M-Sport Fiesta S2000

So 3 sold in a couple of weeks, not bad.

If they do well in monte, the number will go up...

I was hoping for a Renault Gordini S2000, but seems they will only do R3. :(

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Originally Posted by noel157

All too true. I've never really paid much attention to the boy's incar before but he doesn't seem to commit to the notes. Hacking and sawing at the wheel and blipping the throttle until he sees the end of the corner before fully putting the foot down. No way to set decent times.

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Thats how his dad used to drive as well - the ultimate throtle blipper. When you listened to Ari and Pentti in the Rothmans Escorts you could hear the engine howl for miles before they got to you. With Malcolm it was barp barping along the stage, same in the 6R4 compared to Tony Pond. I blamed it on not recovering from the accident on the Scottish when he broke his ankles, dont think the confidence ever came back, - maybe the same with Matt after Rally Wales and the broke leg. These 2 are British Championship material not World stars, father and son, on the other hand Malcolm has done fantastic things with MSport and the business side of things.

http://www.rally-news.fr/gallery/show/7268

None of that foreign muck when the M Sport boys are testing in France HP Sauce it is!

Great looking car!

Couple more vids of Hirvonen's tests:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vFxXyIqghw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3xHDF3Ly9U

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Originally Posted by RS

Couple more vids of Hirvonen's tests:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vFxXyIqghw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3xHDF3Ly9U

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Very, very nice! Who said that S2000 cars cannot be spectacular?

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Originally Posted by cali

Very, very nice! Who said that S2000 cars cannot be spectacular?

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I would rather watch this than a Focus WRC...

It is all about the drivers I think. You put a truly great driver in an S2000 pushing maximum attack and you get nice results. I dont think it will be too many rallies before we are used to this new formula in the WRC.

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Originally Posted by RS

I would rather watch this than a Focus WRC...

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During the video I came up with the same idea. Even if You can clearly see, that this car is slower than WRC, it still produces more excitement.

Simmi is also right - put a top driver into S2000 and voila! :p

I totally agree. Imagine also JML, Petter, PJ, Gigi, Atkinson and all the others on these evil little toys, great great... they are constantly improving on performance too so it will be even better as time passes by ...

Some of us said this a while ago, and to get the 1600T into action in 2013. Would have been better than the current one.