[WRC] News & rumours (part II)

Probably "Turismo the portugal" or whatever gets what they pay for.... Small amount of money , small sticker... big amount of money... big sticker.

Myselt i think this Pordrive who wants Markus to go down there to whoop Petters ass....

The smaller the stickers, often people look more carefully what i says...Told to me by a guy who decorated our car....

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Originally Posted by tmx

New Zealand Rally will not be held this year and is set to return early next year.

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Rally NZ was never part of the WRC for 2009.
What you may have heard was that the organisers were planing an event this year using the name Rally NZ. It was for local entrants (and any internationals wanting to enter), just to keep the tradition of the event alive for this non-championship year.

The organisers have decided not to go ahead with the event, as it would put even more financial pressure on those already doing the national championship.

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Originally Posted by Motorsportfun

Hi, I work in that magazine. It explains that Renault is considering to develop his S2000 car from the Sandero, in place of the (ugly!) Logan, which was tested by Simon Jean-Joseph some years ago in various test sessions. :)

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Is there an online version of this magazine ?

And is there some truth in this project, or is it a dream from the Dacia team ?
Last time with the Logan, they were told by Renault that doing rally in a car in this price segment would be sending the wrong signals. Hopefully Renault see the benefit this time. They do F1 and Dacia could do Rally !

I don´t care about collors and the livery, I´l hope it is a good car for a top driver. In blue it was almost always a sh!t car. :dozey:

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Originally Posted by Brother John

I don´t care about collors and the livery, I´l hope it is a good car for a top driver. In blue it was almost always a sh!t car. :dozey:

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That´s my man! I remember that couple of years ago my favorite livery in Estonian championship was one white Subaru without any advertising stickers. :-)

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Originally Posted by Sulland

Is there an online version of this magazine ?

And is there some truth in this project, or is it a dream from the Dacia team ?
Last time with the Logan, they were told by Renault that doing rally in a car in this price segment would be sending the wrong signals. Hopefully Renault see the benefit this time. They do F1 and Dacia could do Rally !

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There is a preview of the print edition of the magazine (here you have our magazines previews http://www.sportautomoto.it/ ), but it was closed as a consequence of the world economic downturn IMO. :( Anyway, now there is SportAuto "alive".


For what concern the project, I know there were some discussions about it, but this economic dt probably slowed down all the things. If you think, Renault cut the budget also for F.1 and ING is pulling out from the end of this year... is a difficult situation for all the Renault group (well, for all the European manufacturers! :p :) .

As Raikkonen says: "Wait and see" :p :

Does anybody know what is all about?
http://www.rallye-magazin.de/r/wm/d/...ren/index.html

They say Petter wants mechanical differentials because Xsara is faster with them but that there are no mechanical diffs prepared for Xsara but for C4 only...

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Originally Posted by 'Mirek Fric [Cze

]They say Petter wants mechanical differentials because Xsara is faster with them but that there are no mechanical diffs prepared for Xsara but for C4 only...

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In an interview Petter himself said that Loeb told him the mechanical diff is faster. Sounds about right, they would be reluctant to supply them to him anyway.