What number do we expect each driver to select as their permanent number ?
What significance does the number have to the driver ?
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What number do we expect each driver to select as their permanent number ?
What significance does the number have to the driver ?
Who cares it's only a number. Nobody is remembered by number except Rossi.
Ogier: 1 :D
To be honest, I can't even remember the numbers F1 drivers have been using. Even if I remember the numbers, it's a mess who it was exactly. Maybe if you learn the numbers by heart and revise them every now and then, you might remember them.
I personally find this change pointless. I understand it is for marketing purposes. But isn't the point to sell more and you sell more if there are changes to the product or not?
Anybody know the full rules here? Is it only for factory drivers, all World Rally Cars or who? Do you get a permanent number even when you participate 1 event? Which driver gets to choose first, second etc. What's the interval, 2-99?
Acc. to that change from September its for priority 1 drivers. World champion #1 the other can apply for free choice. As Prokop Bertelli Block did ...
Who gets to pick first? Championship order?
wow... i think during off season the forum should be locked in order for some people to contain their retardation and stop making stupid worthless dog threads...
9 L o e b
From Sporting Regulations
Quote:
P1 drivers may request a specific number provided that the application is endorsed by the FIA and the
Promoter. Number 1 may only be chosen by the World Champion driver of the previous season. Requested
numbers may not be greater than 99.
Thierry Neuville has requested #11
Would be nice to see Seb Loeb use #9
i bet noone takes number 69 ... at least not willingly
In the world of MotoGP (and WSBK), number 69 was used by ex world champion Nicky Hayden.
Nicky was killed whilst cycle training a couple of years ago.
I'm not sure if the number was retired in motorcycle racing as a mark of respect, but maybe it can be used in other series (maybe in respect for Nicky rather than any sexual connotation)
Personal numbers seem important in other motorsports, like Rossi 46 & Block 43.
More for image and marketing than anything else.
33 for Eflyn Evans https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DwidYc5XcAAoyHH.jpg
Awesome livery again from M-Sport!
3 for Suninen
https://twitter.com/TeemuSuninenRac/...87416121765888
Great livery!
Latvala should be 10
Meeke must be 5 or 6
https://scontent.fopo3-1.fna.fbcdn.n...5d&oe=5CC747EF
8 to Tänak
Ogier can picked 2 and use 1 as champion.
Meeke will maybe be 5 for his number of wins?
Loeb probably 9.
Loeb is >20... check entry list (only WRC unknown): https://www.ewrc-results.com/entries...te-carlo-2019/
I must say that I am against this permanent numbers. Especially, if they are higher for WRC drivers than for others...
I am with you this time. Stupid rule. We use it in Portugal by 2 years :(
Why all bother too much with this useless numbers. I don't even notice them because it's not important at all. Drivers are pretty much recognized by the roof tops and side mirrors.
If you don't like them, don't.
There is seriously nothing to lose from this.
It's quite a pointless, yes. But maybe it can help with marketing etc.
After hearing drivers silly answers about their numbers choices it’s hard to find a valid reason for having this new rule. The WRC is not a circuit racing series with a limited and permanent number of drivers; it’s an open sport which allows new crews to get in at any new event and local amateurs to run alongside the series pros; that’s why we have seeded entry lists according to drivers status. The current rule already allowed P drivers to keep their numbers through the season, the new one will just add unnecessary confusion.
Once for all, the FIA should care about preserving each series nature instead of forcing rules changes just because they seem popular or easy to implement.
Agree with this, but then I'm in favour of numbers by seeding for all events and that's just not going to happen.
Part of the NASCAR and now F1 reasoning for this was also branding (colours, fonts) of numbers; are WRC going to forgo the standardised sponsored number plates this year too?
At the end of the day, it's a small irritant to see Evans in the midst of the R5s on the entry list and Mikkelsen amongst the R2s, but it's not the biggest problem around!
i agree too with Power and PLuto. i would have preferred it the old way or, if they wanted to change it so much then they should have made a rule that say the must use the number they finished in the championship.
Ogier nr.1, Neuville nr.2, Tänak nr.3 and etc.