Rally2 (ex-R5) News

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Originally Posted by Mirek

Reminds me Fabia WRC :)

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Exactly my thought! Especially from this angle
http://www.4troxoi.gr/files/Image/00...C/ALBA7831.JPG

http://www.4troxoi.gr/default.php?pn...7&art_id=16662

The car may have changed but the PR bullshit hasn't:

"It's too early to say whether the car will be any good, these are the first kilometres"

Kopecky: "We don't know what we are doing next year" e.t.c.

Although the engineer expressed concerns that the rules don't have a good balance between cost and maintenance. Ie. They can make the car cheaply but then it wears out quicker.

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Originally Posted by RS

Although the engineer expressed concerns that the rules don't have a good balance between cost and maintenance. Ie. They can make the car cheaply but then it wears out quicker.

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That's exactly what br21 wrote on this forum some time a go ;)

How strict is the cost price thing anyway?

I mean, wasn't there supposed to be a cap on S2000 too?

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Originally Posted by Mirek

Were You there Dimitris?

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no it was impossible to be there.

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Originally Posted by dimviii

no it was impossible to be there.

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Aha, pity.

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Originally Posted by RS

How strict is the cost price thing anyway?

I mean, wasn't there supposed to be a cap on S2000 too?

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Much more strict. The main thing is a big list of particular components where each one of them has it's price limit. Several may be over the limit but others must be cheaper so that the total sum doesn't get over.

It's not only matter of pure price limit for complete car or parts. It's the fact that you need to change some parts way more often than in WRC or S2000. When buying, those parts are cheaper comparing to S2000 ones for example, but you need to but 3 of those for i.e. 1000km and in S2000 you needed 1 for 1000km. Also many components in WRC/S2000 were design to be rebuildable, in R5 they are not, as their origin is in stock parts...
But honestly I have to say that when you get some knowledge about the car, way of running it, etc it's in fact better, more reliable than I was thinking at the beginning... of course it's about Fiesta, not 208...

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Originally Posted by br21

It's not only matter of pure price limit for complete car or parts. It's the fact that you need to change some parts way more often than in WRC or S2000. When buying, those parts are cheaper comparing to S2000 ones for example, but you need to but 3 of those for i.e. 1000km and in S2000 you needed 1 for 1000km. Also many components in WRC/S2000 were design to be rebuildable, in R5 they are not, as their origin is in stock parts...
But honestly I have to say that when you get some knowledge about the car, way of running it, etc it's in fact better, more reliable than I was thinking at the beginning... of course it's about Fiesta, not 208...

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Yes, of course You are right and I even mentioned Your experience in post 2043 ( ;) ) but the discussion regarding the limits was from a different point of view - that it's very difficult for the manufacturer to get in the limits.

For comparison:
http://www.ianhardy.net/gallery/main..._2005_0344.jpg

I think that stripes on new car are more aggressive :)