Ford Fiesta RS WRC

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Originally Posted by Mirek

1.6T won't be allowed in any FIA championship except WRC in 2011.

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Then if you order a SP Mini you'll have to wait till 2012 to rally it?
http://www.motoringfile.com/wp-conte...es-package.pdf

And what about the Fabia, if Skoda remains at the IRC they won´t be abble to homologate the 1.6T car next season?

Even knowing there's little time to produce new cars, it´s strange that new 2011 regs about S2000 1.6T cars won´t be aplicated, meaning that we'll see no new cars at IRC (and SWRC) during 2011 (no 1.6T and homologation of NA S2000 only permited till the end of 2010).

i had chance to be on pr event where Ott Tänak's Fiesta S2000 was unveiled for local sponsors. Some rumors which circulated there: M.Märtin had some time ago tested Fiesta S2000 and pointed out that rear shocks were not good enough, causing car to be unstable on high speed bends. When Ott went off and got stuck in similar situation in Finland recently, Märtin took phone call to M-Sport to speed them up in delivering new shocks. Unfortunately those did not arrive by last week, so Märtin tested car on wednesday and decided to set limiter on top speed for weekends Saaremaa Rally. Thus on faster stages (as said in radio interview) Ott was "picking his nose" as car had too low top speed of 169 kmh...

This info might seem bit irrelevant in wrc context, but as we know lot of experiences learned on S2000 wil be taken over for wrc, so i thought it might be interesting for at least some of you :D

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Originally Posted by Rally Power

Then if you order a SP Mini you'll have to wait till 2012 to rally it?
http://www.motoringfile.com/wp-conte...es-package.pdf

And what about the Fabia, if Skoda remains at the IRC they won´t be abble to homologate the 1.6T car next season?

Even knowing there's little time to produce new cars, it´s strange that new 2011 regs about S2000 1.6T cars won´t be aplicated, meaning that we'll see no new cars at IRC (and SWRC) during 2011 (no 1.6T and homologation of NA S2000 only permited till the end of 2010).

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I think that it actually is good move by FIA. If they allow these cars elsewhere right from start how many of them would start outside WRC till the end of 2011? I'm sure very few and rarely more than one or two per event. Also the price now when there are no second hand cars will be very high for users outside WRC.

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Originally Posted by rubla

i had chance to be on pr event where Ott Tänak's Fiesta S2000 was unveiled for local sponsors. Some rumors which circulated there: M.Märtin had some time ago tested Fiesta S2000 and pointed out that rear shocks were not good enough, causing car to be unstable on high speed bends. When Ott went off and got stuck in similar situation in Finland recently, Märtin took phone call to M-Sport to speed them up in delivering new shocks. Unfortunately those did not arrive by last week, so Märtin tested car on wednesday and decided to set limiter on top speed for weekends Saaremaa Rally. Thus on faster stages (as said in radio interview) Ott was "picking his nose" as car had too low top speed of 169 kmh...

This info might seem bit irrelevant in wrc context, but as we know lot of experiences learned on S2000 wil be taken over for wrc, so i thought it might be interesting for at least some of you :D

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With tarmac short gearbox and tarmac tyres Fiesta has top speed 171 km/h, so it was probably same gearing.

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Originally Posted by Mirek

With tarmac short gearbox and tarmac tyres Fiesta has top speed 171 km/h, so it was probably same gearing.

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I dont know about gearing but as this was gravel rally, then tarmac tires is not the case.

I know it was gravel but that's very small difference for speed. Tarmac and gravel tyres have same diameter, the difference is only in different pressure and more wheel-spin on gravel (thus slightly different dynamic diameter) ;)

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Originally Posted by Mirek

I know it was gravel but that's very small difference for speed. Tarmac and gravel tyres have same diameter, the difference is only in different pressure and more wheel-spin on gravel (thus slightly different dynamic diameter) ;)

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whatever. i found article where Tänak himself also uses wording "speed limiter" - http://www.saartehaal.ee/index.php?c...15&artid=21732
but what was point of my post, is that they have some issues with rear suspension.

ok, no problem

http://wrc.is.free.fr/posts/2010/10/...-la-fiesta-wrc

http://wrc.is.free.fr/images/2010/te...tWRCCatMid.jpg

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