VW News 2012 & WRC 2013

VW prepares Monte 2013
Volkswagen Motorsport prépare le Rallye Wrc Monte-Carlo 2013 !

New number plates on the car testing for Montecarlo, WOB VW 357. They have built seven chassis already.

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why you said 7 chassis? which are the other 6?

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Originally Posted by dimviii

why you said 7 chassis? which are the other 6?

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Ask Jari-Matti and Seb... :D

Sébastien Ogier: - Interesting article for those who believe VW will win everything from the start... :)

Yep, if we think about their drivers they will need more than seven rally cars :D ...

The first Polo WRC was named as chassis #0, its number plate is WOB VW 351. Then we've seen the series since 352 (testing in Greece) until 356 (testing in Mexico). Sometimes the number plates of a chassis are changed, but it makes no sense in this short period of time before starting competition. Therefore, I believe they have tested with seven different chassis, although not all of them were the finished version of the car.

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Originally Posted by Kielder

Yep, if we think about their drivers they will need more than seven rally cars :D ...

The first Polo WRC was named as chassis #0, its number plate is WOB VW 351. Then we've seen the series since 352 (testing in Greece) until 356 (testing in Mexico). Sometimes the number plates of a chassis are changed, but it makes no sense in this short period of time before starting competition. Therefore, I believe they have tested with seven different chassis, although not all of them were the finished version of the car.

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cant believe that till now they have tested with 7(!!!!!!) different chassis.Ok they have a good budget,but there is no need for so many chassis just at tests.

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Originally Posted by tommeke_B

Ask Jari-Matti and Seb... :D

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lol

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Originally Posted by tommeke_B

Ask Jari-Matti and Seb... :D

Sébastien Ogier: - Interesting article for those who believe VW will win everything from the start... :)

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There is no feedback from Latvala yet, may we won't here anything from him until Monte. Ogier just says they don't know where they are and the conditions will be great leveller. There is no surprise for the latter, this year he was 4th with the S2000 Fabia because of the conditions, before crash of course. Lets hope for proper Monte conditions then :D

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Originally Posted by Kielder

Yep, if we think about their drivers they will need more than seven rally cars :D ...The first Polo WRC was named as chassis #0, its number plate is WOB VW 351. Then we've seen the series since 352 (testing in Greece) until 356 (testing in Mexico). Sometimes the number plates of a chassis are changed, but it makes no sense in this short period of time before starting competition. Therefore, I believe they have tested with seven different chassis, although not all of them were the finished version of the car.

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Are You sure that number of different plates = number of different cars? For example here car makers have number plates dedicated for testing purposes which are not registered to any particular car and can play with them like they want (and they do). That is a reason why it's impossible to trace for example Fabia with plate F-5435 or F-5436 because it was never one car.

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Originally Posted by tommeke_B

Ask Jari-Matti and Seb... :D

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Mexico crash wasn't that bad, just a scratch :p I don't know for any binned Polos from Ogier though this year :p