World Rallycross Championship a.k.a RALLYX

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Originally Posted by dimviii

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJvSTHGSe7s

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Joni Wiman from Finland ;)

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Originally Posted by JUF

Petter said in an interview that the big teams have budgets of 10-15 Million Euros. I guess he meant Peugeot-Hansen.

EKS RX gets the support of Audi only since last year. Mattias and his team developed the S1 on their own. But when Audi realized that they get publicity when Ekström is successful, they started to support him.

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Cannot believe this is true, these budget numbers are too close to WRC team budgets ... It's only Petter's dream me thinks.

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Originally Posted by cali

Cannot believe this is true, these budget numbers are too close to WRC team budgets ... It's only Petter's dream me thinks.

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yes seems big numbers,but wrc numbers are much more.

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Originally Posted by cali

Cannot believe this is true, these budget numbers are too close to WRC team budgets ... It's only Petter's dream me thinks.

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I wouldn't be hugely surprised to find out that teams like Hansen and Hoonigan are throwing down that kind of money. I dread to think how much money went to M-Sport for developing the Focus, a customer WRC Fiesta must cost in the region of £500k so a beefed up, brand new 600hp Focus I'd have thought is at least that. Plus all the crew, expensive trucks, hotels, flights etc. etc. must rack up the ££££s fairly quickly.

I don't believe for a second they're spending anywhere close to those numbers.

Their personnel, logistics, even event costs are minuscule compared to a WRC team.

1 - 1.5 million for a team, I can believe.

I think they missed out a decimal point, there.

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Originally Posted by MrJan

I wouldn't be hugely surprised to find out that teams like Hansen and Hoonigan are throwing down that kind of money. I dread to think how much money went to M-Sport for developing the Focus, a customer WRC Fiesta must cost in the region of £500k so a beefed up, brand new 600hp Focus I'd have thought is at least that. Plus all the crew, expensive trucks, hotels, flights etc. etc. must rack up the ££££s fairly quickly.

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Still, 10-15 mil is unbelievable

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Petter only spent 3 million pounds on his 2010 privateer entry in the WRC with PS WRT.

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Originally Posted by mohit

What petter has managed with his team is commendable........

Latvia penalty was not required as both were hitting each other and its ekstrom who started it first, check the videos again.

Give petter ekrx Audi and get astonished.

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It wasn't just about hitting, Petter pushed Ekström off the track into the Armco barrier.
Small nudges might be ok but ramming other cars and deliberately pushing them off the track is not ok and does warrant a black flag.

Rent for competitive supercar is about 50.000€/race.

I remember when Brian Deegan joked on the radio that Dodge spent a million bucks on Travis car cuz he crashes too much, in 2013.
I also heard Block and Foust (block in Barbados, foust in TopGear) saying the GRC cars were "half million" bucks each
Not saying GRC and WRX cars have the same budget and program.. but its a starting point for this speculation! Im gonna ask the guys behind WRX to see if they have some info about budgets!