Two more drivers with R5 next season in Portugal
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Two more drivers with R5 next season in Portugal
Carlos Martins and Carlos Vieira?Quote:
Originally Posted by RICARDO75
Anything is better than green ! :hmph:Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
Is it just me, just my fellow colour-blinders, or everyone that thinks with black wheels* you can't see the bloody design of the damn things? It just hides the spoke pattern in darkness.
*Rim is a circular edge, in a wheel the rim is the part that comes in contact with the tyre. They are called wheels not rims.
I don't agree. I'm not a fan of the green ones but I still like them a lot more than the black. For me the black rims make the wheels looking smaller and the car appears optically slower with them as You can hardly see them rotating unless You are very close to the car. But ok, everybody likes something of his own taste :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
In that case white rims are best of all.. I think we all prefer them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
But black looks good when the car is static.
:) I'm not talking about theme.Quote:
Originally Posted by polo10
It's possible to have 10 R5 cars competing next year
Cool video! They've get some bad luck last weekend, but this Mirage is going places!Quote:
Originally Posted by Micke_VOC
Btw, Mpart AB and its partners found a clever way to get the Mirage in national champs through National R5 Homologation. Not every country will accept them, but NH are being welcome even in FIA international events.
Please tell me that you are not talking about that Portela guy again!! That's going nowhere. I don't see any big company giving lots of money to a guy that the best thing he ever raced was a Evo 5 Gr.N like fifteen years ago... even with Armindo's name in the panoram.Quote:
Originally Posted by RICARDO75
My bet would be Marco Cid and... can't say names. But, by my count, and if everything be according to the drivers planes, we will have 12/13 R5 Cars competing (3 DS3, 2 Skoda, 7 Fiestas)
Barros are selling his car, chassis 101 by 265.000€.
R5 to Vieira (sure), Peres (50/50), Martins (75%).
It's great to see MEM still developing the Satria.Quote:
Originally Posted by RICARDO75
So, besides the original S2000, there's a S2000 with a 2.5 NA Millington engine for national events and a S2000 1.6(or 2.0)T prototype. Any chance of knowing more details on this Turbo version?
S2000 at 2015 BRC Day
https://scontent-cdg2-1.xx.fbcdn.net...1e&oe=56BD083D
S2000 2.5 testing for 2015 season
https://scontent-cdg2-1.xx.fbcdn.net...16&oe=56CD7CAA
S2000 T seen in 2014
https://scontent-cdg2-1.xx.fbcdn.net...f5&oe=56CAE250
Photos from https://www.facebook.com/Oliver-Mell...0143352133655/
Great news about the top field! Lets hope we'll also see more 2WD and N4 cars to get proper entry lists.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheFlyingTuga
Sure +1 Ford +1 Skoda and +1 Citroen
If my sources are right (almost correct every time) the portuguese championship will be case study next year.
BRC vs CPR on R5 entry lists ;)
For the better and the worse...12 R5 among how many (20?) total entries?Quote:
Originally Posted by Andre Oliveira
FPAK must put aside R4 cars in order to revamp Gr.N championship, because there's no way a N4 car can compete with Lopes R4 Impreza.
2WD championship must be disputed only at the 6 national (continental) events in order to make it more affordable and the junior (iniciados) championship can have that same 6 events, to get a proper mix of tarmac and gravel rallyes.
Discussion moved to the Portuguese Championship tread (European National Championships sub-forum), since this one is for R5 cars ;)
Sorry for the off-topic non-Potuguese fellows
Even green rims look small in gravel spec ...
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CR7NkxfXIAAJTlU.jpg
I wonder if MEM & Proton would build Iriz R5..?
Ohhhh god nooooooooooooooooo! The car it's just awful and the base for a rallycar it's completely wrong, because of the low wheel archs and he tall body.... being to short as well.
I'd like to see the Satria S2000 fitted with a R5 engine on it.
Oh yes !! A Satria Neo R5 !!! :eek: <3Quote:
Originally Posted by TheFlyingTuga
Let's hoping Proton would make a 3rd gen Satria.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheFlyingTuga
Naturally since gravel rims are small...Quote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
WRC Spain Craig Breen
SS1 'Pop off valve strikes again'.
SS5 'Suspension trouble'
That 208 is a joke. :(
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CSAuV5TWIAAY4bJ.jpg:large
And at the same time four Fabias are leading the rally (at least until SS9)!Quote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
PSA is a joke..:PQuote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
I really like them, but I have got to agree... they don' tbuild 'em strong in the french vineyards!Quote:
Originally Posted by Arnold Triyudho Wardono
Only the 208 is a big failure. 207 S2000 was great!Quote:
Originally Posted by itix
True.. what they gained in looks they lost in reliability and speed hahahahaha
Just to put the tin-hat on it... :(
Craig Breen: Broken diff at start of SS10, all over..
Unfortunately our great speed once again doesn't end in a great result..
It's hard to say anything really. Popoff is something they can't solve it seems. As far as yesterday's suspension problem goes, I read it was a sealing that went dead, which is a maintenance and/or material failure. Drivetrain: the gearbox is already in its 3rd Evolution, rear diff has been updated as well. So either everybody involved in this project is useless, they have no money, or the car was not prepared well - again. I'd say it's somewhere between the three. But still surprised Famin was not fired after the sloppy product they had such high hopes for.
As Br21 stated before the pop-off valve issue is largely related to the position in the engine bay which definitely is a design flaw. Others spent hell of a time to minimize the issue before homologation. The 208 had a lot of design flaws since the beginning, maybe because the original designer of the car Bertrand Vallat went to Hyundai before the car was finished, who knows.
That's probably the case. Ok, there are technical flaws at this car project but some teams running with it have manage to minimize them, while others simply don't. Also some of Breen car reliability problems aren't related with those flaws at all.Quote:
Originally Posted by TWRC
A lot of 208T16 (and DS3R5, btw) are performing well around Europe, but due to the troublesome Sainteloc ERC and WRC participation, the overall perception is that this car it's a crap. That's not true!
For instance, Racing Lions Team record in Italy has been quite impressive: Andreucci and Peugeot are 2014 and 2015 champs; in 16 events, they have won 8 and retired only once. They've also achieved best PSA R5 car result at WRC2 in their first full attempt: 2nd at this year Rally d'Italia (only 5,6s away from 1st).
Perhaps it's time for Peugeot to look for another team to run their ERC/WRC2 program and turn the 208T16 into a international winner!
Maybe it's Sainteloc who is crap, not the 208T16...
Also, TRT in the Hungarian championship this year had barely to no problems with the car, and even managed to win 2 rallies. On the other hand, they had many-many problems with Koci's car in the WRC.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rally Power
And if Saintéloc is the source of many problems, wouldn't it be wise for Peugeot to step in? Because at this point they're not selling cars exactly because of the bad reputation the Academy cars get them. Or does Saintéloc work so cheap that it's still worth it?
Breen has a had a lot of technical problems in WRC2 but it's not true about ERC. That is correct only for 2014 but in 2015 his only serious technical problems were not really about car reliability (heavy landing in Estonia and driving with blocked radiator in Ypres).
Yep! They really should go to Italy and learn how to treat this fine piece of...french engineering!Quote:
Originally Posted by French_Paulo
https://youtu.be/EwLYIX5_RUQ
https://youtu.be/k14TiTlE-6A?list=PL...2G5PaqxvAd9FwP
https://youtu.be/wrpgRO0WL3w
Italians also showing better communication (and drama) skills!
I think all P208 T16 are crap. And I feel very sorry especially for Koci...best driver under 30 yo in middle europe. The only one exception is Ucci. Totally same story as Mini and one exception with Vaclav Pech.
Did the Swedes find the reason yet?Quote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
Nothing being reported yet...Quote:
Originally Posted by Sulland
Hopefully they will have sorted the problem before the next outing on Wales Rally GB.
Whatever that pic Eddie posted is, I can't see it but I would be very much interested in knowing what it shows...
It was just of the car with the service team.Quote:
Originally Posted by itix
There are now 3 confirmed Mitsu R5 entries on the National event at Wales Rally GB.