Audi don't seem to be interested in Rallying - Le Mans/Sportscars/DTM is what they do. Dr Ulrich has stated that those series suit Audi best.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zeakiwi
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Audi don't seem to be interested in Rallying - Le Mans/Sportscars/DTM is what they do. Dr Ulrich has stated that those series suit Audi best.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zeakiwi
How much knowledge can VW obtain from Skoda ?
wrong.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fly_Half
The Fabia S2000 is really a great rally car and if you look for a vw car to transfer all the experience you've gained with tha fabia, it would be polo.
But then, there was 307 CC WRC.
AFAIK two Fabias have been in Hannover for a while...Quote:
Originally Posted by Zeakiwi
Polo!
Looks like a scirocco to me?
Scirocco is lower and has a wider front..Quote:
Originally Posted by Daniel
#VW announce that they will enter the #WRC in 2013
https://twitter.com/#!/Becsywecsy
The car is going to be the polo.... once more people opened their mouths before knowing the facts....
At least they talk through their mouths.Quote:
Originally Posted by N.O.T
awesome :cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ondra WRC
hmmm they do not even have an actual car running, they used a replica for the presentation.....lets see how serious they are about it. They already took the project 1 year further....
nice car .. ;)
Great to see it finally confirmed, but I was hoping for them to say they will do a few events in 2012!
Next question, will Porsche take over the VW Dakar car-body and disguise it as a Porsche Cayenne? VW will make Race Touaregs available for privat teams for the Dakar rally? So we can expect a Team Barwa/Nasser Al Attiyah in the 2012 Dakar defending the Arabic title
Wonderful!! Now we can talk competition in WRC!!
Vw Polo R WRC has been confirmed for the WRC!!!! They are using the Fabia S2000 as a testing base. WRC.com have the story!!! :D
Good news for the WRC.
Is that Darth vadar launching the Polo R WRC in those pics? Haha
WRC.com down at the moment. Totalrally's tweet says VW's looking for a young German driver + established driver for the team. Is 2013 already too late for Petter and/or Juho?
I was at the press conference of Volkswagen, here's some pics taken during the launch :)
http://www.rallyemotion.it/news/811-...-la-polo-r-wrc
German rally driver....hmmmmmm no...
There are going to be plenty of choices for the established one by that year though.
Happy. :)
So it will be Juho and some German driver wonder who that might be, maybe they dig Schwartz from naftaline.
hanninen would be a top choice...but maybe they will go for something more marketable as their first driver and keep hanninen as support and to take his place after they establish themselves.
I do not believe they will risk to have a german driver in the team if they are serious and their aim is to win championships.
If I would have to choose, I would choose Hänninen and the best possible of the young Czech drivers, he would cover the central Europe marketing thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by N.O.T
Problem is most Czech championships are tarmac and although they have some of the best drivers in the World, they have few experience on gravel, which might not come in andy in a gravel oriented championship.
I guess they will get plenty of competition miles on the engine in the Fabia next year at least.Quote:
Originally Posted by Allyc85
2013... or later... not so wow...Quote:
Originally Posted by Rallyper
Hänninen and Gaßner are already competing SWRC this year and this VW´s entry reinforced the earlier speculation. There is no other German drivers and must be a plan that these two drivers will drive Polo R WRC and for sure Al-Attiyah has also somekind of role.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tomi
I think that Petter is not on their list and he is not ready to be out of the WRC next year and doing only Polo testing. And for sure Citroen will not give him a car anymore if they know that he will drive for VW in 2013...
Maybe he's keeping it hush hush from citroen? Theres not many german drivers that are as well known as petter.Quote:
Originally Posted by rp
I belive you might be right about the drivers, I also dont think petter is on their list.Quote:
Originally Posted by rp
I think that the Polo is a beauty of a car. However, I think that we can forget Solberg as a driver for VW. I don't think he would want to wait till 2013, even if they offer him Dakar. More likely Al-Attiyah and Hanninen plus someone else.
I'm sure a lot will also depend on what Loeb does, if he goes Solberg could be in line to replace him and I don't think there is anyone else better qualified.
There will be more changes in who drives and where than most think.Quote:
Originally Posted by rp
I agree with you DonJippo. http://www.motorsportforums.com/foru...ons/icon14.pngQuote:
Originally Posted by DonJippo
VW has enough time to see who they want, in 2011 all the drivers must prove that they deserve those places.
Anyone who wants to talk about who they want in the teams would be better use http://www.motorsportforums.com/foru...s-and-comments.,
instead of wasting many other threads and starting for each subject their own thread.
The car looks great...