Rally2 (ex-R5) News

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Originally Posted by JUF

How dumb you have to be to steal a pretty rare car like a rally car? What did they want to do? Selling parts via eBay :D?

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Of course you can sell the parts and if not directly in Poland for sure you can do that accross the border in Ukraine.

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Originally Posted by Mirek

Of course you can sell the parts and if not directly in Poland for sure you can do that accross the border in Ukraine.

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Well, you're probably better informed than me, so I guess you´re right. But as an owner of a Fiesta R5 don't you buy the parts directly from M-Sport?

The rich teams do but plenty of others don't. It's same like with stock cars.

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Originally Posted by RS

Crikey. Shows how difficult it is to build a good R5 car when even VW, with all their WRC success, struggle with reliability problems.

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They should've left the R5 market to their sister company...

I bet Škoda are having a chuckle at them

The motorsport department which VW built has to be used for something and the R5 projects have proved they can be self-feeding or even profitable.

Kopecky test crash in new Fabia R5...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D5epfjDXoAAxbVu.jpg

https://twitter.com/PeAChapaRacing/s...53014877491200

Ouch, that's a bad one. Presume crew ok?

not a good week for Jan.
Hope they are ok,very serious crash

Kajto about his polo r5
https://twitter.com/pepomatiauda/sta...86605484544000

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Originally Posted by dimviii

not a good week for Jan.
Hope they are ok,very serious crash

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The text with the tweet says he and the co-pilot are well.

Put a spanner in the works for the test though, unless they have more than one car on site.