2015 News and Results

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Originally Posted by Mirek

If anything else it's totally unfair for all those who bought the cars.

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... and to a lesser extent also for all those who more or less regularly rent this cars, e.g. Bouffier in his 3 ERC outings this year.

It also makes ERC less transmissible for WRC drivers wanting to test in an ERC rally (ok, this doesn´t happen too often, but it happens, like Kubica this year at Jänner Rallye).

Most of them were rented this year. It's bad for Pech and Moffet

FORD FIESTA RRC #41 GP RACING - Bryan Bouffier (Tour de Corse)

FORD FIESTA RRC #17 Stéphane Sarrazin (Tour de Corse)

FORD FIESTA RRC #36 GMA Racing - Philippe Roux (Valais)

FORD FIESTA RRC #26 Al-Rajhi (Cyprus)

FORD FIESTA RRC #25 AT RACING - Bernardo Sousa (Azores)

FORD FIESTA RRC #16 Sam Moffet (Ireland)

FORD FIESTA RRC #30 M-SPORT - Robert Kubica (Jänner)

CITROËN DS3 RRC #5 PH SPORT - Bryan Buffier (Greece)

CITROËN DS3 RRC #16 PH SPORT - Bryan Bouffier (Latvia)

MINI COOPER RRC #24 INVELT - Vaclav Pech (Barum)

MINI COOPER RRC #22 INVELT - Vaclav Pech (Jänner)

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Originally Posted by WRC1

but lets be honest, how much more competitive are they really?? and how much RRC cars are arround?? 1-2 Citroens? 1 Mini? a few Fiestas?? and only in the hands of an real competitive driver these cars can show the full potential...so let them be, in latest 1 year R5 will be faster anyway (...as soon as Skoda R5 arrive)

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There is more than u think because every WRC 1.6t is a RRC but probably not everyone has those modifications though. DS3 RRC only ones I see driven is the one of PH and one in Italy I think the DS3 from Dmax.

Fabian Kreim replaces Sepp Wiegand in Škoda Deutschland. Looks like that he will do only DRM for the start. He was Opel Adam R2 driver this year.

http://www.rallye-magazin.de/rallyes...drm/index.html

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Originally Posted by Mirek

Fabian Kreim replaces Sepp Wiegand in Škoda Deutschland. Looks like that he will do only DRM for the start. He was Opel Adam R2 driver this year.

http://www.rallye-magazin.de/rallyes...drm/index.html

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I feel a little sorry for Wiegand, as he was not bad. But at the same time it was clear he was not going to be a German World Rally Champion (or even European Champion normally speaking)

This is really bad for him, even his co-driver stays.

So it´s also clear who drives ERC in 2015 for Skoda now.

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Originally Posted by mousti

And only on mountain rallies they maybe have slight advantage? But R5's with their turbo must be almost on the same speed I think. But yeah FIA....

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The RRCs are buildt as a WRCar, and they then put on a different flywheel, restrictor and smaller spoiler kit.
So the main differesnce btw R5 and RRC is not power, that are pretty similar, it is in the bits used in the rest of the car IMO. The RRCs are more durable in all aspects of the car than the R5s that are buildt with cheaper parts to keep the cost down.

(if this is completely wrong technically, there will be a couple of CZ boys correcting me... :-))

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Originally Posted by Sulland

The RRCs are buildt as a WRCar, and they then put on a different flywheel, restrictor and smaller spoiler kit.
So the main differesnce btw R5 and RRC is not power, that are pretty similar, it is in the bits used in the rest of the car IMO. The RRCs are more durable in all aspects of the car than the R5s that are buildt with cheaper parts to keep the cost down.

(if this is completely wrong technically, there will be a couple of CZ boys correcting me... :-))

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You are correct.

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Originally Posted by WUff1

This is really bad for him, even his co-driver stays.

So it´s also clear who drives ERC in 2015 for Skoda now.

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I think it is not so clear...

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Originally Posted by PLuto

I think it is not so clear...

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Is it clear how many cars Skoda will run in ERC?

Maybe Lappi to WRC2 and Kopecky + 1 new one in ERC would be a good solution?