National Rally championships News

[hari]

Du Hari, what's going on there in those photos? I saw 4-5 really nice cars: Volvo 240s
Do you have link to results for the class that they are in? Do you know what class? So encouraging to see the lessons proven in Sweden and Finland begin to spread...

There was some Volvo Cup for many years in Austria, but in the last few years it wasnt continued.
This year it looks like it could be reactivated - It was six cars at this event.

Results can be found here: http://rallye-daten.de/
Classes 6.5, 6.6, 6.3

[janvanvurpa]

There was some Volvo Cup for many years in Austria, but in the last few years it wasnt continued.
This year it looks like it could be reactivated - It was six cars at this event.

Results can be found here: http://rallye-daten.de/
Classes 6.5, 6.6, 6.3

Oh historic class..Seems they do pretty good.

I wonder if any of those guys dream about the Swedish Grupp H or Finnish F-cup with the best Volvos in the world and such freedom.. I am North America's biggest promoter of 240 Volvo as "the Ford Escort for North America"...bigger but that works better with our bigger trees, and hence bigger trucks which need bigger roads to get the trees out..

Cool photos.

[RS]

Quentin Giordano with a Sebastian Loeb Racing Fabia R5 in the French Championship this year. Funny to see Loeb running a Skoda after his career long association with PSA.

[Mirek]

Video from Giordano's test: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8rHuMXa4_Q

[dodge33cymru]

Quentin Giordano with a Sebastian Loeb Racing Fabia R5 in the French Championship this year. Funny to see Loeb running a Skoda after his career long association with PSA.

His own team have run Audis and McLarens in sportscar racing, but agree that does seem strange. Especially when his team definitely have access to a T16.

[mousti]

His own team have run Audis and McLarens in sportscar racing, but agree that does seem strange. Especially when his team definitely have access to a T16.

Those T16's are probably owned by SLR itself, that Fabia R5 is I think one that Giordano bought for himself but decided to let it run by SLR because he used to have the service from them. He was probably sick of it with all the problems on it allthough he crashed it sometimes too

[TWRC]

Sándor Ollé has received his Fabia R5, and he will do the entire Hungarian Championship with it. Balogh is also swithing from his Evo IX to a Fabia R5 (chassis 133 if my infos are correct). If everybody pulls it off, there will be between 15-20 R5s at most rounds this year. Also, there will be a 208 R2 Cup, the first one make cup here in almost a decade! So at the moment most things are looking good, let's hope it stays this way for the remainder of the saison.

[WUff1]

Sándor Ollé has received his Fabia R5, and he will do the entire Hungarian Championship with it. Balogh is also swithing from his Evo IX to a Fabia R5 (chassis 133 if my infos are correct). If everybody pulls it off, there will be between 15-20 R5s at most rounds this year. Also, there will be a 208 R2 Cup, the first one make cup here in almost a decade! So at the moment most things are looking good, let's hope it stays this way for the remainder of the saison.

Herczig is back with BRR I read?

[TWRC]

Herczig is back with BRR I read?

Yes, and with strong financial background still. They started preparing for the new season way earlier than the others could, so I expect them to be still the team to beat.

[hari]

Entry List Rebenland Rallye 2017 (Austria):
89 Teams total - 11 R5, 3 WRC
http://www.rebenland-rallye.at/2017/nennliste.html

Leading entries:
Hermann Neubauer Ford Fiesta WRC
Gerwald Grössing Ford Fiesta WRC
Gerhard Aigner Ford Fiesta WRC
Raimund Baumschlager Skoda Fabia R5
Andreas Aigner Skoda Fabia R5
Marijan Griebel Skoda Fabia R5
Christian Schuberth-Mrlik Skoda Fabia R5
Thomas Wallenwein Skoda Fabia R5
Niki Mayr-Melnhof Ford Fiesta R5
Gerald Rigler Ford Fiesta R5
Vlastimil Majercak Ford Fiesta R5
Andras Hadik Ford Fiesta R5
Laszlo Bodolai Ford Fiesta R5
Walter Mayer Peugeot 208 T16 R5