Rally2 (ex-R5) News

Is engine still made by Oreca? I thought they fell out and the engine was now in house?

Photos from the interior?

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Originally Posted by RS

Is engine still made by Oreca? I thought they fell out and the engine was now in house?

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I think that the engine was developed in cooperation of Škoda Motoring center and Oreca but I don't know that for sure.

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Originally Posted by Mirek

I think that the engine was developed in cooperation of Škoda Motoring center and Oreca but I don't know that for sure.

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I only know for sure some part of development was made by Oreca, but don't know if it was only small help for Skoda or complete engine development.

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Originally Posted by Mirek

About transmission last thing I heard was X-Trac but they tried also Ricardo and I'm not sure about the final decision. Dampers are Sachs as Dimviii pointed out. They started with Reiger but later switched to Sachs. I think they run Barum on Reigers. Brakes are Brembo as somebody already wrote. ECU I have no idea.

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why run Barum on Reiger? Is that based on a better past experience on that bumpy surface ?

They started with Reiger because Reiger supplied dampers for the S2000. Only later they switched to Sachs. I think the change happened only after Barum.

Reiger were always awesome on bumpy, jumpy tarmac (think Ireland too).

I presume they must have some disadvantage on other surfaces though if Skoda don't use them for the R5?

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Originally Posted by RS

Reiger were always awesome on bumpy, jumpy tarmac (think Ireland too).

I presume they must have some disadvantage on other surfaces though if Skoda don't use them for the R5?

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no they dont have disadvantage,is just easier to rebuild/have spares parts for 1 make of shocks,easier to co operate with one company when changes are nessesary etc.
probably they prefered sachs like the mother vw as a German product.Not a bad decision as we saw from polo at all surfaces.

I don't think that Reiger is that much better for bumpy stages. Cars like Fiesta WRC/S2000/R5 and Fabia S2000 were part of a revolution in terms of suspension geometry, allowing the spring travel to be extremely big. I think it's more coincidence that those cars were having Reiger suspension. In R2-class for example Fabia R2 runs on Reiger too, and when it comes to bumpy surfaces it's probably the worst of the class... ;) VW Polo WRC runs on Sachs too. It's likely Skoda can take advantage of the dampers and knowledge developed by VW/Sachs in WRC. And in WRC in the suspension-part nothing beats the Polo, it really "eats" the rough sections and bumps where others (especially DS3) are losing some time.

Somebody was interested in interior photos. Here they are: http://www.auto.cz/jizdni-dojmy-ze-s...12/foto?foto=0

If I see right, the electronics is Magnetti Marelli.

http://img.auto.cz/news/img/gallerie...fbf4dc1c46.jpg