Probably Juho Hänninen?
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Probably Juho Hänninen?
Black/dark blue camoflages all the bumps. Trick used by many females....
White or maybe silver is a good mule color.
But the car looks like it is a good basis, and the 3 cyl GR engine, sounds a bit like the Fiesta Rally3. Odd number of cylinders always sound a bit strange. Apart from Volvo and Audi 5 cyl engines!
Yaris Rally1 is not a beauty, either.Quote:
Originally Posted by HKSjbg
i like this rally2 way more than the rally1 actually! : )Quote:
Originally Posted by Jarek Z
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-LAmxkMaWM
gravel test video od the yaris rally2
Just glad the car has surfaced after all the talk and as said above seeing it in factory test livery gives hope it will see the light of day on a stage after all!
Bad Boys in Japan ;)
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid...43573237568969
Having the boss like it is a good sign...
https://www.rallye-magazin.de/filead...s-Rally2-2.jpg
I find the Rally2 quite ugly, which is surprising considering how good the roadcar, Rally1 (and the AP4 version) look. Maybe it is the black paintjob.
Seems very similar to Rally1&road to me.Quote:
Originally Posted by becher
We need to see in tarmac spec and another colour
The another colour would be TGR corporate liveryQuote:
Originally Posted by manthey
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Yeah, well maybe its just the colour for me.Quote:
Originally Posted by manthey
Talking about this, one important point for Toyota is to avoid the mistake made by VW of developing the Rally2 car to close from the Rally1 one.Quote:
Originally Posted by manthey
VW car is a still a good one but its optimized margin is too small to address the Rally2 market where you’ve both drivers close from Rally1 level and amateur drivers.
With also the fires at the beginning that made a bad PR, it’s one of the reason of VW relative failure in Rally2 (and not the level of the car itself)
Yes good point, the same with I20N. The bulk of the performance in a tight range.Quote:
Originally Posted by Danny0405
Polo (and C3) experienced a good development and was chosen by PRO driver category (on tarmac)
A Polo won the Norwegian championship this year (Larsen/Eriksen) against drivers and cars like Fabia (Brynhildsen, Grøndal and Aasen) and Polo (Veiby)Quote:
Originally Posted by manthey
Grøndal did 1/2 season in a Fiesta mk2, but that didn't worked and swapped to Fabia.
I really hope M-sport brings out a new, good Rally2 car soon, can they survive without?
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Failure? Where did they fail? The car was great apart from the fire problems at the beginning. It's just that they never had a factory supported WRC2 team so it never challenged for titles.Quote:
Originally Posted by Danny0405
I’m talking about the commercial part, not the sport part because as I said, it is still a good car.Quote:
Originally Posted by AnttiL
But the optimized margin is too low compared with the Skoda to address to amateur drivers whereas this car was supposed to be the next big thing (and in the end, it never overtook the old Fabia evo).
And I talked about a relative failure because clearly, in terms of sales, they didn’t do really much better than Hyundai, Citroen and Ford and were dominated by Skoda that they were supposed to subtitute (and in the end, it is Skoda which is following his development with the new RS).
how many years polo was for sale vs fabia?Quote:
Originally Posted by Danny0405
Many still prefers the Fabia R5 over the Evo. It is easier to set up, and has a wider sweetspot.
The Fiesta Rally2 is hard to get a good setup for loose surfaces, it still gets smashed by the R5 with similar quality drivers.
A few get the new Fiesta to work for them, PG Andersson is one of them.
The Polo have been superb for good drivers that have tested enough, and know how to set it up for their taste.
Many still prefer the Polo over the Fabia Evo.
Lets see if Skoda managed to surpass the Polo with the Fabia RS.
Interesting, I read about Polo’s quality as you reportedQuote:
Originally Posted by Sulland
And the collapsing suspension. But speed wise there was never a problem with this car.Quote:
Originally Posted by AnttiL
I would point out though that Kajto challenged for this year’s WRC2 title being outside of a factory supported team.
Katjo "challenged" by avoiding competition though.
According to their announcement today the Fiesta is to soldier on for the foreseeable future, with M-Sport stockpiling Fiesta shells and parts as the road car stops production in 2023.Quote:
Originally Posted by skarderud
they also said development is coming through 23 to all lower tier cars (rally2/3/4)Quote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
Mikkelsen was testing the Fabia RS in Croatia today...
https://instagram.com/stories/skodam...d=MDJmNzVkMjY=
M-Sport sold one Fiesta Rally2 to Uganda (Yasin Nasser).
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FhsqGjRW...pg&name=medium
Testing vid is here:Quote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
https://youtu.be/mE-KyyPSSXI
Did you see that? Istanbul Rally last week - 14 Ford Fiestas in top 20!
https://www.ewrc-results.com/final/8...-rallisi-2022/
Very slippery and smoking exhaustQuote:
Originally Posted by mknight
and Lindholm Thursday and/or FridayQuote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
And Pajari apparantely. I guess those three will be the Skoda backed drivers in Toksport next year.Quote:
Originally Posted by pantealex
Emil Lindholm Fabia RS walkaround:
https://youtu.be/GtIkI6Xofl8
https://www.skoda-motorsport.com/en/...in-60-seconds/
Did you see the comments section? Chris Ingram likes it already! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
Why skoda never produced a Fabia Rally road version like Yaris GR...Quote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
Well I wonder how many we will see early next year.
Toksport would want at least 4 basically immediately. Kopecky also, but Czech championship starts later.
Regarding speed I don't doubt it will be fast on Finland, Sweden, Estonia type of roads and likely also on Catalunya type of roads
But especially at start I am not so sure it will be that great on Croatia/CZ roads or even slippery rallies.
After all the current Fabia has been constantly developed for ages. It also doesn't seem possible to do massive improvements using Rally2 rules (original Fabia R5 is for example not far behind latest EVO or new i20, Polo which hasn't been developed for 3? years is still up there, etc.).
You can buy Skoda Fabia Monte Carlo ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by manthey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeNfGTyKzdw
Judging from the latest rainy video test ?Quote:
Originally Posted by mknight
I assume there will be developments on suspensions based on the previous (actual) Fabia
Judging by the car having much longer wheelbase (think it now is the Rally2 with the longest wheelbase of them all.
So naturally it should be slower to react than the current one.