should go too, that way maybe there can be some sort of cooldown, work out a better way forward. AS let's be honest, VW being involved is the primary reason the series has fallen away in terms of spectacle. As I always said, domination only works for one person, the one dominating. The series, the fans, the other teams all suffer. It's sad, but I hope for two things. Either IMG finally understand what they bought all those years ago, or they sod off and leave it to people that know what they are doing. |
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18 Oct 2018, 11:34 (Ref:3857501) | #80 | |||
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Article now up on Motorsport.com:
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18 Oct 2018, 13:05 (Ref:3857524) | #81 | ||
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Wow. That was quick. Fun while it lasted.
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Isn’t this positive? Many of us have been saying that the money of the manufacturer teams has been spoiling it, this allows a move back towards a decent privateer grid more like 2014/2015 era....just need to get rid of those pesky F1 tracks now.
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...but if VW did take a step back then we might see grids similar to the first couple of World RX seasons. Quote:
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18 Oct 2018, 15:50 (Ref:3857572) | #85 | |
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Are we sure VW committed to the EV class? With Audi out, engineering costs per car went up by 1/4 at least for them. I presume they'll go out as well since IMG messes up.
If you read the tweet 'whose evolution towards electrification is uncertain', you get the impression that 2021 isn't in the picture either. And who wants to develop 2 cars when it's unsure that 1 of them can't run. You hollow out the budget for something without ROI. Not an expert, but that makes you losing 1th place even before the season starts. |
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18 Oct 2018, 16:01 (Ref:3857574) | #86 | |||
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I wonder if Peugeot have agreed to return once the arrival of electric rallycross has a solid date (and thus they can still be considered one of the supporting manufacturers) or if they have completely walked away from rallycross for now? |
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18 Oct 2018, 18:28 (Ref:3857604) | #87 | |
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From what I understand they needed 4 manufacturers for e-WRX.
Hopefully VW will also quit WRX. |
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18 Oct 2018, 18:28 (Ref:3857605) | #88 | |
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I assume the WRX budget will now move to the WRC campaign.
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18 Oct 2018, 18:40 (Ref:3857610) | #89 | ||
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Peugeot do not run in WRC, I would think the budgets for both are separate, they will probably go into something like FE or something amazingly dull like that. I doubt they were spending tens of millions a year on WRX anyway.
I can see Kenny going with Citroen again national backing as before, he can easily build the cars and get the budgets together to run Tim and Kevin. He has a fabulous relationship with Citroen after all. Loeb never really seemed that interested to me anyway, like he was doing it coz he had to, not that he wanted to. Stupidly electric suits rallycross very well, but for fans it would be a hugely retrograde step. Most fans like modern supercars, I personally think they are fairly mundane in comparison with some cars of the recent past, all that happened was testing and development moved things on a pace in a few years. Not that long ago you could win ERC titles in a 5 year old Focus if you spent hundreds of thousands on engines a year and could drive well. Is that any worse? No, but the car looked and sounded better and the tracks were better, more interesting and the tickets were cheaper, the grids were bigger etc etc. IMG bring a lot, but they bring a lot of bad aswell as good, the sooner people realise this the better and it seems manufacturers are also seeing that what was sold on the tin, is not what they were getting. |
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18 Oct 2018, 19:18 (Ref:3857617) | #90 | |
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Audi wants Mattias Ekstrom back in DTM.
They even wanted EKS running customer cars in DTM but Ekstrom doesn't want that because they have no chance against factory cars. |
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18 Oct 2018, 19:32 (Ref:3857621) | #91 | ||
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Well obviously because I think one of the manufacturers pulled out did they not?
Sorry I don't much about DTM, bores me to tears, very expensive slot car racing lol! |
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18 Oct 2018, 20:08 (Ref:3857628) | #92 | |
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According to Kevin Peugeot had big plans for next season and everything was "normal" yesterday. Article in Swedish.
https://www.svt.se/sport/motorsport/...lt-som-vanligt |
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18 Oct 2018, 20:31 (Ref:3857631) | #93 | |
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Anyone else think that there was an ultimatum, win in Germany or we pull out. Would explain some of the driving behaviours from two of the Peugeot drivers!
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19 Oct 2018, 07:54 (Ref:3857686) | #94 | |
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I think you are on to something. Maybe they saw Germany as last chance saloon.
Many of the articles I have seen lately have mentioned Timmy Hansen and how everyone does him wrong. At the same time he plays that schizophrenic victim pose and very aggressive driving tactics. Bakkerud, Ekstrøm and others are saying that it's just adrenaline and that they square up afterwards - but is that really the case? What I just saw this weekend was Loeb making a desperate inside pass attempt and getting crushed, and Timmy deliberately torpedoing Marklund into a DNF. How can this happen without consequences? Imagine the outcry if Mathias did the same to Timmy? I bet the consequences didn't matter as much anymore. Last edited by Silhuette; 19 Oct 2018 at 08:00. |
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19 Oct 2018, 08:06 (Ref:3857687) | #95 | |
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I'm not the biggest fan of the Hansens but he didn't do it on purpose and I doubt anyone else would do the same.
Firstly, Timmy was disqualified. Secondly, his bumper was caught under the car and he unfortunately hit Marklund because of it. He also apologised to Marklund. https://www.facebook.com/TimmyHansen...44829708873973 |
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I am not a Marklund fan - and the car was already badly damaged (you can see the right rear corner had collapsed as a result of the turn one melee) before Timmy started batting it around the track - but Timmy didn't appear to lift off after either impact with the Megane. According to comments on Facebook (which I appreciate may be exaggerated) that Megane is now a write off due to the side impacts. |
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19 Oct 2018, 11:10 (Ref:3857722) | #98 | ||
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The stupid thing is Kenny won tons of stuff without driving like a bully. Personally I think Timmy has simply reached his talent plateau, as Doran did. Tyhese guys took it to a new level. Before that we had Eriksson, Hnsbedt driving int everyone every week, then it was Doran, Lindefjell, they were just out of their depth at times.
Regarding Peugeot, this is Paris car show week (where the announcement was made actually), huge meetings with group bosses, it's nothing to do with Germany and everything to do with global decisions based around far more than results. This will be inked to budget cuts linked to sales, PR budgets etc. And maybe even Ogier and Lappi going to Citroen, though I would think Red Bull would cover most of that. Peugeot have not long been involved, and I think they were very keen on electric, more than anyone else maybe, so perhaps that is a factor too. IMG be careful what you wish for, this is a cock up and your board should be asking questions of people like Bellamy as you are losing this championship. |
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According to local newspaper VF, Höljes is in the closing stages of finalising a deal.
I didn't bother posting the link since it is a plus article. |
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