I am not convinced a private WRC2 programme in a DS3 R5 will be all that good for his career.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rallyper
What happened to his Opel contract?
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I am not convinced a private WRC2 programme in a DS3 R5 will be all that good for his career.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rallyper
What happened to his Opel contract?
An other year with the Adam R2 wouldn't make any sense, so leaving Opel was imo the best thing he could do. It's only strange no other manufacturer picked him up!Quote:
Originally Posted by RS
I think everyone has to bring money, no matter what they say publically. And money for rallying is rare in sweden. We have so many talented guy who missed the train during the years. I´m glad Fredrik Ahlin will do the BRC and oc we have Tidemand.
Let´s hope for his try this year and I know his goals stays. Youngest WDC ever!
Any idea of the entrylist of the newly created Citroën WRC2 Ultimate Challenge :confused:
Looks like Bonato and Bergkvist are part of the challenge regarding their program...
Bergkvist? He did crowdfunding for his home rally, so he needs big help to do a WRC2 program..
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Gustavo Sosa from Spain, will start in three WRC events: POR, ITA, ESP with Fiesta R5
Take a look at Emil Bergkvist FB from preparations before Rally Sweden. Zero-car in first round of SRC. WRC tires on Evo IX.
https://www.facebook.com/EMIL-Bergkv...4805148554356/
I'm really looking forward to see how Emil will perform in Rally Sweden. I hope he will do the job ;)
BTW : Hello everyone! I'm newely registered on the forum but I was reading it for a while,
Saw this nowhere else on the forum so I'm throwing this in here:
Emil Bergkvist plans to do select rounds of the season with J-motorsport. He goes on to mention that he felt at home in the car and that the plan is to do "half a dozen events" in their DS3.
Source, his FB.
Probably with support of Citroën Racing.
Translation:
Rally Sweden - step up to the big boys.
After securing a European championship for juniors in 2015, Emil Bergkvist and Joakim Sjoberg are now taking a big step up on their joint career ladder to the top. In collaboration with belgian J-Motorsport, the duo will participate in half a dozen rallies on the big WRC circus. The rallies will take place in the WRC2 class with a Citroen DS3 R5 and they will premiere in the car at their home Rally Sweden.
During the week, tests have been carried out before the start of the recce, and Emil quickly felt at home in the new car. "We tested for a day and I am very satisfied with the response we have received and the car feels fantastic to drive. We have been looking forward to this enormously and we can not thank everyone who helped make this possible enough."
The race is also the start of a new collaboration that has started to take shape in the tests. "J-Motorsport is a very professional team and our collaboration worked very well from the beginning. It's feels very good to be developing this further during the year" says Joakim Sjöberg.
"We know that we will be fighting with some of the best in the world and although we always strive to perform at maximum, the focus this week to gather experience and knowledge. Although we won't hide the fact that we look forward to compare our times against some of the best in the industry. "Emil's approach to Rally Sweden is clearly colored by the team's long-term goal, but if you believe that the duo only have the ambition to slowly roll through the event, one would think wrong, something that Emil clarifies. "It is neither my or Joakim's personality to do things half-way. We will not hold back but we probably will not be the ones who take the biggest risks, either. "
HopefullyQuote:
Originally Posted by mousti
WRC2 had a superb copetition in Sweden. Changes all the time on the leaderboard, two brands that are equal on the loose, maybe two more on asphalt.
this class has so much potential with privat and manufacturer cars being the same out of the box.
Good job by Evans pulling off the win in Sweden, with so many Nordic drivers participating!
I follow the RC2 closely. Exciting battles. A lot of young drivers with potential for the future.
However, many of us draw conclusions before any driver step up to RC1.
Al Attiyah, Ketomaa among others were (are) top drivers in the RC2 category but are far from the top in RC1 (And it's not only because of a lack of experience)
Yves Matton said on Belgian TV that the gap is big between the two categories. Everything is happening much faster in a RC1. You must be able to handle it.
However, the RC2 school is good to reach the top and it gives an idea of what the future in WRC1 will look like.
BTW: Suninen is my favorite. Good start from Bergkvist and Veiby.
And there is Elfyn Evans who is a great index for anybody in RC2 who would try to think that they would be fast in RC1. It seems for me that there is nobody close to it.
Tidemand did one stage with FWD only and lost one minute. Evans could of course only defend the lead after that but I think we can at least guess that Tidemand would be a tough opponent for him. Let's see in next events.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mariusz
Protasov is withdrawing from WRC2...
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Why?
Nasser with Fiesta R5 at Mexico :)
Unfortunately he has no sponsor for this moment :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Andre Oliveira
Bad :(
Protasov's team have pulled out so no car no team
How can you know until they get that chance?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mariusz
The gap between the fastest R5 drivers and the slower WRCs was not so big in Sweden. I'd say they're extracting nearly the maximum from those cars, but it would take some experience and time to then extract the maximum from a World Rally Car.
Luckily for these youngsters in the coming years there will be more seats available than fast and experienced drivers.
I'm all for them to get a chance, but let's be realistic. If they can't beat Evans in R5, they wouldn't miraculously become faster than Evans was in WRC after they switch to a faster car.
Exactly, completely agree.
It depends how you rate Evans.. if you check out his times from Sweden last year they were pretty competitive in what was probably the slowest World Rally Car.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mariusz
My impression is that Malcolm thinks his car is much better than it really is and that Evans and Tanak were scapegoated somewhat.
I think that is opposite, fans thinks that Ford is worse than it is.
Ogier win with Ford, bet all my money on that.
Abbring steps up R5 testing
Kevin Abbring put Hyundai Motorsport’s i20 R5 through a second phase of gravel testing in southern France earlier this week.
The Dutchman spent three days on the notoriously rough roads at the Fontjoncouse test area folllowing initial work there at the end of January focused on reliability.
Since then the team has been developing dampers and other suspension parts at its base in Alzenau, Germany, and Abbring concentrated on honing the car’s handling in this week’s session which ended on Monday.
The i20 R5 is due to be homologated in the summer after which it will be eligible for customers to use in WRC 2 against other R5 cars such as Citroën’s DS 3, the Skoda Fabia and Ford Fiesta.
Customer project manager Andrea Adamo said Hyundai would now step up the test programme of its first customer project with Abbring.
“Our testing schedule now increases its pace as we work to finalise the car for production in time to have it competing in the hands of our customers before the end of the year.
“To have another successful test of the New Generation i20 R5 is a big step towards our planned homologation date in late summer. Going through a test on the demanding surface of Fontjoncouse is a huge positive as we continue to develop the car,” he said.
Adamo added that more experienced personnel would join the project in the coming months as the pace of development increased.
http://www.wrc.com/en/wrc-2/news/201...source=WRC.com
Cédric Cherain will do 7 WRC-2 Rallies!
https://www.facebook.com/TACrally/ph...type=3&theater
Portugal, Poland, Finland, Deutschland, France (Corse), Spain and UKQuote:
Originally Posted by mousti
1st Belgian driver ever in WRC2!Quote:
Originally Posted by mousti
Serderidis is not as fast as Cherain but he was the pioneer in WRC2 ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by pantealex
I think he drives with a Greek licence. He is half Belgian, half Greek.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fly
Serderidis is greek
You're all right.
My mistake! Sorry! ;)
Without speaking greek!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Andre Oliveira
Sucks that he's not doing Ypres this year, but he should be decent on some of those tarmac rounds.
Julien Maurin 2016 program: Portugal, Italy, Poland, Deutschland, France and Spain + french championship
http://www.oreca.fr/blog/2016/02/29/...julien-maurin/
Sorry, but he is driving with belgium licence. He has only greek nationality as he has born there. But for sure, belgium licence.Quote:
Originally Posted by dupanton
I dont think that this is good choice for him. But Mr. Wilson is very strong in persuading... My bet is that Cedric will not do all planned rallies...Quote:
Originally Posted by mousti
Offcourse not ERC would fit him better. He was quite dissapointing in Haspengouw last weekend btw.Quote:
Originally Posted by PLuto
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