More WRC news
Well this really made my day hearing about this news
Teams for 2005
Subaru - Solberg and Hirvonen
Peugeot - Gronholm and Martin with Carlsson and Robert as there 3rd drivers sharing the drive
Citroen - Loeb and Duval (maybee) with Sainz as test driver and doig the occasional drive as third driver
BP FORD - they are going for a set of young guys next year - Tuohino, latvala, but they are very keen to leep Martin and Duval if ford get to continue next year
Mitsubushi - Panizzi, Sohlberg, Sola, Galli but one of them has to go
Skoda - Gardemeister, Schwarz, Ekstrom
Next years callender (provisional)
Monte carlo - January 20-23
Sweeden - February 10-13
Mexico - March 10-13
New Zealand - April 7-10
Italia - April 18 - May 1
Cyprus - May 28-29
Acropolis - June 16 -19
Argentian - July 7-10
Finland - August 4-7
Germany - August 25-28
Wales - September 15-18
Japan - September 29 - October 1
Corsica - October 13-16
Catalunya - October 27-30
Australia - November 10-13
Ford and next years WRC
It looks more like ford could be still in the WRC next year, they have allready begun development on the NEW car based on the NEW FOCUS that is due out at the end of this year
Ford are very keen to keep there existing drivers but if they dont get a certain answer soon it looks doubtful that this will happen. This means that there will be a selection of young guns ready to enter the ford team such as Janne Tuohino, Jari-Matti Latvala and even Malcom wilsons son Matthew which i think is taking the piss a bit since he has only been competing in any type of rally event atall for about a year but if ford get there way then its between those three who gets the third drive
New Cirtoen C4 and Suzuki Swift
The New C4 that is going to replace the old Xsara is not getting into the main development stages atthe moment while they are testing it it is basically running the same chassis as the Xsara is at the moment but it is not getting the full deveolpemt on it in the next few months withCarlos Sainz testing it
The new suzuki Swift has been made to replace the Suzuki Ignis in the JWRC for next year but there is roumer that in a few years that there could be a 4WD turbo version that could be suzukis entery in the WRC should be good
Cedric - I sound like a chipmunk on there. Some friends of mine were like, "were you going through puberty?" I was like, no I was already 20, I just sound like a girl.