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Originally Posted by Mirek

Hari, the car has German plate, do You know why?

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Maybe it was easier to keep it German because of papers and documents if it was a former "VW" Skoda?

That could be the case, thanks.

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Originally Posted by CWJ

Maybe it was easier to keep it German because of papers and documents if it was a former "VW" Skoda?

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I was wondering for a long time who bought the VW-Skodas, so now it is a little bit more clear...at least one car. There were rumours that VW-skodas with gravel kit are even better than Skoda motorsport gravel fabias. Anyway it is very good tool, so good luck for Henk Lategan.

So, who bought them? Do you think this is Lategan's car or does he rent it?

Everything seems that it is BRR (Raimund Baumschlager) car.

Rumours are that Henk will do 3 overseas events this year, i assume to get experience in writing his own notes which we do not do in SA. I am not sure if all will be for the BRR team, however Raimund Baumschlager is quite involved with the VW team in SA from what i am told, helping to develop our Polo S2000's which are very similar to the skoda.

Henk is quite inexperienced, however his inclusion in the VWSA works team and results thus far have been very good considering. Learning to write his own notes may slow him a bit on this event so will be interesting to see how he performs.

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Originally Posted by hari

Lategan testing yesterday...

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I just wanted to say that this is an amazing photo! Congratulations Hari! :up:

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Originally Posted by Grant_RSA

Rumours are that Henk will do 3 overseas events this year, i assume to get experience in writing his own notes which we do not do in SA. I am not sure if all will be for the BRR team, however Raimund Baumschlager is quite involved with the VW team in SA from what i am told, helping to develop our Polo S2000's which are very similar to the skoda.

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That sounds logical. Baumschlager was involved in Fabia S2000 development since the very beginning, his current chief-engineer Walter Illmer is former car engineer of Jan Kopecký and there are another people connected to Škoda Motorsport in his team, like Josef Lank.

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Originally Posted by tolis

So, who bought them? Do you think this is Lategan's car or does he rent it?

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BRR bought all the cars of VW Motorsport.
But i think the car of Lategan Test is another one - ex Mikkelsen IRC Car. But with the VW ones they have six completely white ones, so maybe it is even another one ;-)
Hopefully we will see some of them soon on the stages. In Austria or somewhere else...

The dust on the test-stage revealed some history of the car: - Its the ex IRC Car of Mikkelsen.

http://www.ir7.at/lategan1.jpg