i hope he is kidding.Quote:
Originally Posted by EightGear
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i hope he is kidding.Quote:
Originally Posted by EightGear
It was test day offered to lot of potential customers for the future...Quote:
Originally Posted by Simmi
So that indicates that they will be able to sort the problems out for next year? If not, I fear most of them will stay potential customers...Quote:
Originally Posted by PLuto
According autosport.pt, Bergkvist could debut Opel Corsa R5 at Valais.
You mean the car which nobody has ever seen?
Yes :) i don't believe on that.
Any place, any time, one man behind tree with a phone could record a test. No photos/videos....
It will be interested though what R5 car he will use on Valais..
http://autosport.pt/opel-estreia-cor...valais=f138650Quote:
Originally Posted by Andre Oliveira
Really weird...they're saying Bergkvist will be at Valais with the Corsa but don't say how (as 0 car? presenting a mock up model? testing after the rally?). At the same time it's said the Corsa R5 will be homologated in early 2016.
Autosport.pt got a trusty info about Hyundai's R5 project...it'd be great to see this one also coming true!
What do you mean guys? Are there more photos of a UFO than Opel Corsa R5? ;)
http://www.ufocasebook.com/rhodeIsland1967.jpg
Testing mule with old S2000 chassis (the car must still exist) and 1,6T engine is possible...but as you all already mentioned it has to be the very beginning of the whole process. And homologation in the early 2016 is definitelly not possible.
Hyundai R5 is much more real, but also in the beginning of whole process. But the process will be faster, because they can borrow few things from bigger sister i20 WRC. When can we expect the homologation of Hyundai R5?
Probably Skoda.Quote:
Originally Posted by mousti
Do You have some information supporting that claim? I haven't heard anything. Just asking...
Are you talking about the one they published in July copied form the autosport.com?Quote:
Originally Posted by Rally Power
Hyundai R5 was a kind of public secret for more than a year before it was announced but if I remember since June (Ypres rally) it has existed even officially (confirmed by Alain Penasse).
It was confirmed in May during the Rally of Portugal by Michel Nadan in person:Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
http://www.sportmotores.com/portal/!...20055&id=42472
Some more but cant tell yet.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
@E_Brynildsen: Say hello to my new #SkodaR5 killer. The latest Ford Fiesta R5 chassie from @MSportLtd First test tomorrow! Ready :)
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/COuxyk8W8AAqHIJ.jpg:large
Why does he say that? Is it a new evolution?Quote:
Originally Posted by Andre Oliveira
No, I'm talking about the info on Hyundai's R5 program they got by chance from a talk with Al-Attyah. It was published in last Oct or Nov.Quote:
Originally Posted by JAM
Eyvind is always like that, go out high:)Quote:
Originally Posted by RS
He said before this season that he is going to win 7 out of 7 races in the norwegian championship, he leads with 5 out of 7, and 2 rallies left!
A nice video from South Swedish Rally, with some Mirage R5 action.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBOzFPb0Sxo
Don't know if this is already mentioned on another thread here, but I just read that the Corsa R5 will make its debut at Valais, can anybody confirm this (my French is terrible):
http://www.rallye-passion.be/2015/09...lye-du-valais/
If true great news.
Those are quite poor quality renders, nothing more. And google translated french says nothing more than rumors.
I don't really believe they could manage to keep R5 development in such secrecy that there is no spy photos and no info about testing and so on.
So, now it looks more like publicity stunt. If there will be actual car I will be very surprised.
there is no Opel R5, project was postponed. no such car in Valais for sure
It was a lucky info, because in an interview about Dakar, Nasser told more than we was authorized for about the Hyundai projects :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Rally Power
Not sure if has already benn posted in english translation:Quote:
Originally Posted by Andre Oliveira
https://translate.google.no/translat...650&edit-text=
Hmm ...in fact it sounds logical. Looking forward to hear more.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rallyper
btw. Hyundai R5 project also postponed as they are behind the schedule with their new WRC car development.
They said today at i20 WRC presentation: R5 is available to customers 2016Quote:
Originally Posted by br21
Yes, it's actually earlier than expected. Some months ago Nandan said that Hyundai wants to offer it in 2017. It seems like they're even faster with the development.Quote:
Originally Posted by pantealex
Correct. Jörg Schrott explained in June that they will start with the development not earlier than 2017. In the upcoming year Opel will concentrate on the existing projects (+TCR-car and possibly RX-Supercar).Quote:
Originally Posted by br21
I never saw Nadan saying that the car would be ready only in 2017. I heard form Nadan himself in May that the project was running and the car would be ready in the beggining of 2016.Quote:
Originally Posted by JUF
And one of the main work to be done was to build all the structure to costumers support.
In my opinion R5 from Hyundai not earlier than mid 2016, but more likely in 2017...
Also never heard news from Proton. I think it was PG Andersson to talk about a development for a R5 car and then Oliver Mellors was on the Coppermines Grizedale Stages Rally in November 2014, on Proton Satria with a turbo-charged Renault engine.
At Rally Argentina in April he said it will be avaliable in 2017, in July it was said that it could be possible already in mid-2016 ;).
Probably due to the net echos, Opel Motorsport has denied the autosport.pt scoop and reinforce that the R5 program was postponed. Still, autosport.pt claims their sources revealed that the R5 Corsa project is moving!
http://autosport.pt/opel-motorsport-...-prazo=f138680
So, with Hyundai busy rallying their new WRC car (and developing the 2017 version) and Opel deferring their Corsa project, it seems that there won't be any new R5 car in 2016 (just the Joker Fiesta). Unless Mitsu gives a yes to the swedish Mirage!
Hyundai R5 car will start in 2016. Development of Opel R5 is still in progress, but will not start so early (end of this year).
I think Chris Ingram will be entering WRC Wales Rally GB in a Peugeot 208 T16 R5. On the entry list for the Cambrian Rally (using it as a pre WRC Wales test) he is entered in a Peugeot 208 under the "B14" class so it must be an R5 car.bSo I'm assuming that he will be entered by Peugeot UK or Academy, and maybe WRC 2/ERC campaign next year?
I think that there is chance for campaing in R5 car next year...Quote:
Originally Posted by RhysCad
Good luck to him, but is there any chance that Ingram will be any better than Charles Martin or Stephane Lefebvre?Quote:
Originally Posted by PLuto