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18 Nov 2003, 17:34 (Ref:787344)
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Citroen on McRae
A few quotes from Autosport's Rally GB supplement by the Citroen team. Perhaps the McRae bashers should have a quick read over these quotes before they start their next round of criticism.
 Guy Frequelin, Citroen team principal on McRae's 2003 season: "He has been unlucky this year. He has had lots of problems with things like the misting screen in New Zealand; in Sweden he had a misunderstanding with Derek and they spun a couple of times; he was quick in Argentina - then came Finland. He was very quick in Finland, but he got the minute penalty. Finland was good, though; we saw the old Colin. He showed how quickly he can still drive." Guy Frequelin on rating McRae and Sainz: "How can you choose between them? How can you choose between Colin McRae and Carlos Sainz? I had to." Guy Frequelin on Citroen's decision: "In the end it came down to marketing. In Britain it is hard to do the advertising showing the speed of the car. It was a marketing decision, certainly not a driving decision. These new regulations made things very, very difficult for me - and I am sorry to lose Colin." Alex Avril, Citroen car controller on McRae's 2003 season: "His only problem was luck...He didn't have any." Unfortunately these people ARE World Rallying so they know what they are talking about. 
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18 Nov 2003, 17:45 (Ref:787364)
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On the marketing theme, and purely by hearsay, I heard that Citroen UK made a policy decision not to include WRC in their UK road car marketing campaigns. Sounds like absolute barking madness to me - and a complete miscalculation of McRae's pulling power in the UK - but if it's true, I'm sure that had a bearing on the rally team decision.
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18 Nov 2003, 18:53 (Ref:787470)
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Glad u posted that Jock,far too many people jumping on the bandwagon and saying hes lost it and all that c**p
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18 Nov 2003, 19:26 (Ref:787501)
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Well its true what jock said and quoted,
But one of the main reason was that he did zippo promotion for Citroen |
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Cryos, thats me! To keep the national IQ higher, we prevent links in the signatures. Its clearly in the notice, but that doesn't stop some people moaning about it..
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19 Nov 2003, 08:31 (Ref:787945)
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Ironically Citroen have been running a TV ad in the UK for some time, showing a WRC car sliding around a Citroen car showroom - but the driver seems to be an actor, not a WRC driver, and certainly not Colin - very strange.
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19 Nov 2003, 09:39 (Ref:787998)
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Citroen, or any WRC team for that matter, would never let an actor drive a WRC car, no effing way.
Has to be a WRC driver that did most of the driving, or should i say, sliding? Last edited by ASCII Man; 19 Nov 2003 at 09:40. |
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19 Nov 2003, 11:21 (Ref:788056)
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There is no way its an WRC driver,it will be a less known driver which then switches to the actor stepping out of the car,just as they did with the Mcrae Focus advert.
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19 Nov 2003, 13:11 (Ref:788192)
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I'd forgotten about that ad!
Seems to contradict my 'hearsay' then! 
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