2009 World Rally Championship

[Tyson Cierpial]

Yeah it looks like chris atkinson will be racing in rnd1 with citroen, but nothing concrete after that. Citroen have siad that they are very intrested in keeping him for long term though. lets hope chris manages to finish well.

 

[Matthew Parr]

Its a shame that Suzuki have pulled out im hoping to get an apprentiship with them next year

 

[Mark Birney]

Yeh, Atkinson is driving s sister Citroen to Loeb, good for him. Still, I'll miss Solberg at Rally Ireland this year, he just was out signing autographs, taking pictures, and never grumpy. Great bloke...

Maybe some day they'll come back. Here's to hoping!

 

[Wido Rossen]

VW considering rally entrance

Volkswagen is considering a move into the World Rally Championship and is expected to make a decision in the near future.

The German manufacturer will finalise plans for its future motorsport activity once it has completed this year's Dakar Rally.

VW motorsport director Kris Nissen revealed that the WRC is an option and said that a global motorsport programme is "important" to VW.

"We want to make a decision after Dakar," he told this week's Autosport magazine. "We have looked at the World Rally Championship and we have been keen to investigate whether this would be possible, as well as the Dakar or instead of the Dakar.

"Volkswagen is one of the world's biggest car manufacturers. International competition is really important - Dakar is international competition but so is the WRC. Nothing is decided yet."

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

Nice :thumb:

Big question: What car will they enter?

 

[Wido Rossen]

The Pheaton :rotfl:....no i think it would be the Golf or perhaps the Scirocco

 

[Ivor Topley]

Yeah its gotta be a model thats marketed worldwide, so must the Golf range, Golf six maybe?! I think its gr8 that a manufacturer wants to ENTER not EXIT atm. lol

 

[Ivor Topley]

Looks good! And we all know the Frenchies CAN build a rally car!! Here in S.A. we call this model "Klein maar ge-train". (Translated: "Small but well trained.")

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

That image is soo wallpapered on my desktop.. Super stuff William thanks

 

[Rudy van Buren]

a peugeot what looks nice never thought i would say that, hope the can keep up with the others

 

[Stephen Carson]

Rally Ireland - Start











Keep tuned for shots from Day 1 tomorrow

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

:kewl: bring on some more Stephen.

 

[Stephen Carson]

Day 1
Ok so here's the shots from a rather wet Day 1.

 

[Ross Balfour]

Im absolutely gutted I couldnt be ther, my dad was in a business trip so we couldnt go

 

[Hannu Karesola]

Pity that Latvala already wrecked his Focus after a promising start. Fast boy but keeps his car on the road like one well-known Scotsman

 

[Stephen Carson]

Not quite as wet today although with the stage structure we could only actually see 2 stages instead of the 4 that we saw yesterday.

















C&C welcome as always!

 

[Simon Trendell]

Fantastic screenshots

I lost most of my interest in the WRC a few years ago when Loeb starting winning all the time.

 

[Stephen Carson]

Me too, I don't actually actively follow the WRC any more. I generally just follow the Irish stuff.

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

Kimi as a rally driver!

[media]http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=x5UMhU7nGrE&feature=related[/media]

 

[Niklas Vesterinen]

Oh Kimi ..Great video!

I heard that Montezemolo himself (who drove the same event years ago) was actually at the event keeping an eye on the ice man. I hope Ferrari keeps letting Kimi do this kind of things. If they do then maybe we will see Kimi in F1 for a few more years, as he seems happier then ever at Ferrari.