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Originally Posted by Ucci
Now that reliability seems to work, I'm impatient to follow Breen and Abbring this coming week-end in Portugal ;)
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Originally Posted by Ucci
Now that reliability seems to work, I'm impatient to follow Breen and Abbring this coming week-end in Portugal ;)
One rally won't confirm that, I really hope they both don't get problems and especially Abbring. I guess he will be the fastest again (like in Greece) of the two..
Thanks to Luis Pacheco, Moura's car
https://fbcdn-photos-e-a.akamaihd.ne...51294512_n.jpg
What surprise to hear/read about Karl Kruuda in a 208 T16 in WRC2 Sardigna next month :eek: :confused:
208 comes from TRT Rally team, Tagai probably? Printsport will do service.
Kobus will test tomorrow a Fiesta R5 at MSport. Good chance I think he will buy one and debut with it in Ypres. He has said multiple times this season he's on the limit with his Fiesta S2000 and can't beat Loix with it. Although beating Loix in Belgium is always quite difficult :D
He is also driving on Kumho tyres. I have no idea how good they are but probably hardly on Michelin pace.
I think the tyres are not so bad, especially on dry conditions. In Belgium loops are relatively short, so it's hard to judge on the wear of the tyres. (In average you don't see more than 40km SS between two service-breaks.) Of course in Ypres conditions are different, and tyre wear could be an issue (especially if we see extremely hot weather like we've seen in 2010). From my feeling I don't think it's possible for him to be much faster with Michelin tyres. The Kumho's are "alive" and moving much more than the michelin tyre, obviously, but I think this suits his driving style and he actually likes it. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
Federico della Casa on a DS3 R5 on entrylist of next week's Rallye du Chablais(swiss rallies championship) :confused:
In french magazine Auto Hebdo, Olivier Maroselli, former ingeneer from Mitsubishi and Renault talked about Maxi Rally cars in Argentina. He is now working in Argentina for Tango Rally Team, and helped to create this category.
He said FIA is interested in what he did there. They are interested in a upgrade he is doing with an ex Peugeot ingeneer, Stéphane Basque. It would be a 1.6T engine and worked as a kit, in the spirit of R5.
FIA would like to use it to replace N cars, in order to see WRC / Regionals Rallies growing in term of competition.
Teams would have only to assemble the chassis. The whole other parts would be the same for each models.
A full car will cost around 150 000€.
Next year should be very interesting in ERC. Peugeot should have got the car working properly by then and I expect Skoda to have tested properly so we can have a real duel for the title!
What are the Maxi Regulations? I can't find a thread on here about them. From the videos I've found I can't tell if they're FWD or 4WD (though I suspect 4WD)
Here is the link:Quote:
Originally Posted by Jack4688`
http://www.motorsportforums.com/show...xi-Rally-Class
The Maxi Rally cars use a 2.4 Honda engine, four wheel drive transmission from the Subaru Impreza, Modena 6-speed sequential gearbox. Basically what's free to choose is the suspension.
In Rally Argentina what was being said is that talks with Michelle Mouton were held, regarding the homologation of the 1.6 turbo engine. The plan of Mario Barattero, one of the developers of the idea, is to take a car to Europe until the end of this season.
I would prefer if they stayed with the naturally aspirated Honda engine - purely because of the sound :)
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Originally Posted by Andre Oliveira
mmmmh interesting livery ;)
Maxi rally cars in motorsportmonday, pages 72-79.
http://digital.motorsportmonday.com//launch.aspx?eid=13689a1d-de6e-49e3-b90d-e9547cea8f3d
The design on the bonnet is to blend in with the fire from the wiring loom :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Tom206wrc
Masked Fabia III (stock one) photos: http://www.autoforum.cz/predstaveni/...ueta-je-jasna/
Nothing breathtaking on the pictures but maybe someone is interested.
Seems to me that it would be much more beautiful than Fabia II...Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
That's not difficult task to achieve I think ;)
I guess we will see official photos of the new Fabia in June/July, and then they can present the R5 to us at Barum :)
I agree 100% with you ;-)Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
Unfortunately i think that we only see the Fabia in October in ParisQuote:
Originally Posted by RS
Do you mean R5 or road car?Quote:
Originally Posted by polo10
The road car starts production in August, and as with other recent new Skodas which have followed this pattern the first official photos were usually published around June/July before the motorshow presentation later.
ds3 r5 test with Chardonnet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?featur...&v=49IjKFSq7QQ
from motorsportmonday
when Magalhaes asked why he didn t entered with 208 r5 he answered that Peugeot dont delivering cars.
http://digital.motorsportmonday.com/...d-e9547cea8f3d
Kruuda-Järveoja https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQsf3AxDasU
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Originally Posted by dimviii
So Pieter Tsjoen is also in doubt :confused:
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Originally Posted by Kalm
Very spectacular :eek:
Don't think so it's an official program like in Italy with Ucci, and they have already enough negative press about it. Verschueren's DS3 should be there end of may.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tom206wrc
Does any one know something about this project?
https://www.facebook.com/MitsubishiR5Official
Looks very good at high speed, will be interesting to see how they do somewhere like Finland.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kalm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9m5DvmDB1q8
Another video from Kruudas test. Very Nice footage!
He really has sense of presentation :D