I'd really want too see the real thing in person, but owning a miniauture replica won't be bad either.
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I'd really want too see the real thing in person, but owning a miniauture replica won't be bad either.
He's biased, and maybe so am I but I do think he's right.
PSA seem to have given up promoting their R5s with any works supposed programme at all.
Skoda are relatively invisible being only in WRC2. That is probably good for promoting the R5 to private customers but fairly useless for the brand, possibly even negative.
I was watching the Portugal highlights programme with my Dad (who probably knows more about rallying than the average joe) and when he saw the final results with Tidemand and Fuchs 9th and 10th he said "What happened to Skoda's good drivers?"
Still it's the ERC itself what is the most negatively affected.
Skoda didnt have anything to prove here after winning the Championship many times over ... and Peugeot didnt do themselves many favours with their 208T16 in the ERC anyway...
How has the Seb Loeb Racing car of Giordano doing result wise?
does he have the Evo kit mounted, and if yes what are his experience with it?
It has actually done very well..
Won pretty much everything it entered apart from two events, one of which was won by a WRC car, the other one he crashed.
http://ewrc-results.com/profile.php?...entin-Giordano
(can't believe that not more people use this excellent database)
Epernay he would have won easily if he didn't drive so crazy :p
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I thought it would be best to discuss Lukyanuk's money problems here rather than the Azores thread..
I suppose missing Ypres is not a disaster if Kajto is also missing it.
I hope we will see Luky back for Estonia, practically a home rally for him!
So, there remains a question.. evo 10 or R5?
Current leader of ERC3, Hungarian driver Zoltan Bessenyey, had a serious crash in Hungary. He was seating in co-driver's seat in Andras Hadik's car when this happened:
http://forum.autosport.cz/viewtopic....tart=10#p82288
He was going under surgery today and long rehabilitation is in front of him...
Ugly crash. Best recovery to him.
All the best wishes for him.
Unfortunately his spine is broken :(
Ypres Rally not happy with the current ERC...
http://www.autosport.com/news/report...goes-backwards
Ypres organizers are in a strong position and therefore can speak their mind.
In every way. In their position in the championship and in the people who stay behind the event. They even decided to run mixed competitive field of ERC and national competitors and FIA agreed. That's hard to imagine for most of the other events.
Think about what is a job description of the promoter.
So do Ypres think they are more important than the whole ERC and think they can demand what the ERC should be ? What would Ypres do if the ERC dropped them, how would this be better ? Just being a round of the Belgian Championship ?
The other rallies havent complained anything like this... and ones like the Circuit of Ireland seemed more than happy.
As for the Promoter, what were they supposed to do to persuade Skoda to stay ?
The Promoter could, well, actually, do their job; Promote the ERC properly! The ERC doesn't seem to be going anywhere at the moment.
I don't know what they do think. I can only guess but it's quite clear they are not satisfied and I am certain that they are not the only ones, perhaps only the loudest.
Such is life. Anyway it's obvious that ERC is not in a good shape and not all the unsatisfied speak loud. Don't foreget that rallies like Ypres or Barum are part of the Eurosport game since the beginning and they know how it changed through the years. There used to be times when they gave a lot less but received a lot more.
It's up to them to find how to attract the competitors. They clearly didn't succeed.
I think Ypres can manage to remain a big event also without the ERC. So I agree they do have quite some bargaining power.
It surely won't be 'just a round of the Belgian championship.'
With such a great entry list and the expectation for a strong fight for the win between BRC drivers, some ERC regulars and other international top guys it’s a bit strange to see this words from Ypres organizer. It’d be nice to know in which context they were made. This Evans fellow seems a Sun journo, always looking for dramatic headlines.
No doubt ERC still needs some adjustments, but bringing back IRC memories over and over again won’t do any good. IRC was a success in Mosley FIA years, when WRC was moribund. With the revamp that Todt managed to produce, there wasn’t room anymore for two major rally series.
And blaming Eurosport for Skoda and Peugeot WRC2 choice makes no sense. Every time WRC stands out manus tend to get involved, even in lower categories: in Gr.B era VW and Opel were fighting for Gr.A title; in the mid 90’s Skoda, Seat, Hyundai and others were in a close battle for F2 victory and even in JWRC first years there was direct (Suzuki) or indirect (Fiat, Opel, Citroen) manu presence.
Btw, many ERC crews that were in Açores are also in Ypres. The “no time” argument is BS.
The trip (ferry+truck) from Açores to central Europe takes 3 to 4 days. Saying that "we have the same problem with Azores: by the time the cars are back, it's already too late for Ypres" it's simply not true. The time problem with major repairs can also happen between other events.
Do You realize that there are teams who need to travel additional thousands of kilometers to Portugal, than back and than to Belgium? You can do that but You can't expect everyone to do that. That's why it's not BS and a real reason why several teams didn't come to Acores.
It can but also may not be possible for example when You crash or have some major technical problem. You can't expect everyone to take the risk, in other words You always loose several teams because of that.
You also can't expect everyone to plan the whole season for these two events. They create a logistically difficult and risky combination and it's a lot easier to avoid one of them. Again it's simply a fact that some teams don't go because of that.
That's not the main issue mate: I don't remember seeing Ireland Circuit organizers complaining about ERC current state. On the contrary, they were delighted with this year rally and I don't get why the same can't happen at Ypres. Again, it'd be nice to understand Mr. Penasse words full context.
Use please quotes when You answer something else than the last post. It doesn't make sense otherwise.
I've mentioned 3 or 4 points that would be interesting to discuss. You picked the least important one. Well done!
I already made my points to the other three points and I didn't want to repeat myself again as I know I'm often annoying with that.