DG Sport seems odd to me, because they work together with Peugeot Belgium since a couple of years. They run the official Peugeot Belgium program.Quote:
Originally Posted by br21
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DG Sport seems odd to me, because they work together with Peugeot Belgium since a couple of years. They run the official Peugeot Belgium program.Quote:
Originally Posted by br21
They are testing the Polo in Austria now for the next 3 days on tarmac (wet/ice), rumoured Drivers are Tidemand, Baumschlager and Depping.
I hope that true; Multiple times Lithuania champion Vytautas Švedas has Lithuania's VW, Audi, Seat dealers backing and hoping eventually he will drive Polo R5 to rally stages.Quote:
Originally Posted by PLuto
BRC NEWS: The Proton Iriz is due to be homologated by the start of April #BRC https://t.co/LDmRU7sSf4
Bonato by Seb2Rallye: https://youtu.be/7E-hi4WbKD0
Polo R5 video test
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgCxQSKppXk&t=62s
Bonato day 2 by Seb2Rallye: https://youtu.be/NzXvQuRnB08
Lefebvre by Seb2Rallye: https://youtu.be/tCmuU4oEYiU
Did I see a Fabia R5 in the background in 0:25 ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Andre Oliveira
Looks a bit like that yeahQuote:
Originally Posted by sete
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Everybody compares internally their cars with competitors and use their design for inspiration ;)
What a strange coincidence ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by sete
Rendina's stolled car appeared it seems, pic by Giannis Raptis
https://scontent.fopo2-1.fna.fbcdn.n...a1&oe=5AE8E46E
Holy shit, surely some parts are traceable.
What are your expectations of the C3 R5, compared to the top two, on both surfaces?
Well, I'd expect it to be on par with the Fabia. As far as the Fiesta goes, it is the oldest R5 car, and so I think they have already reached its potential so to speak. Hopefully they've learnt from their mistakes in the C3 WRC development and the old PSA R5s as well. It was good to see many various drivers to test it, even though I would have liked some more experienced ones, like Bouffier or Sarrazin, hell, even Loeb, to get a test with it as well. So all in all, hopefully it is a good car, and many will be on the stages challenging for wins and titles.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sulland
I'm not so optimistic like You for several reasons.
1) Although the base EP6 engine went meanwhile through some serious development it still brings some cons compared to the direct opponents. It has narrow pistons and small space for valves, overall non-ideal bore-stroke ratio and likely less robust block.
2) We can see that even the higher-priority project, i.e. C3 WRC suffers from many problems.
For sure I believe that C3 will be a step forward from DS3 or 208 but I don't believe that it's going to be a car to beat.
Could PSA use the Opel A16SHT engine, that is in the Astra, now that they have that one inside their umbrella?
Guess it is too late now, but could they re homologate with new block later?
No, unless they use the engine in some Citroën model. Also in my opinion the two litre turbo from Astra OPC would be a better base.
Hmm, yes, is there much of a black market for Fabia R5 parts?Quote:
Originally Posted by Francis44
Well that engine from OPC is very powerful, downsized it still could be powerful and reliable. Wonder what engine Holzer used in Opel R5.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
it has also 86 mm bore, same as Mitsubishi 4B11/Hyundai Theta which is a basis for very good Hyundai R5 engine. M-sport has 83 mm, Škoda has 82,5 mm, PSA EP6 has only 77 mm.Quote:
Originally Posted by electroliquid
First 15 Polo R5s goes to
- 3x Baumschlager in Austria
- 3x Paraguy to Miguel Carrizosa/DIESA S.A., a Volkswagen importer
- 2x BMA in Belgium
- 2x Printsport Oy, Finland
- 2x HK Racing team in Italy
- 1x THX Racing in Belgium
- 1x Kristoffersson Motorsport
- 1x to Portugal
Pedro Meireles?Quote:
Originally Posted by Hartusvuori
VW newsletter didn't mention to who in Portugal. All other customers were named.
A Racing Team by the name of Team Novadriver also mentioned that they were looking into rallying with the PoloQuote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
Cheers
2 for HK, means 2 for DMax Racing? Almost sure that's another branch of them? Like Thx is of DG Sport and SXM of JMotorsport.
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With Raimund Baumschlager being also one of the main test drivers, BRR is going to be the prime customer team again - They will have already lots of experience with the car straight from the beginning.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hartusvuori
Johan Kristoffersson in Polo R5 will be interesting. He has big potential.
Who says that Johan will drive the car? It looks more likely it will be for Veiby, whos dad is co-owner of KMSQuote:
Originally Posted by Rallyper
KMS will use more than one driver to get the best development data back to VW. Printsport also has a good relationship with EVEN Management, so lets see who will drive where!
EVEN stregthen the KMS rally know how:
https://translate.google.com/transla...laer-r5-bil%2F
I think that the engine performance need to be judged on the complete engine package, not on ''the bore''. The intake, exhaust, turbo, cooling... are from such a great importance to have it all optimised for that engine.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
Citroen decided to stay with that engine so they must be conviced that it will be possible to have a good performing engine.
The parameter while of course not the only one is important because the narrow space in PSA engine limits the size of valves.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tomvwb
The reason why they stay with it is simple - they don't have any other choice.
I would say Tidemand (he is EVEN driver), because there will not be factory cars Tidemand must use private car.Quote:
Originally Posted by pucky54
My first spontanious impression. And we all know his potential. Never said the car is especial for him, only interesting seeing him drive the car in rallies. Let´s wait and see.Quote:
Originally Posted by pucky54
The intake, exhaust, turbo, cooling etc. are replaceable parts, it could be optimized as needed, but engine block is main part, part where you start. if you get "wrong" block, you can optimize it whatever you want - it still be worse engine. Also decisions can be wrong.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tomvwb
Ryan Champion
The @vwrallytheworld R5 Polo testing today past the @BelowZeroIce lake in the hands of @GronholmM...
It will be a while until KMS gets their hands on a Polo R5.
https://translate.google.com/transla...r-p-rally.html
Petter Solberg RX
Well that was a fun Friday! It was fantastic to be back behind the wheel of a rally car and working with @volkswagenms on the new Polo R5 today