Rally2 (ex-R5) News

[manthey]

Testing vid is here:

https://youtu.be/mE-KyyPSSXI

Very slippery and smoking exhaust

[pantealex]

Mikkelsen was testing the Fabia RS in Croatia today...

and Lindholm Thursday and/or Friday

[RS]

and Lindholm Thursday and/or Friday

And Pajari apparantely. I guess those three will be the Skoda backed drivers in Toksport next year.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Emil Lindholm Fabia RS walkaround:

https://youtu.be/GtIkI6Xofl8

https://www.skoda-motorsport.com/en/...in-60-seconds/

[Jarek Z]

Emil Lindholm Fabia RS walkaround:

https://youtu.be/GtIkI6Xofl8

Did you see the comments section? Chris Ingram likes it already!

[manthey]

Emil Lindholm Fabia RS walkaround:

https://youtu.be/GtIkI6Xofl8

https://www.skoda-motorsport.com/en/...in-60-seconds/

Why skoda never produced a Fabia Rally road version like Yaris GR...

[mknight]

Well I wonder how many we will see early next year.
Toksport would want at least 4 basically immediately. Kopecky also, but Czech championship starts later.

Regarding speed I don't doubt it will be fast on Finland, Sweden, Estonia type of roads and likely also on Catalunya type of roads

But especially at start I am not so sure it will be that great on Croatia/CZ roads or even slippery rallies.

After all the current Fabia has been constantly developed for ages. It also doesn't seem possible to do massive improvements using Rally2 rules (original Fabia R5 is for example not far behind latest EVO or new i20, Polo which hasn't been developed for 3? years is still up there, etc.).

[Jarek Z]

Why skoda never produced a Fabia Rally road version like Yaris GR...

You can buy Skoda Fabia Monte Carlo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeNfGTyKzdw

[manthey]

But especially at start I am not so sure it will be that great on Croatia/CZ roads or even slippery rallies.

After all the current Fabia has been constantly developed for ages. It also doesn't seem possible to do massive improvements using Rally2 rules (original Fabia R5 is for example not far behind latest EVO or new i20, Polo which hasn't been developed for 3? years is still up there, etc.).

Judging from the latest rainy video test ?
I assume there will be developments on suspensions based on the previous (actual) Fabia

[mknight]

Judging by the car having much longer wheelbase (think it now is the Rally2 with the longest wheelbase of them all.

So naturally it should be slower to react than the current one.