A few time before Rajd Magurski to start(entrylist published 22nd january), no more news about 2007 polish championship ??? :confused:
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A few time before Rajd Magurski to start(entrylist published 22nd january), no more news about 2007 polish championship ??? :confused:
The problem with Magurski Rally is that there is still no snow :(
Some news...
After four-year break Pawel Dytko makes a come back to Polish championship. He found a new sponsor (a petrol trading company) and will compete in all rounds of Polish championship at the wheel of Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX. As usually, he will be co-driven by his cousin Tomasz Dytko. They used to be a top crew in Poland so let's hope they didn't forget how to drive ;)
Pawel Dytko in 2002:
http://www.rallyonline.pl/ft.php?idg=98&pg_[go]=31
You can see the new car here:
http://www.rallyonline.pl/index.php?...;go]=19&s=9257
Thank's Jarek by your reports!
Do you have any news about Solowow plans in Europe?
No news yet. All that is certain is that he will start the season with Arctic Lapland and then Swedish Rally.
David Higgins will contest the British Championship in a Toyota Corolla S2000
From crash.net:
http://www.crash.net/news_view~t~Hig...~id~141956.htm
Would be great to see a Punto and a 207 S2000 aswell but at least it will make a noisy change from all the evo's and Scooby's
Great news about CIR
Luca Cantamessa (who use to have problems with budget..) will run for MRT in 2007 CIR..
His team mate will be Fabio Gianfico.
Both will drive a EVO IX
Source
http://www.racingworld.it/rally/noti...?idtitolo=3719
More news about MRT by Nocentini. They will support J.A.S. Sport in the preparation of Honda Civic Type-R for the new class R3. J.A.S. seems to be more of a racing company and they needed support from rally specialists. MRT is a company that prepares cars for Dimitar Iliev:
http://www.rallyonline.pl/ft.php?idg=1825&pg_[go]=9
They say the new Honda will have 240 HP and will be faster and cheper than S1600 cars!
http://www.autoklub.pl/14117,news.html?
Yes, now you only need Colin and Alister in S2000 as well and British championship will be spectacular again! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by sal
Yesterday was confirmed the news that Fiesta Sporting Trophy will be organized in Bulgaria from 2007. The FST coordinatior in Bulgaria will be Carl Williamson who is Georgi Geradjiev-jr codriver and ex-codriver of Jari-Mati Latvalla. Furthermore there will be unique "rally scholarship" scheme which will support young driver to drive in the championsip like "works drive".
Here is the official press release:
Quote:
Press Release:
Date: 16th January 2007
Released by – Carl Williamson
I can today confirm that M-Sport have signed contracts with myself and BMD, Plovdiv to authorize the formation of a Fiesta SportingTrophy Bulgaria 2007.
Our major sponsor is MotoPfohe, with fantastic support also from Allianz, Ford Ralleysport Turkey, M-Sport and BMD. We are also in negotiations with other sponsors who will be confirmed at a later date.
This is exciting news for Bulgarian rallying as it introduces opportunities that have never before been available in the country.
The Fiesta SportingTrophy is a new Ford Rally One Make Championship. It is designed for both young ambitious drivers and more experienced drivers, co-drivers and teams who want to compete with a package of equal competition on a professional level with low costs. It is possibly the most exciting and challenging way to enter national rallying.
The cars are based on the Ford Fiesta ST. They are modified with competition gearbox, suspension and safety equipment according to FIA Group N regulations. They have 165ps from the 2-litre Duratec ST engine which when combined with the conversion kit from M-Sport, has been designed to provide all of the safety equipment and performance upgrades to enable the car to be competitive and reliable at any event around the world.
The price for a new road car plus a conversion kit will be in the region of 33,000 Euros. The aim is to provide an economical car with an M-Sport commitment to performance and long-term stability.
This championship is unique in Bulgaria because it offers not only equal competition, low costs and professional support from a ‘works’ team, but it also offers a prize structure which is unheard of in Bulgaria.
There will be on-event cash prizes as well as end of season prizes.
All the prizes are to be confirmed at the official launch (to be confirmed – approx 24th January). However, we can confirm today that the top 2 drivers at the end of the year, as well as a wildcard chosen by the organizers, will attend the ‘shoot-out’ at M-Sport’s UK headquarters.
There, you will be competing against the other participating countries for a prize of a lifetime.
After 2 days of psychological, fitness, media and of course driving tests, a winner will be chosen by Malcolm Wilson himself.
The winner will be employed by M-Sport for the following 12 months. This includes free accommodation at the headquarters, salary and test-driving duties on all of Fords rally cars and development cars – right up to WRC level! The lucky winner will also attend ‘every’ round of the World Championship working for the Ford World Rally Team.
This prize is priceless and just the chance to compete for this prize is a fantastic opportunity for Bulgarian Drivers.
Subject to approval from the Bulgarian Federation, the Fiesta SportingTrophy (FST) will consist of 7 rallies, with 6 scores to count to the final classification at the end of the year.
The intention is to provide a parts truck on every rally, to further keep the costs down for the competitor. There will also be hospitality for the competing crews on every rally.
More detailed information will be available at the official launch next week – details will be confirmed on the internet.
Meanwhile, any enquiries can be directed to [email:6jn1nqxd]fst-bg@hotmail.com[/email:6jn1nqxd]
Malcolm Wilson, owner and team manager of M-Sport, had this to say:
"We are delighted to see that plans are now confirmed for the Fiesta SportingTrophy to be established in Bulgaria in 2007 - this will be the tenth country to confirm their programme - a fantastic achievement. The original intention of the FST was to create a format using the excellent dynamic qualities of the Ford Fiesta ST to provide a good platform for drivers to start an association with the Ford brand and M-Sport. It gives us a chance to identify the young drivers coming up through the field and to work with them via the Shoot-Out from an early stage of their careers. The car is designed to be safe, reliable but above all FUN to drive.
There are now over 180 Ford Fiesta ST's competing in 19 countries around the world, we look forward to welcoming Bulgarian drivers to this family and to meeting some of the drivers at our Dovenby Hall HQ at the end of the year.
Good Luck, Malcolm Wilson - M-Sport."
Quote:
Originally Posted by Jarek Z
MRT by Nocentini will support also Miguel Fuster and the punto in spanish championship
From Italy
Finally we have the official confirmation!
Paolo Andreucci has signed by Ralliart Italy.
Short news from Madeira...
Aécio Anjo will run this year with a C2 S1600 ex PH Sport and Vitor Lopes will compete in Madeira with is usual C2 S1600
from lithuania
vilius rozukas will run with suzuki ignis s1600 in jwrc and i hope that we could see him with suzuki in lithuania championship.
evaldas cirba(2004 champion) back to 4wd(last year renault clio) and he will back this year to fight to champion title.he will run with mitsubishi lancer evo 9
David Salanon and Céline Combronde will drive one 307 WRC(BSA?) in France Tarmac Championship 2007 .
I think that Jean-Marie Cuoq will run his 307 WRC with YACCO as sponsor too.
Julien Pressac also will take part on board of one 207 S2000.
http://teamsalanon.nuxit.net/
But.. Pressac will be driving in Gravel Champ.Quote:
Originally Posted by padWRC
Yes, it's gravel for Pressac, tarmac for Salanon... ;)
For the first time in my life I see a rally car that is sponsored... by another rally! I wonder who pays for that? ;)
http://www.autoklub.pl/fotogalerie/m...07/img0198.jpg
Two Corolla S2000 for the Portuguese Champ. one to Vitor Sá and the other to António Rodrigues ;)
http://193.126.231.100/projectos/spo...otos/15008.jpg
From Italy:
The Mistsubishi Andreucci's car livery for next season
http://www.racingworld.it/public/rally/Varie/23711a.jpg
Very nice livery for Andreucci!
Quote:
Originally Posted by Jarek Z
Jean-Marie Cuoq is sponsored by his own home region in France(Ardêche) here too, who paid for this ?? :p : :D
from Italy
The line-up of Ralliart Italy for the next season are complete.
Matteo Gamba was the winner of "Trofeo Evo Cup 2006", and he will drive this year the Evo IX together with Paolo Andreucci!
Hi!Quote:
Originally Posted by Kakuke
It would be very, very interesting to see on one rally young talented estonians and Evgeniy Novikov, who won 52 seconds from 27-km SS from Zhigunov and Dorossinskiy at Ermak rally :) 2 weeks to wait... :)
Friends from Hungaria, any news? rumours?
Benik - Focus WRC?
Toth - 307 WRC? or 207 S2000?
Spici - Lancer WRC?
Butor?
Turi?
Tagai?
in lithuania 1st round sampo winter raly saulius girdauskas will run with ford focus wrc
Most certain and important entries of the 2007 Dutch championship:
* Erik Wevers - Toyota Corolla WRC (maybe a Fabia later on)
* Mark van Eldik - Subaru Impreza WRC (type not certain yet, S12 maybe)
* René Kuipers - Toyota Corolla WRC
* Dirk Boers - Subaru Impreza WRC '99
* Martin van Iersel - Subaru Impreza WRC '98
* Dave Turnbull - Subaru Impreza WRC (S9)
* Graham Coffey - Subaru Impreza WRC (S8 or 9)
* Ger Haverkate - Skoda Octavia WRC evo 3
* Jan de Winkel - Renault Clio S1600
* Ronald Koops - Volkswagen Polo S1600
* Hans Weijs sr. - Volkswagen Golf 4 Kit Car
* Ronald Leemans - Mitsubishi Lancer evo 6 (A)
* Jan v/d Marel - Mitsubishi Lancer evo 6 (A)
* Guy Woodcock - Ford Escort Kit Car
Some more Kit Cars, Mitsu's (A and N) and Subaru's (N). Peter Bijvelds will be participated in some of the rally's (Group A Lancer), but no championship aspirations from him this year. Also a rumoured Focus WRC in the championship and certaintly some guest appearances from more Irish and British drivers. No news on S2000's here. Nonetheless, best field in years :up:
Are there no video's of the rally in the Polish championship this weekend?
Thanks!
Only some rumors... Butor wants to stay with the Swift, Turi with Fabia wrc, he has contract with Skoda Hungary for this year, this year he tries to avoid Profiko, last year was a disaster with that car. He raced once with Kahle's Fabia and he liked it, but if he could choose, he'd love to change for an evo2.Quote:
Originally Posted by IQ206
Ollé changed his Ignis S1600 also for Swift, and some says there will be a Clio aswell. For Toth it seems realistic some IRC rounds with 207 S2000 with 1-2 hungarian championship rounds.
For the others nothing sure, but Tagai will probably stay with his Octavia, he said he loves that car.
thx teufel, no rumours about benik? and spici? do You think it will be better season then 2006? I keep fingers crossed for Toth in IRC
Me thinks I've read that Benik Balasz will run in a team with a GrN car(I don't remember if it'll be in PWRC or in another championship like ERC, IRC,...) :confused:
From Madeira championship:
The two Peugeots 206 S1600 that were bought from Peugeot Portugal arrived Madeira last week. In the weekend they have been tested during an intensive session with support of the technician from Peugeot Portugal.
The pics
http://fotos.ralismadeira.com/main.p...tes/olcateam2/
http://fotos.ralismadeira.com/main.p...stes/olcateam/
Benik will run on Corona Rally with OMV Bixxol Rally Team in PWRC. (OMV Balázs main sponsor)
He wants to drive a WR Car on Hungarian events, I think it will be Ford.
I don't think that 2006 was not a good season ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by IQ206
btw, it seems now that wrc cars can run toward the end of 2007, so i'm pretty sure, that Benik will stay with wrc. It will be a bit harder for him, 'cause JM has no more wrc cars left, if i'm not mistaken, so he needs to look for another trustful partner team.
All I know about Spici is that they got the biggest part of the budget for 2007, so I think he will stay with Mitsu if it's possible.
Other possibility is an S9 Subaru WRC (maybe for Herczig, who was racing last year with an Impreza WRC98), but Fri should have more updated info on this ;)
again from lithuania championship
in our championship are many new cars for this year so fastests our drivers:
Gimzauskas from evo VI to EVO IX
Vanagas new subaru impreza wrx sti spec c (from prodrive)
Cirba from renault clio to evo IX
Ezerskis new subaru impreza wrx sti
Capkauskas from bmw 318 to evo IX
Janusas from evo VIII to evo IX
Jursys from ford escort to evo VIII
Baranauskas from bmw 318 to subaru impreza wrc sti and also ford fiesta st(will run in fiesta sporting trophy)
Girdauskas from evo VII to focus WRC
No S2000 for Lithuania ?? :mark:
unfortunately not.maybe in future....
VideoQuote:
Originally Posted by Madeira
http://mirrors.netmadeira.com/pub/Vi...esOlcaTeam.avi
Pics of the new Zurita's 307 WRC (Catalan Champion 2006 with a Cordoba WRC), probably see it in Rally Catalunya.
http://www.pl11racing.com/images/wallpaper/zurita.jpg
http://www.pl11racing.com/rallies/20...tos/142007.jpg
http://www.pl11racing.com/rallies/20...tos/142024.jpg
Quote:
Originally Posted by Le NaRcX
Thanks!!! I didn't know there was a new whale in Spain !! :bounce:
Does it come from Bozian ?? :confused:
At the end of last year there was a rumour that Bozian and a spanish driver(no name given) were discussing about a whale...
http://www.tiva-tiva.com/rally/Test_...2_07/index.htmQuote:
Originally Posted by Tom206wrc
This isn't a Bozian car, this is the ex-car of Claudio Alvarez in the Canary Islands. I don't know about your rumour :)
Other new:
Dani Sola probably will run the Spanish Tarmac Championship with a Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX