Grönholm to the clouds

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Originally Posted by Micke_VOC

Were have you read that ?

I think they will use modified rallycross car...

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I'm an editor of ERC24, but mainly working for the RX history part of the webside. All our info was given by Andréas E. himself to my friend/counterpart Tim W. of ERC24. With a modified RX car one don't need to go to the PPIHC for braking the course record these days. See the current 'Open Category' record, done in 2000 by Per Eklund with a Saab 9-3 Viggen that was pretty much further developed than his Saab 9-3 ERC of the same year. Nearly one and a half minutes slower than that current 'Unlimited Category' record done by "Monster" Tajima in 2007… To brake the 10 mins barrier one needs to have a prototype thing built for nothing else but Pikes Peak.

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Originally Posted by rx-guru

I'm an editor of ERC24, but mainly working for the RX history part of the webside. All our info was given by Andréas E. himself to my friend/counterpart Tim W. of ERC24. With a modified RX car one don't need to go to the PPIHC for braking the course record these days. See the current 'Open Category' record, done in 2000 by Per Eklund with a Saab 9-3 Viggen that was pretty much further developed than his Saab 9-3 ERC of the same year. Nearly one and a half minutes slower than that current 'Unlimited Category' record done by "Monster" Tajima in 2007… To brake the 10 mins barrier one needs to have a prototype thing built for nothing else but Pikes Peak.

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Ok, they have built many fiesta´s now .. so to new build fiestas for pikes peak.

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Originally Posted by Micke_VOC

Ok, they have built many fiesta´s now .. so to new build fiestas for pikes peak.

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2008:
1 RX Fiesta Mk6 for Hedström (2007 Eriksson car)
1 RX Fiesta Mk6 for Eriksson
1 RX Fiesta Mk6 for Grönholm
1 RX Fiesta Mk6 for H. Solberg

2009:
1 RX Fiesta Mk7 for Eriksson
1 RX Fiesta Mk7 for TBA
1 PP Fiesta Mk7 for Eriksson
1 PP Fiesta Mk7 for Grönholm

Regards to the hometown of Per, Tommy and Kenny!
Have been to Arvika (Westombanan; as well as to Walfridsson property at Ängen/Gräsmark) myself a couple of times. ;)

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Originally Posted by rx-guru

2008:
1 RX Fiesta Mk6 for Hedström (2007 Eriksson car)
1 RX Fiesta Mk6 for Eriksson
1 RX Fiesta Mk6 for Grönholm
1 RX Fiesta Mk6 for H. Solberg

2009:
1 RX Fiesta Mk7 for Eriksson
1 RX Fiesta Mk7 for TBA
1 PP Fiesta Mk7 for Eriksson
1 PP Fiesta Mk7 for Grönholm

Regards to the hometown of Per, Tommy and Kenny!
Have been to Arvika (Westombanan; as well as to Walfridsson property at Ängen/Gräsmark) myself a couple of times. ;)

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Arvika is a really motorsport town =)

"Renny" to the clouds as well:

http://www.motorsport-aktuell.com/ra...ford-9272.html

One more (hidden) pic to be found by mouse-click on the right.

And for those who never heard about "Renny" before:

A marvellous young Rennison in those halcyon GpB days of RX: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuA7BnoOH3Q

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Originally Posted by rx-guru

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuA7BnoOH3Q

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Unbelievable! Thanx for posting!

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Originally Posted by Micke_VOC

Were have you read that ?

I think they will use modified rallycross car...

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http://www.svartamasken.com/visa_galleri.asp?id=564

Note especially picture no 6. I guess it is showing the 5-door PPIHC bodyshell for Marcus.

Pics 15, 16 and 18 showing 3-door PPIHC version that will be used by Andréas, AFAIK.

http://www.ppihc.com/content.aspx?tabid=2&contentid=252

Wonder if "Monster" Tajima will not take part this year and if Grönholm and Eriksson will take passengers up to the Summit…

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Originally Posted by rx-guru

http://www.ppihc.com/content.aspx?tabid=2&contentid=252

Wonder if "Monster" Tajima will not take part this year and if Grönholm and Eriksson will take passengers up to the Summit…

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Supposedly Monster filed his entry paperwork last week (June 2).

I don't know about the co-drivers.

Maybe they want the option to run them, utilize them for practice and see how the times and driver comfort level is? I know JEMBA has the virtual co-driver set up available for PPIHC (Stig used it a couple of years ago if memory serves).

Pikes Peak isn't a terribly taxing route to learn now that they have added some guard rails but without a lot of pseudo practice it very well could be that both drivers feel that with a co-driver they can run better lines as they won't have to remember the course in as much detail...