The 2018 Rallying thread..(WRC, ERC, etc)

[Ranger 6]

That's great, early fans!!

My mum spent an hour one year in the same situation as there was a PC at the end of the road. All the cars coming out of Grizedale had to stop and she told me she fancied Carlos Sainz.......

[tyrrell]

Meeke signs for Toyota

[KillianB4]

Finally! I was starting to crack waiting for confirmation. I'll have to wear a toyota hat at rallylegend now.

[GravelBen]

Presumably means Lappi moving to Citroen as rumoured if those reports are true about Meeke. Tanak, Latvala and Meeke would be some serious rally-winning potential for Toyota next year, not to mention exciting for spectators!

Edited by GravelBen on Wednesday 10th October 10:23

[KillianB4]

GravelBen said:

Presumably means Lappi moving to Citroen as rumoured if those reports are true about Meeke. Tanak, Latvala and Meeke would be some serious rally-winning potential for Toyota next year, not to mention exciting for spectators!

Edited by GravelBen on Wednesday 10th October 10:23

Is Latvala a lock for Toyota for next year? Did I see rumblings of an MSport move on the cards?

[RyanTank]

was an outstanding GB for me this year. first one as a radio can in stage and had an awesome section in Myherin. for the first pass i stayed in the car and couldn't appreciate the full speed they currently achieve. but caught one or two from stage side in the afternoon and wow, just wow the speed is unbelievable! But what a classic event it turned out to be, from my perspective at least!
here's my badly filmed and edited video of GB https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELQWJuumXes

Did i say in here that Meeke was going to Toyota? I was chatting to a guy on the Patriot Stages about driver movement and he said then that it was a done deal, and that the pic Meeke instagramed the other day was from inside the Yaris. He also said Lappi has had a lot of seat time in the fiesta of late. not wanting to play second fiddle to anyone pretty much leaves just the front gunner position open at M-Sport. with Temu as his 2nd. not sure what of Elfyn when he hasnt been dogged with failures hes been the model team orders driver. I laugh at the comments elsewhere that it should have been a 2nd home win for Elfyn, if he hadn't retired with the misfire he would've had to drop time somewhere once Tanak stopped to allow Ogier the win.

Its all back on now for the last 2 rounds of the season with any of the top 3 able to take the win. I'll admit it'll be devastating for Thierry to lose it after being so strong this season and only being let down mechanically (as far as i remember). Ogier proving you need to finish to be in with the chance . . . . with a massive help from your team mate! And what a charge from Toyota and Tanak in the 2nd half of the season.
now Meekes in the mix for next year we should have more winners per rally and a closer championship!?

[Stoatman]

Great day all round . Some great photos here, but this is my favourite . Right place right time , no crowds . Oh and it’s my daughter lol

[df76]

That's a great photo!

Bit surprised by Toyota signing Meeke tbh. Seems pretty fortunate to get another chance.

[RyanTank]

Meeke and Nagle part ways.

Paddon rumoured to be headign to M-Sport, but without Seb Marshal who is tipped to join Mekke at Toyota.
Breen allegedly joining M-sport, along with everyone else who isn't confirmed elsewhere so far

[chunder27]

I have been convinced for years that there was something wrong in the Meeke car, either him not listening to notes or the notes being wrong in the first place.

So many accidents and silly mistakes, almost as if Meeke didn't hear them right or was ignoring a shout for a 5 and simply thinking "I'll make it a 6"

Either way, not as much discipline as their might be in other cars. Perhaps a change might bring about more discipline.

[GravelBen]

RyanTank said:

Meeke and Nagle part ways.

Paddon rumoured to be headign to M-Sport, but without Seb Marshal who is tipped to join Mekke at Toyota.
Breen allegedly joining M-sport, along with everyone else who isn't confirmed elsewhere so far

Silly season has been extra silly this year! I've lost track of how many different (often contradictory) rumours I've heard about most of the drivers, generally with little to no evidence behind them...

And then of course people who have repeated 3 or 4 different rumours about the same driver or team can say "I told you so" when one of them turns out to be true!

[GravelBen]

And on that note, I see Toyota have now officially announced Tanak / Latvala / Meeke team for next year (with Meeke co-driver to be confirmed later), and Citroen have confirmed Lappi. So those rumours were true at least

[bananachips]

And Kris has rolled already (not confirmed yet) this was sent to Colin Clark about an hour ago.

Edited by bananachips on Wednesday 17th October 13:49

Edited by bananachips on Wednesday 17th October 14:18

[tyrrell]

I hope this is a joke ? I cant believe he has binned a car already

[KillianB4]

Don't think its Meeke, must be old. There's what appears to be the number 17 on the window of the crashed car, nothing in the announcement video or on a twitter video of the car out testing either. So unless its proven otherwise, I call bullst on this one.

[KillianB4]

Although I was watching him at Rallylegend over the weekend and he was close to binning that fiesta in places. It's always too easy to believe Kris will have a prang.

[zeb]

Dont rate meeke ...too much mcrae and not enough burns.

bad run this season and he's out for good.

I had would have been more impressed if they would have given breen the drive personally.

[bananachips]

Jumped the gun on my part, apparently it's unsubstantiated and likely fake as someone has rightly pointed out.

[Allyc85]

Meeke testing, before engine issues ended the day early

https://twitter.com/se_rally/status/10525665137928...

[chunder27]

The thing is

You just wouldn't be surprised though would you!