Rally2 (ex-R5) News

[OldF]

I start feeling that everyone is against my opinion. But what the ****, **** happens.

Thanks dimviii,

If I understood your comment right, a 4WD car only have one wheel in the air (one fourth of the torque) in a hair pin compared to a front wheel car which have the inside of the front wheel very light and therefore more stress is on the outer wheel transferring the torque to the outer wheel.

But what is when going after a hairpin on the throttle? I would imagine all the driving wheels have all the torque and for a two wheel drive car all the torque is on front wheels.

[dimviii]

when you have spin you have less stress,and a 2wd with 200-350nmat 2 wheels is easier to spin than a 4wd

[Hartusvuori]

M-Sport's Ford Fiesta R5 nears completion

With 90 per cent of the Fiesta R5 differing from its RRC and RS WRC counterparts, the latest addition to Ford’s ‘Ladder of Opportunity’ will include a new transmission developed in conjunction with Sadev and a new engine – with a 32mm restrictor – developed in-house by M-Sport’s engineers.

[stefanvv]

M-Sport's Ford Fiesta R5 nears completion

So M-Sport seem will be ready with R5 before Peugeot I guess? Nothing is said about the engine maintenance milleage interval...

[Mirek]

M-Sport always puts maintenance schedule on the internet so we can sure have a look soon

[OldF]

So M-Sport seem will be ready with R5 before Peugeot I guess? Nothing is said about the engine maintenance milleage interval...

The early bird gets the worm . M-Sport should publish more pics of the R5.

[RS]

Looks like a proper rally car. Hope it sounds like one too.

Looking forward to seeing the testing vids.

[TheFlyingTuga]

M-Sport should publish more pics of the R5.

Probably they can't! The car is said to be a version of the ST, and the new front, althought it's known, will be just officialy presented in Detroit 2013! Maybe they will present their rallycross M-Sport contender as well by then :P

[Jack4688`]

Quote from autosport.com article on the Fiesta R5 "...senior figures in the sport are calling for the simpler and more cost-effective R5 regulations to be used as the basis of the World Rally Car post-2015."

Fairly unreliable source though - David Evans of Autosport and Motorsport News often talks utter garbage

[tommeke_B]

I would like to see R5 form the new WRC cars in the future, why not with a bigger restrictor? FIA missed a great chance with S2000's some 5 years ago... The current WRC cars are way too expensive for privateers, with running cost being almost 2x what it was 10 years ago (while they are more simplistic now, no water-injection, no electronic diffs etc.)... That together with the long events (Argentina 500kms?) and the current situation in the WRC and the economical situation (big companies hesitate and wait a lot with investments because many things are uncertain now) explains why we have only 10-15 WRC-cars in an event while it was often above 30 some 10 years ago.