Talk:Volkswagen Polo R WRC/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Iazyges (talk · contribs) 17:20, 9 March 2018 (UTC)

Will start soon. Iazyges Consermonor Opus meum 17:20, 9 March 2018 (UTC)

Criteria

GA Criteria
GA Criteria: 1 1.a Y 1.b Y 2 2.a Y 2.b Y 2.c Y 2.d Y (3.8% is highest.) 3 3.a Y 3.b Y 4 4.a Y 5 5.a Y 6 6.a Y 6.b Y

• No DAB links Y
• No dead links Y
• No missing citations N:
  1. Mikkelsen was entered separately to allow him an additional thirty days of testing for the year, rather than having to share the existing test quota for manufacturer teams with Ogier and Latvala.
  2. In doing so, Ogier and Volkswagen broke Sébastien Loeb and Citroën's streak of nine consecutive World Drivers' and Manufacturers' Championship titles respectively.
  3. but the team did not nominate him to score manufacturer points in Australia.
  4. and finishing in the points in every rally. Latvala's win in Argentina, the ninth consecutive win by the Polo R WRC, broke the previous record of eight consecutive rally victories set by the Citroën DS3 WRC in 2011.
  5. Latvala finished the event second, with Mikkelsen struggling through the dust to seventh place. With his second World Championship title secured, Ogier went on to win the Wales Rally GB. Latvala and Mikkelsen struggled throughout, with Latvala finishing eighth and Mikkelsen retiring.
  6. Ogier and Latvala contested the entire season with the updated Polo, while Mikkelsen started the season with a car built to 2014 specifications before switching to the 2015 build ahead of the Rally of Portugal.
  7. prompting team principal Jost Capito to admit that his drivers' championship campaign was potentially over after just three rounds.
  8. Latvala crashed out on the opening leg of the rally and after restarting the next day, went on to finish fiftieth overall and was classified as the final driver eligible to score manufacturer points. Volkswagen Motorsport finished the season with twelve wins from thirteen rallies, while sister team Volkswagen Motorsport II were classified fifth in the final standings.
  9. The final round of the season took place in Australia and saw Mikkelsen claim his third rally win ahead of Ogier and Thierry Neuville. Latvala finished ninth overall after clipping a guardrail on the opening stage and breaking his suspension.

• @Prisonermonkeys: I will be placing the review on hold until the missing citations are dealt with. Iazyges Consermonor Opus meum 13:12, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
  • @Iazyges: — thanks for doing this. It might take me some time to address it; in the meantime, I am hoping I can enlist the likes of @Pelmeen10, @Tvx1, @MNSZ, @ToniGlu92 and @Kovpastish to help track down the missing references. Prisonermonkeys (talk) 00:47, 5 April 2018 (UTC)

• Iazyges, Prisonermonkeys, it has been one month since the review and the response. Pelmeen10 supplied references for two of the nine listed above, and added "citation needed" templates for the remaining seven, both on April 18, over two weeks ago. Will those seven cites be found soon? BlueMoonset (talk) 16:21, 5 May 2018 (UTC)

• User:BlueMoonset, I'm quite sure that all of that info can't be sourced. It could be true (I didn't write it though), but those sources are just not hanging around. --Pelmeen10 (talk) 05:45, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

  @Pelmeen10: The info will either need to be cited or removed. Iazyges Consermonor Opus meum 04:18, 25 June 2018 (UTC)

@Iazyges: Done. --Pelmeen10 (talk) 16:32, 21 July 2018 (UTC)

Prose Suggestions

Please note that all of these are suggestions, and can be implemented or ignored at your discretion.

• which are based upon the existing Super 2000 regulations, but powered by a turbocharged 1.6-litre engine rather than the normally aspirated 2-litre engine found in Super 2000 cars. suggest:

  which are based upon the existing Super 2000 regulations, but are powered by a turbocharged 1.6-litre engine instead of an aspirated 2-litre engine.

• with over seventy-five percent of the car having been developed during the off-season suggest changing developed to "modified".
• That is all my suggestions, passing now. -- Iazyges Consermonor Opus meum 21:52, 21 July 2018 (UTC)