"IRC general manager Marcello Lotti has confirmed he is in negotiation with a private team which will be running a brace of Fiesta S2000s in IRC next season."Quote:
Originally Posted by HaCo
Hmmm....
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"IRC general manager Marcello Lotti has confirmed he is in negotiation with a private team which will be running a brace of Fiesta S2000s in IRC next season."Quote:
Originally Posted by HaCo
Hmmm....
Ford will be in IRC next year...
Good market for S2000 fiestas..
Has to be a hard decision to buy a 250 000+ car without any comparison to the competition. A lot of people will follow Wilsom Jr closely in Scotland I guess......
[quote="Sulland"]Has to be a hard decision to buy a 250 000+ car without any comparison to the competition. A lot of people will follow Wilsom Jr closely in Scotland I guess......[/QUOTE
The whole field since he is doing safety car :)
When is the official release for the car?
Watch here ;)
http://www.fiestas2000.com/
Another Kronos/Peugeot scheme. If they win it'll be a Ford win, if they loose it'll be a Msport (or new satelite team) defeat...Quote:
Originally Posted by HaCo
Doesn't matter, hopefully more great cars and good drivers into IRC!
They will need to put a decent driver in a car to beat Kopecky, Hanninen, Meeke. It will not be considered a decent car until it can beat these bunch.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rally Power
Do I feel a drivers market developing?!
Maybe we will see return of Markko Martin, who knows. He did a lot of the testing work for the Fiesta. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Buzz Lightyear
Where did You find that?
Markko Martin has no IRC plans for 2010 incl not The MCQuote:
Originally Posted by wwbroe
Vouilloz could be free next year, and maybe Basso....
Website online:
http://www.fiestas2000.com/media/
Nice, I hope it will be fast too. ;)
Colour scheme disappointing. No great noise too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFsEw...layer_embedded
I'm liking the look of the car. I suppose the colour scheme is only temporary until they get it into competitive hands with sponsors. It kind of makes you lose the front of the car a bit. Very nice from the back though.
I like it a lot. Looking forward to see it live in Monte Carlo :)
Ddddamn I just love this little sexy machine! :D I can't stop watching that video and those images. Damn, what a beauty. :love:
http://www.fiestas2000.com/media/ind...al-informationQuote:
The new car's suspension is based on the MacPherson strut system, a simpler system than that currently in use on the Ford Focus RS WRC, but as on the WRC car, the Fiesta uses Reiger shock absorbers. However, new FIA rules which ban ball bearings in the dampers meant that significant research was needed into reducing the friction losses.
It looks mint in that livery and the sound of the car is amazing!!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by noel157
The car is perfect!
Awesome sound,I could say the best from a modern rallycar I have heard in a long time,and the looks are just brutal!
Chief Designer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0izZ...eature=related
Chief Test engineer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5WqZ...eature=related
THE Chief: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwIO6...eature=related
You left somebody out.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sulland
Yes did not see them before I searched:
Launch video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjq0pNJ7sB0
Motorsport Director: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBqVFeesvyw
M-Sport Boss: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IFAbz6I0qk
Tester: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBqVFeesvyw
Was there any more ?
No, only joking (the tester video).Quote:
Originally Posted by Sulland
Does anyone know how many of Fiesta's they have used in testing so far?
I've counted two: PX58 AXF and PX59 AHG.
I know there are two (test) cars, Simmi. But I know only the 1st reg. plate.
M-Sport expecting to build 20 cars before March 2010 and a total of 50 cars in the first 12 months.
http://fiestas2000.com/index.php/faqs
Wow they are churning them out at a rate then. Exciting stuff.Quote:
Originally Posted by Roy
I just hope that none of the flood water has got into Dovenby Hall and the M-Sport factory. Cockermouth has been BADLY hit by flooding over the past 24 hours. The streets are being navigated by motorised dinghys at the moment.
The Fiesta looks really nice and I'm looking forward to seeing it on Monte. I expect Ford to register, even if they aren't funding a "works" team. Hopefully M-Sport will run a team with two decent drivers, that would be a virtual works team.
The car doesn't quite have the wonderful deep grunty sound of the Fabia to my ears, and I notice the engine has a shorter stroke so I don't expect it to be quite as torquey as the Fabia either.
The Fabia and Fiesta both share excellent Reiger suspension though so the new Ford should be good on the rough stuff :up:
Was talking to a guy who watched the Fiesta in Scotland today. He tells me it was visibly faster than Meeke or Wilk's car, especially on the uphill parts of the stage. Should make things interesting next season.
If Mathew started 5 minutes before Alister to TV SS3, than he was 31 seconds slower than Alister in that stage. Of course he could have started in different time to make it more difficult to measure it's time (as Skoda did in Barum 08).
I find that quite hard to believe. Prefer to wait for real stage times next year!Quote:
Originally Posted by noel157
Here's a new (poor quality) video of the Fiesta:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbnfTVeHWAQ
I guess everybody's perception of speed is different and perhaps he only saw the speed of the car on a section that proved little. Hopefully somebody somewhere will have times.
RS, why do you think it would not have the speed (or maybe more of it) than the 207 nor Fabia?
The video gives a better indication of the sound, much better exhaust note can be heard than on the silly Spy Video.
Not so good in sound,but seems very healthy motor.Quote:
Originally Posted by RS
Ford guys said that Fiesta was a little slower than Kris Meeke.
I think people doubting the speed doesn't necessarily come from the car but from the driver.
I mean if the Fiesta was actually faster than the two leaders what would that say about the car! That would be biblical with Matt Wilson behind the wheel. If they really wanted to compare times they would have put someone else in the car.
Little? :dozey:Quote:
Originally Posted by Xsara Fan