Evgeniy Novikov will take part in 2010 Russian Rally Championship with Mitsubishi Lancer EVO X.
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Evgeniy Novikov will take part in 2010 Russian Rally Championship with Mitsubishi Lancer EVO X.
That is good news. The IRC event was a nice rally, much better than the previous one from WRC.Quote:
Originally Posted by muscrae
Booked our flights last night, will go to Jordan then make our own way up to Istanbul via Syria and Lebanon, can't wait!
Apparently Citroen Junior will not compete in the New Zealand Rally? Raikonen will be employed to the Junior team, and he will do the entire 2010 season, except New Zealand:
"It is understood that Raikkonen will contest the entire WRC season apart from the New Zealand Rally, which his team is not competing in. He will also participate in the Arctic Rally.""
And thus would miss one of the best rallies of the year; now that would be a shame.Quote:
Originally Posted by alleskids
I agree..
According to autosport.pt, Jean Todt is inviting WRC and IRC members to a rally meeting in order to discuss rally issues to be decided at next FIA world council. Meeting is agended to wednesday 9th, two days before WMSC.
Good to know Todt's really interested in rally future!
He made some part of it..
i feel a 2011 amalgamation coming on....Quote:
Originally Posted by Rally Power
Well it would be better to have one strong championship rather than a 2 diluted championships. I admit I dont like S2000, but if it means we have 4 or 5 manufactureres with S2000 I would accept that for a while. I will miss teh proper WRC cars, and feel that 1.6T is not viable at the moment. Citroen have made the biggest noise about a 1.6T plus possibly Mini. I however find it strange that Ford is putting so much effort into the 2 litre Fiesta - surely this cant be for Tuohino, Pons etc........?
Yep certainly looking to Mr. JT to put an end to all this uncertainty over the coming few weeks. As difficult as it is a decision does need to be made ASAP.
I think it is only to get chassis experience before 2011 and earn some money and in parallel develop the 1600T from what they know now.Quote:
Originally Posted by MJW
Once FIA in November 2010 has decided on the regs in 1600T for 2011 (!) then Ford will have it ready for homologation by 31 Dec 2010 !!
But even with chassis experience this will not be 100% accurate as a 2 litre N/A engine will sit differently in a car than a smaller lighter 1.6T. Also power delivery and centrifugal forces in the engines will not be that same. Maybe I am naiieve, but I expect another U turn and that 2.0N/A will be what we have until 2015 or whenever the World Engine concept comes in.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sulland
MJW, and why not... if it was the case already IRC would run empty and WRC would be back in its full glory for sure.
My own feeling is that I would rather watch a Fiesta S2000 than a Focus WRC, but 'S1600T' could be better still (if they can make them sound ok)Quote:
Originally Posted by MJW
Subaru joins IRC
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/80451
Guess it won't happen so soon, currently with 2 manufacturer in WRC and 10 in IRC.Quote:
Originally Posted by HaCo
That's what the IRC say but it is such a misleading statement to make.Quote:
Originally Posted by tmx
The one's who are there with any real purpose are Peugeot, Skoda and Proton. It remains to be seen what Ford do in 2010 but ultimately they belong to the WRC.
So let's not even pretend the number is that lopsided in favour of the IRC.
Eventually they (Ford) will have to enter IRC, so that their Fiesta S2000 can score points, it took Subaru some time to realize it, but they entered for 2010, same will happen with Ford :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Simmi
Would they have to enter even just for drivers to score points in the series?Quote:
Originally Posted by ProRally
Yes
So this will be interesting. As a commercial exercise for M-Sport it makes sense to have people in the IRC. But for Ford Motor Company maybe less so when they have thrown their weight behind the WRC.Quote:
Originally Posted by 'Mirek Fric [Cze
But it's for all Ford drivers, not only S2000 ones. That means every single Fiesta gr.N or R2 and any other car. For me it makes sense to provide hundreds of customers an opportunity to score points and be visible on Eurosport.
Are they thinking about coming back to WRC eventually? I hope so :)Quote:
Originally Posted by SubaruNorway
TrueQuote:
Originally Posted by Simmi
They're a couple of months thinking to come back to the WRC ASAP, as they are selling again a good number of cars. They are just waiting to have a stable financial situation, then they'll come back. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by koko0703
Where did you get that information?Quote:
Originally Posted by Motorsportfun
Rally Deutschland is first event to bring more millage back into WRC. 2010 edition contains 420 km of stages in three legs while Baumholder stage is now 48 km long.
http://www.rallye-magazin.de/top/top...gen/index.html
Excellent news!Quote:
Originally Posted by 'Mirek Fric [Cze
Plus one of the tarmac stages, Hermeskeil, will have a long gravel session in it.
The bad news is that there was never another winner than Loeb when it was in WRC and it will be the same next year.Quote:
Originally Posted by 'Mirek Fric [Cze
Nice to have Rally Germany back next year. It's my favourite tarmac rally by far after the Monte.
Can't see the bad news here. Sorry.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wim_Impreza
Totally agree ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Simmi
Now that's a Rally! I hope this is the start of a new trend of organisers really testing the Drivers & Cars with the way they construct their events.Quote:
Originally Posted by 'Mirek Fric [Cze
I talked about it with some figures at Subaru. They still hope to have a good financial situation to have a good budget for rallying. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by grugsticles
Do they have a suitable car in their range for S2000 regs?Quote:
Originally Posted by Motorsportfun
The new coupe co-built with Toyota won't be sold until 2011.Quote:
Originally Posted by Simmi
2011 at best... I think I read production was estimated at late 2011, assuming it doesnt get cancelled before then. But if they did make a rally version of that car it would look awesome :D
Currently I think Subaru only has the Impreza which I think could make an okay s2000, though its bigger than the Fiesta and 207. There were rumors of a new Justy appearing at the Tokyo Motor Show last month but I don't think it actually did, though I'm not sure.
Exactly... it's one of their options ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Rally Hokkaido
Let's just hope to see Subaru selling lots of cars around the world! Then we can see some move :)