World Rally Championship 2022

hope m sport, their drivers and their fortunes improve next season, would be great to see the blue oval challenging for the honours...

see Nagle announced his retirement after Spain this season so new partner for Breen it seems....

Oliver Solberg has been let go by Hyundai so will be interesting to see what his team have planned next for him. A season at M Sport in a Rally2 car and maybe one or two outings in the big car? Monster Energy money and Papa Solberg's connections with the team may help grease the wheels.

and Tanak has also announced his leaving Hyundai after Japan... who will fill the seat.....? Paddon get a deserved chance? Meeke returns? lol!!!

Ollie Solberg was out on the Cambrian Rally yesterday 29/10, in North Wales.

He won by nearly 2 minutes which I guess goes to show that he is at a very high level and above the top BRC contenders

https://dirtfish.com/rally/brc/solberg-rediscovers-his-rallying-love-on-cambrian/

Chris

hhmm wonder if hyundai will have a rethink re ollie, if tanaks move came out of the blue for them,,,.

Another rally another Breen crash..

hhmmm.....

breen dumped my m sport after one year....  hes had a few crashes indeed but finished the season well ahead of greensmith.... who apparently stays...  hhmmm
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Wilson said the lack of consistency in terms of podiums and points was the driving factor in the change of policy for next season.

so if thats the case Gus will be leaaving too then?

bmd wrote:breen dumped my m sport after one year....  hes had a few crashes indeed but finished the season well ahead of greensmith.... who apparently stays...  hhmmm
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Wilson said the lack of consistency in terms of podiums and points was the driving factor in the change of policy for next season.

so if thats the case Gus will be leaaving too then?

Unfortunately not a surprise (despite being a disappointment), but echoes of Meeke - fast and capable of great things/running at the top of the field, he did have a tendency to properly bin a car and these are not cheap beasts to repair, especially for a privateer team such as m-sport.

so what about evans to m sport as number 1 driver, (poisoned chalice tho obviously based on breen decision), tanak to replace evans, breen to replace tanak?

yeah point taken paul, its an expensive game... ive always put vatanen, mcrae, meeke in that kind of win-or-crash trying boat but i think craig is a little more measured... of course i may be totally wrong lol!!

bmd wrote:so what about evans to m sport as number 1 driver, (poisoned chalice tho obviously based on breen decision), tanak to replace evans, breen to replace tanak?

Is evans to m sport speculation or confirmed Billy? I’d have him back but he seems to have lost his mojo a bit this year after the near miss on winning the title.

bmd wrote:yeah point taken paul, its an expensive game... ive always put vatanen, mcrae, meeke in that kind of win-or-crash trying boat but i think craig is a little more measured... of course i may be totally wrong lol!!

That’s not the worst group to lump him in with - immensely talented driver and a fundamentally good guy and may well just be bad luck as you have correctly highlighted he started the season strongly and still finished well ahead of greensmith- the margin between success and disaster is tiny but the very best like ogier and loeb seem to find the right side of that knife edge more often than not.

total speculation at this point mate.... just looking at possible moves, openings and options for drivers after end of the season...

breen return to hyundai seems quite a popular potential move though...

might be boost that evans needs, come out from kalles shadow and lead the blue oval....

a conspiracy theorist might propose m sport seeing tanak as better bet than breen, and he surely wont sit for long without a contract...

so breen confirmed back with hyundai with shared drive with sordo...

bmd wrote:so breen confirmed back with hyundai with shared drive with sordo...

Sordo on tarmac i’d guess

yep id say so...

Tanak and Solberg may drive a private Ford team in 2023?????

https://news.err.ee/1608794113/spanish-media-ott-tanak-may-drive-for-monster-sponsored-ford-team-in-2023

Chris

would be better than not at all.. wrc needs more teams...