Posts Tagged ‘budget’

PG trying to get four more rallies in the Skoda Fabia S2000

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
PG Andersson in his JM Racing Skoda Fabia S2000 on the Karlstad Super Special Stage earlier this month. Photo: Rasmus Bjerén

PG Andersson in his JM Racing Skoda Fabia S2000 on the Karlstad Super Special Stage earlier this month. Photo: Rasmus Bjerén

According to today’s NWT, PG Andersson is hoping for four more appearances in the Skoda Fabia Super2000 this year with the Czech JM Racing team following his superb win in the S2000 class in Sweden. The team is planning to enter six WRC events, and PG is aiming to drive four of them. The other two will probably go to other drivers, where one driver is already planned for Rally Japan.

The rallies PG is planning to enter is Rally Portugal followed by Rally Finland, Rally of France and Wales Rally GB. However, according to NWT, Andersson is still lacking around €200000 of his budget and if he doesn’t manage to get all the money he may skip France or GB.

The previous talks about Rally Sardinia is currently put on ice in favour of the mentioned four events.

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Petter has bought two Citroen C4 WRC

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

Petter has today announced that he has bought two Citroen C4 WRCs from Citroen Sport. Petter says the buy is a result of tough discussions between him and the manufacturer. The big question here is to which extent Petter has control over the cars when it comes to engine mappings, configurations and so on. The more control, the more likely Petter will be to be able to challenge for wins – and at least according to himself, Petter says he’ll be able to challenge for top placings.

Solberg expects to have his budget complete in the end of next week, and announce his team and sponsors after that. Until then, read todays announcement here.

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Henning Solberg close to a solution?

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

There has been big doubts about Henning Solberg’s plans the last few weeks, but in an interview at Motorsport.no, Solberg’s manager Leif Nilsen indicates that a solution is close. According to Nilsen, Henning will focus fully on rally – which means he will probably solve his rallycross car and buy a rally car for tests and events instead. Nilsen claims that a deal is 70% done and that multiple sponsors are currently in meetings – so a solution may be really close. Regarding the entry to Rally Sweden – that officially closed at 15PM today local time – the team says they have the situation “under control”. And of course they have… The organisers would be stupid if they didn’t accept a slightly late entry from a star like Henning, so that wont be a problem. Henning’s budget will be slightly higher than last year. Now the question is – what car will Henning drive?

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