Maybe, but as dodge33cymru says, this isn't presently a problem in the case of TCR or GT3 and Audi producing a car for TCR was only announced a month or so ago. Time will tell.
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PSA made two R5's because sometimes competitors work on sponsorship with their local importer and in some countries it's not the same company that imports both Peugeot and Citroen. It's the same for their vans and other vehicles. So I don't see why Polo R5 would kill Skoda R5. They are even in different regions, yes they are under the same "hat" but still have separate engineering, separate budget, separate marketing programs.
If VW decided to run a works programme with the R5, one brand could concentrate on ERC and the other on WRC2.
M-Sport organized a R5 event to possible costumers last friday with 20/30 drivers. I saw an italian guy, Ingram, Adielsson, Costa,...
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Also Peter Bijvelds and Mats van den Brand tested it.
Also I've been there:)
Mostly UK people, some Portugese, Sweedish, Lithuanian, Dutch
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