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30th June 2011, 16:19
tfp

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Originally Posted by GigiGalliNo1

I hear the name Duval with VW ;)

:up:
30th June 2011, 16:57
Barreis

Quote:

Originally Posted by GigiGalliNo1

I hear the name Duval with VW ;)

Like.
30th June 2011, 17:03
alleskids

VW is in search for a young driver who can instantly deliver on gravel and tarmac. Only 3 drivers meet that subscription at this moment: Kris Meeke, Dani Sordo and Juha Hanninen. Mads Ostberg has lost his flow since Sweden, PG Andersson is a young upcoming talent for yoo many years now, Andreas Mikkelsen is too hot, he is burning himself occasionally. Ott Tanak is the only real hot youngster. For Citroen he would be too young, to replace Loeb if/WHEN he leaves Citroen at the end of this year, he would be perfect for VW. I expect Dani Sordo to be back to Citroen, to become the new Citroen tarmac king, and Nasser Al Attiyah to promote to the Prodrive/BMW factory team.
30th June 2011, 17:24
HaCo

So will this project completely kill the Skoda project? It would be a real pitty, they have been really succesfull. Is it not possible that VW provides their 1.6T to put into the Skoda S2000?
30th June 2011, 17:58
AndyRAC

Quote:

Originally Posted by GigiGalliNo1

I hear the name Duval with VW ;)

Which one?? I doubt it's either of them. Francois or Loic.........
30th June 2011, 18:01
AndyRAC

Quote:

Originally Posted by HaCo

So will this project completely kill the Skoda project? It would be a real pity, they have been really succesfull. Is it not possible that VW provides their 1.6T to put into the Skoda S2000?

It's a good question, as VW haven't liked their marques competing against each other. However todays announcement that Porsche is returning to Sportscars/Le Mans top class, could mean them taking on Audi. We'll find out soon enough if this policy continues.
30th June 2011, 18:53
Mirek

AFAIK all Škoda 1.6T development was abandoned few weeks a go after more than half year of testing with their own Oreca engine. WTCC 1.6T engines of Seat are built by Lehmann.
30th June 2011, 19:12
MJW

My guess is Audi concentrates on DTM leaving LeMans series to Porsche, I wonder if however it ends up like this, V6 Turbo in F1, common sense would badge that as Porsche but could be SEAT, Audi in DTM, VW in WRC, Skoda in WTCC?
30th June 2011, 20:28
OldF

The search for a young driver could also be made in such way that a tarmac driver compete with a gravel driver on gravel and vice versa and then compare their mutual performance. Even better if there where two tarmac and to gravel drivers in every event.

The disadvantage with this system is however that it doesn’t tell the potential of a driver’s learning curve on for the driver not so familiar surface.
30th June 2011, 21:02
skarderud

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Originally Posted by alleskids

VW is in search for a young driver who can instantly deliver on gravel and tarmac. Only 3 drivers meet that subscription at this moment: Kris Meeke, Dani Sordo and Juha Hanninen. Mads Ostberg has lost his flow since Sweden, PG Andersson is a young upcoming talent for yoo many years now, Andreas Mikkelsen is too hot, he is burning himself occasionally. Ott Tanak is the only real hot youngster. For Citroen he would be too young, to replace Loeb if/WHEN he leaves Citroen at the end of this year, he would be perfect for VW. I expect Dani Sordo to be back to Citroen, to become the new Citroen tarmac king, and Nasser Al Attiyah to promote to the Prodrive/BMW factory team.

mads hasn't lost his flow, his fiesta has.....
weard thing that happens to all not works drivers in a ford last couple of years.....
30th June 2011, 21:13
Rally Power

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Originally Posted by MJW

My guess is Audi concentrates on DTM leaving LeMans series to Porsche, I wonder if however it ends up like this, V6 Turbo in F1, common sense would badge that as Porsche but could be SEAT, Audi in DTM, VW in WRC, Skoda in WTCC?

What about the Dakar? Won´t any of the group makes profit from VW's experience?
30th June 2011, 21:34
alleskids

Porsche was/is marketing with their Cayenne in rally raids. It was tought that they would use the VW technice to build a Porsche Dakar winner
30th June 2011, 21:46
Allyc85

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Originally Posted by GigiGalliNo1

I hear the name Duval with VW ;)

It shows the **** state the WRC is in when crap drivers like him still get linked to drives....
30th June 2011, 23:36
AndyRAC

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Originally Posted by MJW

My guess is Audi concentrates on DTM leaving LeMans series to Porsche, I wonder if however it ends up like this, V6 Turbo in F1, common sense would badge that as Porsche but could be SEAT, Audi in DTM, VW in WRC, Skoda in WTCC?

Audi released a statement welcoming Porsche, but made it clear they would be staying, i;e probably a Petrol-Hybrid Porsche v Diesel Audi. Whatever, the VW Group are really ramping up their Motorsport effort - good to see!!
7th July 2011, 14:40
RS

Quote:

Originally Posted by HaCo

So will this project completely kill the Skoda project? It would be a real pitty, they have been really succesfull. Is it not possible that VW provides their 1.6T to put into the Skoda S2000?

I wonder whether the Skoda project is partly the victim of the slightly muddy and too small difference between WRC spec/RRC and "Super 1.6T" that runs on WRC events.
7th July 2011, 14:48
RS

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Originally Posted by skarderud

mads hasn't lost his flow, his fiesta has.....
weard thing that happens to all not works drivers in a ford last couple of years.....

Is it not just a case of being very good on Scandinavian style events but mediocre elsewhere?
8th July 2011, 23:17
Sulland

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Originally Posted by Mirek

AFAIK all Škoda 1.6T development was abandoned few weeks a go after more than half year of testing with their own Oreca engine. WTCC 1.6T engines of Seat are built by Lehmann.

What kind of rally engines has Lehmann build before ?
9th July 2011, 01:10
skarderud

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Originally Posted by RS

Is it not just a case of being very good on Scandinavian style events but mediocre elsewhere?

its just the case that msport didn't had "customer spec" ready in sweden, after they had.
with mads speed in his s2000 at the homeevents this summer, i'll trust you that the speed is there. he is par with anders grøndal in a impreza s10 wrc, and beats all other wrc's in the field.
9th July 2011, 17:50
MJW

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Originally Posted by Sulland

What kind of rally engines has Lehmann build before ?

you could get Lehmann built audi quattro engines back in the 1980's
9th July 2011, 18:55
Mirek

Also Octavia WRC - last Evo 2 and Evo 3, Fabia WRC Evo 2 (I'm not sure here...).
9th July 2011, 22:30
dimviii

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Originally Posted by Mirek

Also Octavia WRC - last Evo 2 and Evo 3, Fabia WRC Evo 2 (I'm not sure here...).

And Seat ibiza-vw golf kit car engines.
10th July 2011, 15:01
JRodrigues

So the new engine will be built by VW Motorsport??
11th July 2011, 15:50
GigiGalliNo1

Sorry but did anyone realise Petter Solberg to VW.... or Solberg is out of WRC like Henning!

MaxRally | News | Solberg moves closer to Volkswagen
11th July 2011, 18:33
focus206

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Originally Posted by GigiGalliNo1

Sorry but did anyone realise Petter Solberg to VW.... or Solberg is out of WRC like Henning!

MaxRally | News | Solberg moves closer to Volkswagen

Henning out of WRC? Didn't he skipped Argentina just to have the budget for a full 2012 season?
12th July 2011, 00:32
6789

Hope Petter signs then!!
12th July 2011, 00:44
N.O.T

Peter is going to be good for the VW team for 1-2 years...he has the name to attarct attention/sponsors to the team since the fans love him but also he is a good standard for the young ones to see what are they capable of.... Also WV could use him in the Dakar as well.
12th July 2011, 09:48
GigiGalliNo1

Don't think he'll do Dakar but wasn't Henning out of WRC soon? Maybe no more After 2012 eh
12th July 2011, 10:20
Barreis

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Originally Posted by 6789

Hope Petter signs then!!

+1
12th July 2011, 23:35
Plan9

I hear that VW is pulling out of Dakar. Rumor is that there will be many Mini Countryman's instead. If Petter does go 2 VW do you think his team will run private VW for some bright young things form Norway?
18th July 2011, 15:58
MartijnS

According to Rallye-Magazin.de , Hans Weijs and Christian Riedemann will drive for VW at Rally Germany!
18th July 2011, 17:16
MartijnS

http://www.volkswagen-motorsport.com...st=588&id=4592
18th July 2011, 18:20
N.O.T

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Originally Posted by MartijnS

According to Rallye-Magazin.de , Hans Weijs will drive for VW at Rally Germany!

good and logical choice.
18th July 2011, 18:20
focus206

Quote:

Originally Posted by MartijnS

According to Rallye-Magazin.de , Hans Weijs and Christian Riedemann will drive for VW at Rally Germany!

Good. I'm happy for Weijs Jr, he deserves a chanche. :)
18th July 2011, 21:02
Mirek

Yes, very nice news. I really like the fact that VW gives the boys a chance to show something with serious factory support.
18th July 2011, 21:14
darkstar

it´s pretty cool hat reidemann will get a chance! i hope he´s getting some test km. but in my opinion he´s a pretty good driver.
19th July 2011, 02:51
Plan9

what is the point of VW using the Skoda ST next year? Is it's dimensions very similar to the Polo? Will we see the Polo doing some rounds next year as Mini has been this year?
19th July 2011, 08:20
Mirek

These cars are technically very similar both in stock and rally variants. Of course Polo will go further with the development but it's based on Fabia as far as I know. Also VW still hasn't introduced Polo-R stock car with optimized bodyshell for use in WRC.
19th July 2011, 09:07
MJW

My info is that 2012 will be a few events with the Skoda, whilst Polo tests in private.
19th July 2011, 09:52
RS

Here is the VW Fabia, running "Wings for Life" livery which I believe is a Red Bull supported charity?

http://www.volkswagen-motorsport.com...18-1658_ml.jpg

http://www.volkswagen-motorsport.com...18-1660_ml.jpg
19th July 2011, 10:53
pantealex

Mikkelsen's NesteOil car in background!
Maybe different bonnet livery in NORF

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