[WRC] News & rumours (part II)

I always believed the EVO 6.5 was the name of the road going EVO that was dubbed as the Tommi Makinen edition.
I thought it was just an up-speced EVO 6 and had no relevance to what the rally car of the time was like.

Evo 6 & 6,5 were full A-group cars. Evo 7 was firts car made on WRC regulations.

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Originally Posted by Coach 2

Did not Mitsu get disp to convert Evo 6 to WRC, and thereby allowed to rebuild Suspension rear (making it longer) but because of this conversion had to the blind bottom of the rear wing, as it was not allowed with more than one floor on the wing. This disp resulted in the name 6.5

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Could they have changed the rear wing to suit the rules?

Henning confirmed for Rally Finnskog in a Evo 6.5 things are also looking better for the future.

Henning Solberg kjører Finnskog med ex-Mäkinen Mitsubishi

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Originally Posted by mousti

Officially it was never called a WRC but it was as powerfull as a WRC car. Though it depends the Evo 6.5 from Henning is an former works car that Makinnen drove. Tommi was the only one who drove that car with naming isn't it? Loix drove at the time with Carisma GT as naming and think it was just the same spec car like Tommi's. Toni did some rounds in it too.

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Its definitely a WRC car officially. Only three cars of the Evo 6.5 WRC were built, based on the Evo 6 Group A car, as an interim model. The car that Henning Solberg now has bought back is the car Tommi Mäkinen won the 2001 Swedish Rally with. Henning had the car in 2003 and drove it in Finland and also in the gravel rounds of the norwegian championship, winning the final round Rally Hedmarken. The car has had two more owners, and especially Bernhard Kongsrud was successful on national level with it. Henning is happy with being reunited with this car, as it has a very interesting history. He is driving the Rally Finnskog mostly for fun, but also to get some snow practice before the Swedish Rally.

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Originally Posted by Iskald

Its definitely a WRC car officially. Only three cars of the Evo 6.5 WRC were built, based on the Evo 6 Group A car, as an interim model. The car that Henning Solberg now has bought back is the car Tommi Mäkinen won the 2001 Swedish Rally with. Henning had the car in 2003 and drove it in Finland and also in the gravel rounds of the norwegian championship, winning the final round Rally Hedmarken. The car has had two more owners, and especially Bernhard Kongsrud was successful on national level with it. Henning is happy with being reunited with this car, as it has a very interesting history. He is driving the Rally Finnskog mostly for fun, but also to get some snow practice before the Swedish Rally.

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Tommi didn´t win the 2001 Swedish Rally. It was Harry Rovanpera who won after Tommi went off the road on the last stage after running flat out trying to catch Rovanpera. Remember the video of him going of and broke a tree in very snowy conditions? However it was great times. In the 2001 SR we remember Colin and Richard Burns going off on the first day and then with no pressure drove like no one ever did on the swedish narrow winterroads on day two and three.

Was that the car Henning drove against the bobsleigh at Lillehammer?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zKgaXwO8Ao

Pretty sure , yeah

Another great stuff by Top Gear guys.

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Originally Posted by wwbroe

Another great stuff by Top Gear guys.

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they have nice ideas..... but 99% of them have "staged" results aimming towards retarded people...