3 Burst results for "Callie Robin Perra"
The Autosport Podcast
"callie robin perra" Discussed on The Autosport Podcast
"Management skills could be exactly what hi and I need to pull this team together to really take on Toyota. Well, this time last year, like you say, Hyundai were in Dire Straits, you're about to head off to Monty. I think Thierry neuville, who was the highest place finish finisher for them, was something he was something 7 or 8 minutes off to leave. But they turned it around. Can they continue that in 2023 given that some people have said they screwed up by losing their star man? Well, this is interesting thing. So Tyrion Neville is still going to be there as the team leader, but they've brought in esophagus from Toyota, which is actually quite a shrewd little signing there. And they've got cry bring from M sport to share the third car with Danny solo. So all four of those are experienced heads and I'm three of them have won rallies, so they've got plenty of experience there to deliver what they need. For me, lapi is quite an interesting sign, because yes, he's going to take some time to get used to the car and everything, but having spoken to him after his first test in the Hyundai. He actually said there wasn't much of a gap between that and the toilet. He's just driven at the car that won the world championship last season. So clearly, if lapi thinks that there isn't much of a gap between the two cars, then we are probably set for quite some challenge and some championship this year. So yeah, from that side of things, I think lapis solid he will get you podiums. He will, he will challenge for victories. He's shown that he has the pace, but for me the area is probably the team leader still. And he's your best chance at a title, but a high and dive that's in control of itself and not chasing their title for 6 months. Could be quite a fearsome prospect for the rest of the field. Yeah, I think I agree with you that I think Thierry neuville is the undisputed team leader he's been there since the start cut him an eel bleed Hyundai. It's his team, but it's a full season for esope lappi. And I wouldn't want to get on the wrong side of him, a really nice guy, but once he's behind the wheel, eyes are really, really fierce competitor. Although, a lovely chap, like most of these guys are, but fiercely driven. So do you think there could possibly be a battle for number one status in that team? Going to assume that it's him our editor, Kevin Turner said on a recent podcast, it described him as always the bridesmaid never the bride. But I'm wondering is 2023, possibly Thierry time. Yeah, it could well be. It could well be for today but the problem he's got though is he's got obviously to try and stop calling and also we should mention often Evans in that mix too because he's definitely going to be in the mix as well. It's actually, yes, the entries are quite small in terms of rally one, but if you look at the quality of them, you could argue it's one of the best from terms of quality of driver that the championships had for a long time. Because they're all very capable. So yeah, it could be for Terry, but the thing with Thierry is he's got to he's got to perform better on the rallies that he doesn't like. So the rally Finland that those sort of areas. He sort of you could see last season he just felt I'm comfortable, so I'm just going to settle for four 5th or 6th. He kind of has to really push, I think, a bit harder if he really wants to win this championship because the likes of Robin pair and tan are not going to just settle in rallies where they think they're not going to be on the pace. And for Thierry, he has to cut out mistakes like Belgium last year when he crashed out the lead. You have got I don't think you can make any mistakes really this year without being punished because that's how close it could be. So for me, he's got to tardy himself up a little bit, but there's no questions about his commitment or his work ethic, he will, as you said, you cut him. He believes he will do everything possible. And I think it's summed up last year in Croatia where the car broke down. But yeah, he was willing to push it for a kilometer to get to the service. This guy just doesn't give up. He's an absolute warrior in terms of that. So yeah, it'd be interesting. As I said, lapi could be very useful to him because yeah, there was a bit of, should we say the relationship between Thierry and I wasn't the best, shall we say? And I think with lapi, he's a bit more, you know, I think he's a bit more amiable, shall we show you? It's unusual for a finite, it's a big stereotype, but when you talk to Tessa pecker, he's quite open lives to talk a lot. He likes to have a joke. You can he wears his heart on his sleeve. He's very sort of open and I think it could be a good mix. Okay, we've done two teams. We'll get on to the next one and we've made our listeners wait for our youngest ever world champion Callie Robin perra in the history of the sports. In a way, obviously winning the title last year was mega. But possibly, coming back to my thesis of this podcast that WRC is about to wake up as a sleeping giant that's been maybe waking up a little bit in recent years, but this year, if it all plays out how we think it might do with all of these top top drivers in different teams, could this be a more difficult challenge to defend his championship? I obviously agree.
The Autosport Podcast
"callie robin perra" Discussed on The Autosport Podcast
"The insights. So that's the start point obviously you move people around if they've done more than one category. They're sort of what I like to call the Sebastian Buemi criteria and he gets moved up or down depending on his wet versus formula E things. But then also, of course, you have to have a hierarchy of the championships. So obviously the obvious ones is like what F one would take is a Pinnacle of the sport, but how good a season has it been and how good a season is everything because it changes over time. The overall order is usually pretty similar. But some championships have strong years and some have weaker. You'd expect, for example, that next year drives in the world endurance championships hypercar class will be a lot higher up the list. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, suddenly we're going to have many more teams in professional drivers in well, both wet can hipster. So yeah, absolutely. I think sports car drivers. And sports car drives are very high a few years back when we had the really quick super LMP1 cars and we had Audi Portia and Toyota. They were higher. Now it's not been quite so strong, so they drop down. So we try and factor in that sort of thing as well. But we're trying to be fair, I think, is probably the point. Something I've wondered, when you look back over those 20 list 21 lists now, how good a job do you think we've done at creating a snapshot in time of motor sport in that year? Have we largely got it right, do you think? Yeah, I think so. I mean, obviously, I'm having to say that I was involved in a lot of them, but yeah, I did a last year because obviously it was the 20th, so I went back and I added up all the scores of every single driver that appeared in it. Well, you know, it seemed like a fun thing to do over Christmas, right? So was it just before? But anyway, yeah, so, and if you do that, you come up with a list of drivers that I think most people would agree. Okay, you can argue about the exact order, but the list of drivers was the ones that you'd say, yeah, they've probably been the standout drivers internationally for the last 20 years. I think towards the back end of the list, the second half of the list is also about trying to give drivers and championships that maybe answer obvious a little bit of a spotlight and just say, we haven't forgotten about this. This person deserves deserves a mention of a couple of those on this list this year. So it's getting them, I guess it's doing two things. One is it's trying to absolutely assess the top drivers in each year. That snapshot and the other snapshot is oh and here's some other highlights that you don't want to miss. It's one other thing before I started working here as an auto sport reader. I always felt that when you read that list, I always thought I had a bit of a good oversight of if you read autosport magazine every week, you think, well, I know, I know motor sport, but you're always there's always names now. You're like, who are they? They were. There have been certain members of staff during the process you've gone. Who's that? And they got an official warning, but they weren't sacked. But yeah, so that's why you do need. You need some people who've got an overview and obviously I'm receiving for the magazine I'm receiving copies from all the championships. Yes. James has a very good overview, Tom's enthusiastic enough that he's interested in lots of series. The F one guys perhaps not so much because they're on the F one beat all the time so they don't know as much outside of F one. So you try and dip into the areas of deep expertise that you've got. Yeah, Gary Watkins as well. We rely on him heavily with the sports car ones because you can look at stint averages, for example. You don't necessarily know who's running on the old tyres, he's looking after them, he's on the new ones, what they've been told to do, et cetera. So you really need the people on the ground, but then it requires it requires people like us as well to have a bit of an overview and go, yeah, but let's not dig too carried away with that championship, you know, we've got a slot in somewhere, so yeah, it's quite an involved process. There is one driver that I know Kevin is not particularly happy about how high we placed him on the list, but we gradually wore him down, didn't we Tom? Absolutely. We'll come to that. No doubt, but there's definitely enough evidence to back up that decision, I think. We will talk about some of the new entries, some of the drivers we've lost, including a top ten name last year who's nowhere to be seen in 2022, and it's not as if we're going to make your way to the end of the podcast. We're not going to count down the list. So we'll also give you the top 5 right now. It's an F one heavy list, as you may expect, and number 5 was George Russell. Number four was Lewis Hamilton, number three, Callie Robin perra. Number two Charles Leclerc number one Max Verstappen. Let's start with talking about number one. In previous years, Lewis has been number one. It's been a no brainer. There's been very few people arguing against. Although this list isn't really about arguing drivers out, you should be arguing in your drivers from your series. But James max being number one, any sort of contentious arguments there. I don't think there is really. I mean, the records that he's achieved this year. You can't really argue with that. Obviously we're going by what the Formula One guys have decided. So in some respects, that's out of our hands because we're not going to swap the order around and go, no, we think that guanajuato should be number one. Tell me what though, that did happen in the early days of the list if you go back there was less coherence between the contributor top tens and the top 50, but oh really? Yeah, yeah, looking at in 2005, we really hedged our bits. We had, I think, we get this right, I think the F one review had Alonso number one. Raikkonen was number one in the top 50 of the F one drivers, but the overall number one was best in life. Really hedging their bets that year. Just in case you missed someone. And we do, we do look down those lists of drivers through the field. So it's not a case of just picking out, well, he got the most points. You know, back in 2018, we put charla Clare in the top ten. And that certainly wasn't based on what he finished the championship, but we could see that that promise and that he had a great year. I mean, Daniel Ricciardo's topped the list twice, Robert Koch has topped the list as well. So it's not necessarily always about who wins the championship is the automatic number one pick. But this year, the weight of evidence does support, I think, a Max Verstappen at number one. He was very close last year. It must be said. It did go pretty much open until the last two weekends of the year where our poor correspondent, we weren't able to commit to giving him a word count of who was going to be number one and number two. But in this zone, this podcast last year we had a very extensive debate about the Lewis Hamilton versus Max Verstappen and things last year that they were so close and I think I made the point that when you've got two drivers who are so close, both in terms of results and I think they are overall level of performance. The way we basically differentiated it in the end was the will to will stuff and the fact that max had overstepped the mark on more occasions. So there was just edged it whereas in previous years it had been more obvious this year. Okay, so max had that slightly dubious thing with mixing your accuracy over stone, but that wasn't a crash and then he obviously switched to the magnets back on interlagos, but that was one
The Autosport Podcast
"callie robin perra" Discussed on The Autosport Podcast
"Following this one, prepare to be amazed. Colin McRae's previous record of being the youngest, world rally champion at 27, hasn't just been beaten. It just got smashed. Let's find out who just became the youngest ever champion how he ended Finland's 20 year wait for a title. And what he can do for the future of the sport. Let's get up to speed with autosports, Tom Howard Tom. Welcome back to the podcast. Thanks for having us. Back on the show. So you just witnessed history being made in New Zealand with the youngest ever champion. The world rally championship. Let's remind ourselves, though, who the previous youngest champion was, tell us more. The legend that is all that was sadly Colin mccrea, certainly for me, he was a hero of mine growing up one of the reasons why I even got hooked into watching rallying and I'm sure there's several people of similar age to myself and an older and younger that would have also enjoyed watching Colin McRae. He was a real special talent on the his only world title in 1995 and did that at the age of 27, which was the youngest at the time. 27 back there would have been seen very, very young because champions were sort of, you know, the late 20s, early 30s, and sometimes mid 30s were sort of seen as the prime age to win a world title. So yes, Conor McRae was known as the mister maxim of attack. He was a very exciting driver to watch race for Subaru, the factory team and his early 90s then went to Ford and then he had his final season with citron in 2003. He still regarded as one of the legends of the sport even today, 26 years on since his world title. And in the top level of rallying in the modern era, tell me about the recent champions. And how long they'd been driving? Were they also all older? Inverted commas. Champions. If you're not too familiar with rallying and WRC, then in the last few couple of decades, we say it's been dominated by two Sebastian's two French French rally drivers, Sebastian Loeb, and Sebastian ogier, Loeb has the 9 time world champion, the most successful and greatest rally driver of the ball. He has 80 world rally championship wins and has been competing even this year on a part time basis at the age of 48 and still winning events so Monte Carlo in January, so Sebastian ogier took over from him. One 8 titles and is the reigning world champion this year until Kelly Robin Perez success. That sort of period of dominance was split by tanak who won the world title in 2019 for Toyota. So that's how the world rally scene has played out over the last few years. While following rally New Zealand over the weekend, Callie Robin perra is now world champion. They call him king Kelly. You could also call him birthday boy. Tell us about the weekend and Callie Robin Pereira being the new world champion. What's a weekend if you or Kelly off of Paris celebrating your 22nd birthday? I don't know. He does get any better, I guess. If you're a rally driver or if you're if you're dream is to win the world rally champion, it doesn't get any better than the weekend that Callie Robin Perez just experienced not only has he become that the youngest ever world champion at the age of 22 and one day. He also became the first Finnish world champion for 20 years, so it ended that drought for a rally mad nation. So it's a massive deal for Finland. They've already announced that there's going to have a special celebration day in the country in his hometown of your vascular. So it's a big deal for Finland. And a big deal for Kelly Rothenberg. I mean, he's just a phenomenal talent. It's a record, I reckon we won't see beaten. A new benchmark, which I think is just above and beyond what anyone could have imagined. Now, he hasn't come from nowhere, like all overnight success stories. It's been 20 years in the making. Maybe 22 years in the making. Because in the beginning, there was Harry, Robin pere. Yep, Callie's father, WRC driver, 1993 to 2006. What happened with his dad's career and how did that lead into Cali getting behind the wheel? Harry Robin pere a former factory driver for Peugeot and sayat as well and it's a bushy. So he's been around a while as Harry. But I only ever won one rally back in 2001 at Sweden. So he was a regular podium finisher, but never really a title contender. He was what you'd call, I guess, a very safe pair of hands. You would have implored him to just pick up the points and be that sort of driver there, but perhaps not the one you put your money behind to lead your team to a title. He's really has some helped build obviously his son Kelly wrote from pair in terms of the rally driver. From an early age, he's got him in the car in cars driving from I think 8 or 9. He's been Cali has been driving some sort of vehicle. What do you think about it? Yes, he's the youngest of a world champion at the age of 22, but he's been driving things for a very long time. And our over that time, you just build the skills. Boy, as he built some skills because most of the paddock most of the service park sorry would envy the skills that Kali Roth and bear have his age. Certainly, you just watching him, he is he has skills beyond his years. The composure that he has behind the wheel, I don't think we have seen in many drivers in all motor sport. It's something that I generally can't really describe, but he just has this sort of, I just jump in the car and I just go and do it. There's no worries, there is no sort of panic. He's machine like, I guess. Is the only way to sort of it's just a machine. I'm generally speechless at how good he is because we're obviously fold him all season 6 rally wins. But he just has this ability to just destroy his rivals, but he's real skill. And I guess this is sort of comes back to all those years that you've been training in all sorts of cars, trying to learn car control. And it's his car control, which sets him about apart from the rest, because when the weather gets tricky, Cali rov repair is untouchable. There is no one that can come near him when it starts raining or gets slippery.