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teejay · #51 14-01-2009, 02:29 PM

Who knows where Mark would have ended up if he went to Renault in 05 in stead of Williams?

Renault - WDC and WCC in 05 and 06, Williams struggled to make it mid field.

muggz · #52 14-01-2009, 05:21 PM

They are saying Solberg (Petter) is getting approval to run his own car for Norway?

From WRC.com

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The organisers of Rally Norway have given Petter Solberg an extra week to finalise an entry for the winter event, round two of the WRC season, which starts on 11 February.

The official closing date for entries to Solberg’s home rally was 6 January, but organisers have made an exception for the 2003 world champion, who now has until 13 January to get an entry in.

On his website Solberg says he is still working ‘flat out’ to put together a deal for 2009 following Subaru’s exit from the series in December.

Petter said: “I am very happy for the new date, but there is still a lot of work to do before we are there.”

Solberg and co-driver Phil Mills will miss the season opener in Ireland. It will be the pair’s first WRC no-show since their debut event with Subaru - Rallye de France in 2000.

jEstEr? · #53 14-01-2009, 10:18 PM

yes, but he has missed rally ireland as he couldn't put a car and sponsorship package together. he had until yesterday

spookware · #54 15-01-2009, 05:03 AM

I stopped watching WRC when the cars become way to different than the road cars, there was no similarity to what you could buy off the show room floor at all. I fear also the V8's will go this way as well. Your just losing contact with the people that want to buy the cars. Bring back the old days where to qualify to race you had to build and sell a number of the road cars, then you were allowed to race that car (with a few safety mods like tires and a roll cage) the Citron bears absolutely no resemblance to anything in the product line nor the Ford,

Drags is where reality meets racing.

207 de · #55 15-01-2009, 07:29 AM

ok, I lost interest in the supercars when became a ford/holden thing. Morso, a Commodore Falcon V8 thing...Gay. Put a worked F6 in there and see who wins...

Rally lost the plot when the number of makes kept dropping. Still cool but not that cool watching the same cars drive around...

Anyone watch the Dakar? in South America? Now I actually find that quite interesting, for the shear endurance of it and the bit of freedom within the event when on open stages, to choose your path to some degree. some quality ex-WRC drivers in ther too nowdays, real journeymen.

[REXPLOIT] · #56 15-01-2009, 10:13 AM

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Originally Posted by 207 de

ok, I lost interest in the supercars when became a ford/holden thing. Morso, a Commodore Falcon V8 thing...Gay. Put a worked F6 in there and see who wins...

^ Here here.

This was SOOOO much better to watch, when it was the ATCC. *Recalls fond memories of Jaguars, Nissan GT-R's, BMW's, Commodores, Sierras, running around aussie tracks*. Brute horsepower of the time, (5L V8's), versus turbo power, versus handling gods. Those were the days...

As for Rally, I guess Ill never grow tired of it... as I consider it one of the very few 'real' motorsports. Man, versus clock, versus nature.

Brent.

teejay · #57 15-01-2009, 11:03 AM

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Originally Posted by spookware

I stopped watching WRC when the cars become way to different than the road cars, there was no similarity to what you could buy off the show room floor at all. I fear also the V8's will go this way as well. Your just losing contact with the people that want to buy the cars. Bring back the old days where to qualify to race you had to build and sell a number of the road cars, then you were allowed to race that car (with a few safety mods like tires and a roll cage) the Citron bears absolutely no resemblance to anything in the product line nor the Ford,

Drags is where reality meets racing.

Drags are the shittest form of racing possible.

And your talking about cars removed from reality? 20B powered RWD full chasis ford probes gulping methanol and nos running on slicks, seems pretty much identical the road car!

jEstEr? · #58 15-01-2009, 05:02 PM

heh, sif the v8 super cars are remotely anything like what you can buy today. 5L motorsport engines, motec engine managment, 9" ford rear ends and glass fibre body panels

Adrian · #59 15-01-2009, 05:49 PM

Atko in red ---- http://www.rallye-info.com/article.asp?sid=0&stid=7593

WRC · #60 15-01-2009, 05:57 PM

Says it all about Subarus WRC cars lately that he's so surprised at how well the Citroen handles.