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I'm not sure, but wasn't his first rally in Poland faultless technically? He was as high as 2nd until he spent some time on the roadside.
But you have right Mirek Fric [Cze], the customer has the right to make some driver mistakes, but the team cannot afford constant problems with the car.
Yes, it was technical problem with gearbox. But Czopik damaged it, when he was trying to get back to the road from ditch :) And on one of first stages he had a puncture.Quote:
Originally Posted by teufel
Sorry, but I didn't want to flame anyone...
What I was trying to say:
Some say that rene georges cars, the polos, are not good and not reliable. They base themselves on results of Czopic. I say, look at other drivers that also drive the Polo and look at their results.
I also said that I am disapointed in the result of Czopik in Ypres. I really tought he was able to catch top 5, but he was very far from that. A part from being inexperienced....
I also say, that the bad luck is not only caused by Rene Georges team. Ok, rene georges also made mistakes (also unfortunate) because of having the wrong parts etc, but Czopik also made a lot of mistakes this season.
And you are absolutely right. Czopik is customer and if he is not happy, he has the right to change. I hope he will make a good result in his Punto.
But I don't like when people are saying that the Polo is slow, and unreliable. It has proven it can win and it can be reliable. Most S2000's have reliability problems. From what I seen in Ypres, the Polo is the fastest car of the S2000. There were a lot of experienced drivers in Ypres in a good S2000, but no one could match the speed of Loix, until he got bad luck. Don't forget, Rene Georges is a privat team and they do it all by themselves.
Hope we're straight. ;)
Yes, Polo is very fat, Hevia and Loix shows it in national championships. But problem is a number of racing Polos. We can see lot of Pugs and Fiats with good and not so good drivers, some of them has problems, some of them are without problems. But there are only two Polos together and I think that is main problem of this car - everybody, who can buy or rent S2000 now is asking for 207 or Punto, because they dont believe Polo. And that should be the largest mistake of Rene Georges - promotion. I think very good for him should be starts with good driver like Loix in IRC or ERC, where he can shows possibility of this car...Quote:
Originally Posted by HaCo
HaCo: Ok, let's stop that, but don't say Polo is fastest when there is a great local driver behind the wheel. Especialy on such stages. Drivers like Rossetti, Navarra or Vuilloz were there for the first time. Maybe Polo is fastest but Loix's performance on his home battlefield can't prove that ;)
Well Hevia is not doing bad against Fuster's Punto too ;-) And also Czopik himself said after trying Nocentini's Punto in Bulgaria, that the Polo was more powerful...
I like that "great local driver"... ;)
Yes this is the true problem of this subject for me. Renes Georges has not enough resources to develop the Polo like Peugeot and Fiat are doing with their cars. what kind of support Renes Georges has from VW factory? maybe nothing!!!. The polo has a good potential in my opinion, and Loix has showed that in Ypres, but without money and really specialized knowledge everything is more difficult and we can not wait miracles. Look what it happened with RED and their Toyotas, where they are?? only one if I'm not wrong in British championship. why....?Quote:
Originally Posted by HaCo
Madeira, RED has another problem. The corolla is old!!!
Hope the Aurius will come to Europe next year.
This week-end will be exciting !!! :)
Rally of Russia(IRC), Subaru Rally(Poland) and Ronde di Camuna(Italy)will be the three rallies of this week-end with S2000s cars competing... ;)