It was a road car he won, not a rally car. I'm sure he put the sale money towards his career as a real rally driver.
Maybe this shows just how tight their budget really is. Its already been heard of them re-using old parts and at times struggling for a test car. Is it known how many Rally1 Cars they've built...
That was exceptional circumstances. This situation is purely due to the state of the Championship when the team with the biggest history in the sport cant go on.
Lowest point was probably when they had to put the top class drivers to run RX2e cars for the final races of the season, after the whole fire on the Lancias drama.
So it seems like they are just changing number plates on cars? Monte - don't know Sweden - 926 (engine issues?) Kenya - old car 909 (old engine?) Canaries - 926(+ engine change) Portugal - 926...
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