VW News 2012 & WRC 2013

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Originally Posted by MJW

My guess is Audi concentrates on DTM leaving LeMans series to Porsche, I wonder if however it ends up like this, V6 Turbo in F1, common sense would badge that as Porsche but could be SEAT, Audi in DTM, VW in WRC, Skoda in WTCC?

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What about the Dakar? Won´t any of the group makes profit from VW's experience?

Porsche was/is marketing with their Cayenne in rally raids. It was tought that they would use the VW technice to build a Porsche Dakar winner

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Originally Posted by GigiGalliNo1

I hear the name Duval with VW ;)

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It shows the **** state the WRC is in when crap drivers like him still get linked to drives....

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Originally Posted by MJW

My guess is Audi concentrates on DTM leaving LeMans series to Porsche, I wonder if however it ends up like this, V6 Turbo in F1, common sense would badge that as Porsche but could be SEAT, Audi in DTM, VW in WRC, Skoda in WTCC?

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Audi released a statement welcoming Porsche, but made it clear they would be staying, i;e probably a Petrol-Hybrid Porsche v Diesel Audi. Whatever, the VW Group are really ramping up their Motorsport effort - good to see!!

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Originally Posted by HaCo

So will this project completely kill the Skoda project? It would be a real pitty, they have been really succesfull. Is it not possible that VW provides their 1.6T to put into the Skoda S2000?

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I wonder whether the Skoda project is partly the victim of the slightly muddy and too small difference between WRC spec/RRC and "Super 1.6T" that runs on WRC events.

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Originally Posted by skarderud

mads hasn't lost his flow, his fiesta has.....
weard thing that happens to all not works drivers in a ford last couple of years.....

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Is it not just a case of being very good on Scandinavian style events but mediocre elsewhere?

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Originally Posted by Mirek

AFAIK all Škoda 1.6T development was abandoned few weeks a go after more than half year of testing with their own Oreca engine. WTCC 1.6T engines of Seat are built by Lehmann.

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What kind of rally engines has Lehmann build before ?

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Originally Posted by RS

Is it not just a case of being very good on Scandinavian style events but mediocre elsewhere?

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its just the case that msport didn't had "customer spec" ready in sweden, after they had.
with mads speed in his s2000 at the homeevents this summer, i'll trust you that the speed is there. he is par with anders grøndal in a impreza s10 wrc, and beats all other wrc's in the field.

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Originally Posted by Sulland

What kind of rally engines has Lehmann build before ?

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you could get Lehmann built audi quattro engines back in the 1980's

Also Octavia WRC - last Evo 2 and Evo 3, Fabia WRC Evo 2 (I'm not sure here...).