Me too .
But I think also that an Italian ERC round could be important to revive the interest of Italian drivers and fans towards the European Rally Championship .
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Me too .
But I think also that an Italian ERC round could be important to revive the interest of Italian drivers and fans towards the European Rally Championship .
Nikolay Gryazin plans to do full ERC in the Fabia R5 next year.
Not anything at all if you´re loaded with funded money.
As far as I know, actually is planned only this one start. Starts with Fabia R5 were previously planned for Vassily, but after accident before Estonia plans changed. Actually nothing sure regarding next season.
And the new official Opel Adam driver for ERC 2016 will be 25-year old German Julius Tannert. Good luck to him, but it will be hard as hell to be better than Bergkvist :)
http://www.autoklub.pl/news/foto/201...026_64355h.jpg
As already supposed by some Breen maybe ends his ERC campaign with Peugeot Rally Academy:
"It's a huge win for me. The team really took a big risk to take this chance on me. I have had a wonderful couple of years. The year has been good speed wise, especially on the specialized rallies. Our speed has never been in question, but our season should have been better."
Quite a graceful statement from Breen, even though he wasn't perfect either.
I hope Peugeot Rally Academy will continue in ERC next year. Who won that 208 cup thingy this year and do they get an ERC drive next year?
José António "Cohete" Suarez! I think he had a go in a 208 T16 in Rally Catalunya
Eurosport comentator confirmed first round of 2016 will be Liepaja in February.
Correct, you could see that Kel-tech sponsorship was only visible on his WRC2 cars. (Spain below)
http://www.craigbreen.com/images/new...ainpreview.jpg
That would be great.
WRC2 was paid from his own/dad's pockets. ERC wasn't but he got kinda lucky I believe because Abbring was their first choice but he refused.
Jaromír Tarabus + Fabia R5 + Kresta Racing in ERC 2016 officially confirmed :)
There is no calendar yet :) Anyway from the press release it's clear they want to do more than number of events counted to the championship acc. to the rules. The rules are also not yet specified. I would personally expect them to do around 8 events, maybe more.
Draft version of calendar should be released today...
About the new calendar the autosport.pt talks about the return of Rally Islas Canarias (Spain) and RAJD RZESZOWSKI (Poland) replacing Janner and Valais and said that there should be no more major changes being the 10 rallies.
And what is wrong with Valais? No money? I think it is one of TOP 3 events in ERC calendar. I think ERC needs at least one event on tarmac in mountains (You know for example San Remo, Antibes, Valais etc.) IMHO it doesn´t make sense to have very similar events Barum and Rzeszowski and second couple is Cyprus and Acropolis. I know there are differences but generally it is same type of surface. The variety of places and surfaces in Europe is much more bigger.
Problem of Valais is in communication between organisers and Eurosport and FIA. And of course it is also about money... On the other hand, organisers wants go to WRC :)
I agree. Valais is an excellent rally and was surprised by the news.
Cherain with a Fiesta R5 will compete ERC in 2016 : http://www.dhnet.be/sports/moteurs/l...aed156f6#d053b
:)
I'm sorry but itsn't he just saying he's working on a plan to do ERC? No confirmation at all.
Besides it looks to me like it's more about putting pressure on the Belgian federation to cut costs.
He's not bad, competed in the 208 cup in 2013 against Lefebvre and Abbring and got a 2nd place at Limousin. But no, he's not a Lefebvre-level driver.
ERC calendar is available here: http://www.autosport.cz/clanek.php?cl=17704
The provisional FIA European Rally Championship calendar for 2016 is as follows:
5-7 February Rally Liepāja (Latvia, gravel/ice/snow) (J)
11-13 March Rally Islas Canarias (asphalt)
7-9 April Circuit of Ireland Rally (Northern Ireland, asphalt) (J)
6-8 May SEAJETS Acropolis Rally (Greece, gravel) **
2-4 June SATA Rallye Açores (Portugal, gravel) (J)
23-25 June Kenotek by CID LINES Ypres Rally (Belgium, asphalt) (J)
15-17 July auto24 Rally Estonia (gravel) * (J)
5-7 August Rajd Rzeszowski (Poland, asphalt)
26-28 August Barum Czech Rally Zlín (Czech Republic, asphalt) (J)
24-25 September Cyprus Rally (gravel/asphalt)
Reserve event
20-22 October Rallye International du Valais (Switzerland, asphalt)
(J) Indicates FIA ERC Junior Championship round
*Subject to signing of ERC Promoter agreement
**Subject to signing the ERC Promoter agreement and sporting power delegation to the local federation
I expected rally Liepaja to get an earlier date now, which happened.