2015 News and Results

He said he and his sponsors could get more attention in ERC, and I think he´s right. In Austria everything is focused on Baumschlager. Austrian media reporting about Jänner Rallye this days all write about Baumschlager, Baumschlager, Baumschlager again - a little bit about Kajto (they finally can´t igore him after this rally) - and hardly anything about the other drivers. But we´ll have to see how long this campaign will last. 2013 Neubauer finally gave his ERC campaing up rather early after a series of retirements, as I remember.

Tarabus skips Latvia but will be back in Ireland :)

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Originally Posted by Mirek

Tarabus skips Latvia but will be back in Ireland :)

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Brilliant it will be great to see him here, any news if the R5 will be ready for the Circuit, start of April probably a bit early!

All I can say is that I hope the R5 is ready for Ireland but we have to wait and see...

It also depends on production of the Fabia. 25 000 cars have to be produced before the homologation is valid.

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Originally Posted by tommeke_B

It also depends on production of the Fabia. 25 000 cars have to be produced before the homologation is valid.

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That's no problem at all. Fabia production started several months a go. Of course it didn't start on full steam but 25000 is a little more than one month of normal production.

I'd say they'll just want everything right, Peugeot rushed their car and payed for it, can't wait for it to come though

It seems R5 is a very difficult category to get right (maybe even harder than WRC?).

Peugeot/Citroen homologation was delayed and the car is still unreliable, the Ford has not been without problems and Skoda started testing a variation of their car 18 months ago minimum and it is still not ready.

Richard Rodgers is finishing as PR of European Rally Championship (he was also in IRC). Together with other team we have prepared big thanks for his work...

http://www.e-pluto.cz/erc-richard.jpg

As many as 38 crews have already been registered in the ERC. This must be some kind of a record.
The new entries in the top category are Giacomo Costenaro (Peugeot 207 S2000 from Delta Rally) and Jarosław Koltun. Full list here: http://www.fiaerc.com/uploads/files/...rs_updated.pdf