Rally2 (ex-R5) News

[Mirek]

So simple but so beautiful colors!

[liposh]

So simple but so beautiful colors!

We´ll never have same taste...but alright that´s life.

[Rally Power]

Please don't regard those two titles as something to prove the competitiveness of the car.
Last year his main competition was Ib Kragh in an older, self-run 207 S2000. Kragh would have been champion if he hadn't gone off in the dark during the last round of the championship.
This year Kragh upgraded to a DS3 R5, but struggled mightily with it early in the year to get familiar with it and get it to drive to his liking. Still the championship came down to the final stage of the final round.
(...)
When you run with significantly better backing than your closest competitor (Jensen is supported by the importer of Peugeot) and the rest of the field has significantly worse equipment, you have to win.
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That Kenneth Madsen was able to win a round overall in what can best be described as a modern-day interpretation of a 306 Maxi (a Swift with a 2l racing engine around 300hp, FWD) and his younger brother Jacob was 2nd overall after the night stages of the final round IN AN ADAM R2 says everything about the current level at the top of Danish rallying. Sad but true.

It seems Danish rallying isn't at its best...
Jensen may not be the faster, but at least his team managed to prepare him a reliable 208! The team is an importer inhouse department or an external supplier paid by Pug Denmark?
Btw, Peugeot official presence in danish rally must be one of the most enduring all over Europe! I suppose they're doing it since the 80's. When did they start exactly? Any interruption?

[itix]

Spencer Sport needs a top WRC2 driver in Wales, to get a real measurement on the cars potential.

How can Spencer sport even compete in wrc 2 if it isn't FIA homologated?
Or are they running in the national class?

[itix]

We´ll never have same taste...but alright that´s life.

I agree with mirek... That's The best looking I have ever seen the Fabia R5. I still don't like the wheel archers though.

[dodge33cymru]

How can Spencer sport even compete in wrc 2 if it isn't FIA homologated?
Or are they running in the national class?

Yeah, they're running three cars in the national event that takes place in between the two passes of the international.

[Andre Oliveira]

[RICARDO75]

New car for Botka
http://www.duen.hu/hirek/uj_autoja_v...ropa-bajnoknak

[Andre Oliveira]

Chassis 10 from Grøndal

[ChristianArp]

It seems Danish rallying isn't at its best...
Jensen may not be the faster, but at least his team managed to prepare him a reliable 208! The team is an importer inhouse department or an external supplier paid by Pug Denmark?
Btw, Peugeot official presence in danish rally must be one of the most enduring all over Europe! I suppose they're doing it since the 80's. When did they start exactly? Any interruption?

Danish rallying is very far from the heyday of the 80's and 90's, but has taken a further step backwards this year. Long explanation!

The team is a bit of a combination. Last I heard (been a while, but the cars have not changed since, so I presume still accurate) it was a single full-time employee who took care of the cars. Rallying in Denmark is very much a grass-roots, do-it-yourself business without any specialist companies.
The guy in charge is former driver and mechanic Kjeld Seidler, who now works as technical director for Peugeot Denmark, with influence from both Christian Jensen and Brian Madsen. The intricacies I don't really know, but it seems to be Jensen in charge of the day-to-day maintenance of his car, Brian or Kim Madsen in charge of the same for the R2 and then they have their own mechanics for their own car at events.

From memory (I was born in 1990, so not completely certain), but the only official Peugeot absence from Danish rallying seems to be at the end of the 306 and 106 Maxi-era until Christian Jensen and Karl-Åge Jensen (no relation) got the importer on board for the 207 S2000-project, which then developped into the current R5.
The beginning of the presence I'm not completely sure of, but the legendary Jens Ole Kristiansen had official support in the mid-80s when he drove a home-built "205 T16". He helped start up the current project before retiring to Spain by the way.