Good to see more teams joining in. Regarding the team above, if I am not mistaken on the identity, I worked with them on their Racecar project 11 years ago doing a lot of the design work on the chassis.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rally Power
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Good to see more teams joining in. Regarding the team above, if I am not mistaken on the identity, I worked with them on their Racecar project 11 years ago doing a lot of the design work on the chassis.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rally Power
Does anyone know if the Alpine is ready for Monte Carlo?
Great to hear! What car was it, their Euro Nascar protos?Quote:
Originally Posted by NickRally
Hard to tell; they’ve anouced the car would be ready on early 2020 but for now only Delecour outing in Touquet Rally (mid March) seems to be confirmed.Quote:
Originally Posted by wildboar
[QUOTE=Rally Power;1237185]Great to hear! What car was it, their Euro Nascar protos?
Yes, correct, the Euro Nascar, which was one of the better quality Nascar type chassis that I have seen.
[QUOTE=NickRally;1237218]Don't they use space frame chassis? It'd be great having your opinion on WRC future debate ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Rally Power
[QUOTE=Rally Power;1237241]Thanks for respecting my opinion mate, I typed something on my computer prior to posting in the other thread, but it came a bit negative in general about the state of motorsport, so I thought I should spare the wider audience this negativism :)Quote:
Originally Posted by NickRally
There's plenty of people who are respecting the insider's view here. Don't bother to read those neg comments. I would really like to read some of your thought so bring it on mate!
Splendid debut from the Alpine in France:
https://www.facebook.com/TeamFJ/posts/2635974870015469
Showed good "out of the box" speed, that should be even better after analyses of data from first rally!
Looks really nice to!https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...04b4e08b43.jpg
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And on very difficult conditions, certainly on saturday. The grip was so changing, never seen that before, very tricky. We were around position 55 for the 2nd day and never saw so much crashed cars on the stages as that day :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Sulland
Looking forward to see the Alpine in gravel-set-up!
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https://youtu.be/obMtW4YDLLM
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15m to ease from covid stress: Vallejo brother’s 911, Nueva-Labra stage, Rally Llanes 2015 onboard https://youtu.be/1Za0gkw3tSI?t=77
Alpine A110 Rally received its R-GT homologation from the FIA on Monday July 20, 2020.
Source (sorry, French only):
https://lesalpinistes.com/alpine-a11...mologuee-r-gt/
Porsche 997 GT3 of Petr Nesetril is competing in Rally di Roma Capitale this weekend.
https://www.rallylink.it/cms20/image...9/163A0666.JPG
But lying 41st overall - nice to watch and hear but that's it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jarek Z
I assume, without knowing all the details, it is driver related as the fastest RGT (Fiat 124) was ~3.5min behind the fastest R2 car and the Porsche was ~8min slower than the fastest R2.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
Petr Nešetřil is nearly fifty years old gentleman driver who did only his second event outside Czech republic. He drives for fun (but his car is very good actually).
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ed4OP1QX...pg&name=medium
Photo: https://twitter.com/911_Mag
At Rally Ourense (spain’s series), the Vallejo brothers were able to run once more their former 911 champ car. It was a brief show (radiator leak after SS3) but the crew and the crowd surely loved every minute of it.
Nice on-board: https://vallejoracing.com/este-es-el...ye-de-ourense/
Delecour’s A110 magnificent livery for Rallye du Mont-Blanc:
https://scontent.fopo1-1.fna.fbcdn.n...70&oe=5F4596E2
Been watching the videos from Rallye Ourense (Jose Antonio Suarez in a Skoda as spectacular as I remember him on Rally GB 2016 in the 206!), good stuff! Is this still the Tuthill developed Porsche and does anyone know whether it's still compliant with FIA R-GT regs? Or have they tweaked it under National regs?Quote:
Originally Posted by Rally Power
I believe they’ve only used a Tuthill developed car on their gravel seasons, but always under local GT rules, which become heavily restrictive in 2016; btw, most 911’s used in spain were ex-racing cup units, converted to rally specs by local tuners.Quote:
Originally Posted by the sniper
Yo are nearly right, they never used a tuthill unit, they just developed with them the suspension of the gravel car, which was also a Cup car conversion. The unit used in Ourense was a 2010 cup version (which has been used in Canary Islands last years in hands of Enrique Cruz), running on spanish national regs that since 2016 have put on them an air restrictor, I think in Spain we never had a 911 complying with R-GT FIA regsQuote:
Originally Posted by Rally Power
Gil Freitas was competing in Rali Vinho da Madeira with his Porsche 991 GT3 last weekend, a round of Portuguese Rally Championship. Unfortunately he failed to finish the event due to some technical problem on the 15th stage. He was 12th overall at that time.
A photo of Freitas' beautiful car:
https://ralivm.com/2020/sites/defaul..._dsc2459_0.jpg
Final results:
https://www.ewrc-results.com/final/6...-madeira-2020/
[QUOTE=Jarek Z;1249124]Gil Freitas was competing in Rali Vinho da Madeira with his Porsche 991 GT3 last weekend, a round of Portuguese Rally Championship. Unfortunately he failed to finish the event due to some technical problem on the 15th stage. He was 12th overall at that time.
A photo of Freitas' beautiful car:
https://ralivm.com/2020/sites/defaul..._dsc2459_0.jpg
And this is already 991 gen.
Actually there are 2 drivers called Freitas driving 911's in Madeira...Gil retired after damaging a wheel while Filipe won RGT, ending 10th overall; here's Filipe 911:Quote:
Originally Posted by Jarek Z
https://images.autosport.pt/2020/08/...calheta-15.jpg
Photo: autosport.pt
Surprising job from the A110 crews on Mont-Blanc; scratch on SS1 and P3 overall for Guigou (P8 for Pellier) after the first loop, among 35 R5’s! https://www.ewrc-results.com/results...2020/?s=296502
Btw, here’s Guigou PET video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wD-H0HucbUc
as i had wrote already watching tests,car was faster from 911s.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rally Power
Fantastic results for Alpine A110 R-GT drivers in Rallye Mont-Blanc Morzine 2020! Emmanuel Guigou finished the rally in the 3rd position and Laurent Pellier was 6th overall. They were faster than most R5 cars in this rally. Moreover, Robert was 16th and Delecour 17th.
Final results:
https://www.ewrc-results.com/results...2020/?s=296514
http://www.autonewsinfo.com/wp-conte...86-768x512.jpg
A beautiful photo by our forum member who visited France last weekend:
https://www.facebook.com/rallyimage/...type=3&theater
There's probably a sensible explanation for this, but, who knows...? https://www.evo.co.uk/porsche/911/20...che-911-safari :D
Production of Abarth/FIAT 124 has ended.
So it´s bit harder to make new R-GT units.
So who will Alpine fight against now?
Guys, apparently something called FIA RGT Cup still exists and Monza is the last round. Someone called Luc Caprasse leads now, but Italian Andrea Mabellini wants to win Monza and the whole cup with his Abarth 124. Is it going to be the last ever title for Abarth in the history? :)
https://www.fia.com/events/r-gt-cup/...lassifications
https://www.fiaerc.com/erc-abarth-ra...rea-mabellini/
Nesetril and Gobbin wants to win too :D
But they lose! Andrea Mabellini overtakes Luc Caprasse in the last round and wins!Quote:
Originally Posted by PLuto
https://www.fia.com/events/r-gt-cup/...lassifications
https://www.media.fcaemea.com/cache/...9d89ab612.jpeg
Is there anybody anywhere who was watching this exciting battle for the RGT Cup? ;)
For sure. Me. As I know most of the competitors in the cup personally :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Jarek Z
Michel Bonfils is testing Alpine R-GT in winter conditions before Rallye Monte Carlo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9XZ...ature=emb_logo
Here's Cedric Robert on snow and ice. You can see how difficult it is to drive such car in these conditions:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uDy...ature=emb_logo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx9k...nel=LpRallye13 Astier testing for Monte Carlo, first time he sat behind the wheel of the Alpine. Looks very impressive to me.