Rally2 (ex-R5) News

[dimviii]

Hyundai's WRC team developing an R5-specification i20
By David Evans Thursday, July 9th 2015, 09:41 GMT

Hyundai, WRC

Hyundai will have a World Rally Championship WRC-2 specification i20 ready to compete by the middle of next season, with testing expected to start later this year.

Despite already being committed to building a new i20 WRC, the Alzenau-based team received a request from Hyundai's Korean HQ for the brand's motorsport programme to be more engaging around the world.

To be built to R5 regulations, the resulting new car will be eligible for the European Rally Championship and a host of domestic championships.

"I think customer activity is very important," Hyundai team principal Michel Nandan said.

"The World Rally Car is only for the WRC and a couple of other championships around the world.

"The only category of car you can run all around the world is R5, so it's a good decision from Hyundai to build the R5 - it shows they are here to compete in motorsport.

"It shows the global marketing and the sporting image of the company."

Nandan added that the R5 would use the same shell as the new World Rally Car, which made the process of building it to new regulations slightly easier.

"We are using a lot of the work done for the WRC car," he said.

"The roll cage philosophy's the same, we use the same shell, it's just the parts we put into the car.

"The R5 has much cheaper parts - the same upright for every corner and only two types of wishbone. It is more of a compromise car than a race car!

"But having the WRC agreed made our life more easy once the wish came from Korea to have an R5 car."

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[RICARDO75]

Unfortunately it's going to be another very ugly five-door version. But it's understandable to cut costs in the development.

[polo10]

Unfortunately it's going to be another very ugly five-door version. But it's understandable to cut costs in the development.

I don t think that the only 5 door R5 that is in the Market is ugly...do you think it is?...for me it is the most beautiful one (skoda)...five door doesn t mean ugly

[RICARDO75]

I like Skoda very much but between i20 5 door and coupe 3 door... the 5 door version is very ugly in my opinion

[Andre Oliveira]

Both WRC and R5 will be 2 door. Only to test this configuration

[TheFlyingTuga]

Actually no André! Michael Nandan said in a interview to Sportmotores in Rally PT that due to development issues with the road 2-door version of the car they will work on the 4-door version of the car for 2016, and if needed making a 2-door car for the new regs in 2017. At the time, he talked to about the R5 car, and a known source of mine confirmed that altough the car is being developed in another department in Alzenau, it will be based on the shell of the 4-door car.

Both articles in Portuguese in hee:

R5 talk:
http://www.sportmotores.com/portal/!...20055&id=42472

WRC 4-door talk:
http://www.sportmotores.com/portal/!...20055&id=42068

[manthey]

Regarding fabia's shocks positioning, 2 pictures

http://www.ewrc.cz/images/2015/photo...2015/km_30.jpg
http://www.ewrc.cz/images/2015/photo..._2015/km_3.jpg

[Mirek]

Maybe interesting for someone... I noticed in Ypres that Fabia has a lot softer helper springs than Fiesta. They are really tiny on Fabia.

[RS]

Just an idea, but does anyone think that the Fabia's suspension layout might help traction off the line and from slow corners by keeping the nose down and weight over the front wheels?

I noticed on a clip from Poland that the Fiesta, with its sloping front struts, means that the nose lifts a fair bit from the startline.

Fabia from start keep the nose down quite well: http://youtu.be/pMMiu6vVkjY

Fiesta at 1m30: https://youtu.be/O1JTGpqB2yo?t=1m30s

[br21]

Fords generally are pretty soft and bodyshell is rolling a lot, that's the way those cars are designed - all cars - WRC, R5, S2000.
Helper springs are usually not that important, especially on tarmac. In Fiesta Reigers helpers are around 20Nm, so no problem on tarmac, on very soft setup on gravel sometimes it's a problem, but only with really soft setup.
Anyway Fabia looks really good, especially engine is impressive from what I saw. Chassis is not yet that impressive I think, but already pretty good. Looking forward to work on that car in future, as it looks to be competitive car