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    Great shots, Raimund Baumschlager behind the wheel.

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    Quote Originally Posted by tc10a View Post
    Great shots, Raimund Baumschlager behind the wheel.
    Thank you! Some of those images are mine (RallyCaptures).
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    Great job

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    I don't really understand VAGs Motorsport strategy tbh. Sure they can borrow a lot of stuff off Skoda to keep the development costs down, and an R5 programme should be profit making. But on the other hand they will probably damage the sales of Skoda Motorsport (indeed we've already seen that if BRR are moving to the Polo)

    Sure they will bring some extra sales to the market from local VW importers e.t.c. but every Polo sale is not going to equal an extra R5 sale.

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    We could see from different point of view: They have knowledge form S2000, WRC, R5 programs, using that building car in other platform than Fabia R5 with low resources (while Fabia R5 is relatively new car), which would help to adapt R5 to other brand names (like SEAT) quite easy.
    PSA doing same, and only because their car isn't good enough, that don't work for them very well.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RS View Post
    I don't really understand VAGs Motorsport strategy tbh.
    They’re using the TCR recipe (the Golf and the A3 are based in the Leon), which proved to work fine. Besides, VW will not be competing Skoda as rival manu team and they’re contributing for a bigger diversity of R5 models, helping national and regional series to get stronger.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rally Power View Post
    They’re using the TCR recipe (the Golf and the A3 are based in the Leon), which proved to work fine. Besides, VW will not be competing Skoda as rival manu team and they’re contributing for a bigger diversity of R5 models, helping national and regional series to get stronger.
    I just hope VAG Motorsport programmes don't go the same way as the road car business where increasingly they are rebranding the same product and building them in the same factory.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RS View Post
    I just hope VAG Motorsport programmes don't go the same way as the road car business where increasingly they are rebranding the same product and building them in the same factory.
    Well itīs much more wrong that some people prefer Ford or VW with Mitsubishi engine (those Proto cars)
    or that new R4...

    I donīt care where they built those R5īs.
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    Quote Originally Posted by pantealex View Post
    Well itīs much more wrong that some people prefer Ford or VW with Mitsubishi engine (those Proto cars)
    or that new R4...
    Very true.

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    According to the British Rally Championship Twitter page, the R5 VW and Proton will be on the BRC stand at the Autosport Show in January. I imagine in the case of the Polo it'll be the mock-up we saw on 4th December, but we'll see.

    https://twitter.com/MSA_BRC/status/940665059717476352

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