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R5 is the original name for the Rally2 class. The 208 R5 were built under the same rules but they are outdated now with their development long abandoned. Fiesta R5 and 208 R5 were the very first cars...

3-cylinder itself doesn't mean that the car is less powerful than 4-cylinder. It can be vice versa because for the same volume you may have less innertia, less friction etc.

The question is how...

I love the look of the car!

For some reason I like the look of the Yaris Rally2 much more than the Rally1.

Eddie, the current Fiesta has been in competition since 2019. In motorsport that's like forever. The VW managed to introduce, to fix and to retire the Polo R5 in just two years.

I dare to say Polo was probably not that difficult car to drive in its nature but a rather difficult (or complex) car to properly set and service.



I somewhat disagree. There was quite a...

And so what? What you are trying to say?

As other wrote. Škoda Motorsport works on its own budget as a self-sufficient business.

440 Fabia R5 sold... that's a nice business!

No, that's not the case. It's customers who want the rules to stay the same. Unlike WRC the Rally2 class is about a product which generates profit. You can't sell one which the customers don't want...

You can see that there is a very significant drop in investments and cash flow already second year in a row and it's clear that Q4 2021 will be much worse than the rest of the year. That may have...

The complete Škoda Auto company was on halt for last two weeks and people were at home for reduced salary. They started building stock cars again today but only on limited scale. There are tens of...

Completely different type or roads and required driving style. He said himself that he was struggling with pacenotes in Catalunya.

Be careful. When something is more primitive it doesn't automatically mean also harder to drive. The more primitive cars have an advantage that they usually behave very predictable albeit less...

IMHO neutral behavior is impossible to achieve without the center differential. In my purely theoretical understanding going from understeering to oversteering is somewhat typical for powerfull 4WD...

In theory (mine) Polo should be better for very fast gravel/snow while Fabia shall be better for rough, slow and twisty stuff.

But I guess that the main issue with Polo is the end of VW Motorsport...

If they homologate problematic or slow car the entire business will be ruined because as you know under Rally2 regulations you have little chances to fix things. The car must be perfect right from...

They are going to win both WRC2 and ERC and maybe even WRC3 without being involved on the works level themselves. That means they don't need to hurry. Besides that I heard the new car was still far...

A clash with reality. Unlike with the Rally1 cars the manufacturers need to persuade the customers to buy their Rally2 cars and the simple fact is that they can't selll what no-one wants. At least...

Somewhat expected but still interesting to see that the old Fabia keeps to be the dominating car on rough gravel.

On the other hand I'm really negatively surprised how slow Gryazin is with the...

He used to be somewhat more competitive few years back but since his heavy injury from Barum 2019 crash he seems to drive slower.

You can not design a car for incorporating something which doesn't exist even on paper at the time. The rules for hybrids didn't exist when Fiesta and all older cars were developped. New i20 N or...

No. You can't retrofit that to already produced cars. They were not designed for that.

mknight is correct - the hybrids must be faster than the normal R5/Rally2 cars otherwise it can not work...

That was a pretty terrible debut for the new i20 N...

I know I'm biased but I really like it.
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