Wales Rally GB / Rally review
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The drivers of the year, Neuville and Ogier. The Belgian was the biggest surprise this year and developed into a real star. Ogier was in a class of his own looks hard to beat
in the coming years.
Interesting?
I see a few eyebrows raised after seeing the adjective ‘interesting’ in the former sentence. Before
we go to the rallying action of this year’s edition of
Wales Rally GB, we take you back on a little trip
through 2013. It all started in Monte Carlo where
Volkswagen debuted their long anticipated Polo
R. As we earlier indicated, the team came, saw
and conquered. Not right away but during the
season it became completely apparent that they
were the ones to beat. In the end it shows that
they are one step short of winning everything
possible. In Wales they had to try to achieve that:
the one/ two in the championship. Is that interesting? Well in a way it is: the global player VW
that sees a future in our beloved sport. They are
prepared to invest enough money and to take the
time to build a team that can’t be beaten. That’s
good, but perhaps for the sport it is even more
important they launched a PR campaign that is
directed at the general public in every possible
way. What company dares to put an old VW van
in Rallying the world livery up an extremely slippery mountain road leading to the holy shrine
of rallying, the (in-) famous Col de Turini? VW
does, and they continue to do so if we look at
their end-of-year ‘currywurst’ campaign. Check
YouTube for this little gem of a video.
Thierry Neuville. We don’t expect Hyundai to follow VW in it’s tracks in 2014, they didn’t take the
learning year that VW did, but we expect them to
be challenging quite a few teams in 2015.
The last interesting thing we noticed is the pro [