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The spaceframe cars shall be much easier to repair than the steel bodyshells. I'm not surprised.

Pretty weird first name for Petr :D:D:D

Most likely it's a name of a street. There is number of them here and they are named after fortress/concentration camp Tererezín.

Jan Verney... lol, it's Černý :D

That would be rather stupid thing to do.

Both options are possible.

Yes but the deals don't come themselves. There is a lot of work behind that and a lot of connections and usually things don't just go easy and well. For sure M-Sport can't be in a position of the...

I think you omit the main reason - results. The main factor in getting sponsorship deals is offering them success. Without top driver there isn't reasonable success which would attract the sponsors.

This is IMHO relatively simple. If they had a top car they would not miss a top driver.

Guys, don't forget that Gus won Monte Carlo in WRC2...

I'm pretty sure that he won't be travelling to UK to do the same job as in Škoda. Besides that I feel like he doesn't want to drive anything in the future.

I just got an important info...

It is possible to upgrade this R1 to a full-spec. R2.

That brings the situation even further than Opel managed. It allows this car for a young driver to grow...

Adam cup car has also Sadev sequential gearbox.

EDIT: Maybe You meant the Adam, right?

Thanks, Opel made some modifications to make it cheaper at the cost of it not being FIA eligible car (fuel tank for example).

For a reason. The car is way better equipped than the DS3 R1.



Well, this car is actually close to the Adam Cup philosophy which actually worked pretty good. I wouldn't write it off. Having a...

Yes, I don't think they do any reasonable profit (if any) of the car sale alone. What makes the profit is the spare parts and the after sale services. It is indeed a profitable business. At least for...

Not all cars are sold to the customers but the production capacity of Škoda is 80 cars a year and it has been steadily kept so for a couple of years. Based on their comments there are no plans to...

Except that it's not few at all. 40 cars/year is pretty high number. Škoda produces twice the amount but among the rest it's currently second highest production rate I believe.

Look at it from the other side - M-Sport is late with the new R5 but it won two WRC titles! For sure the R5 market loss hurts but I'm quite sure that Malcolm Wilson and the rest of M-Sport guys would...

Gosh, You're long enough in the sport to know that the date when the bodyshell was first used has very little to do with the stuff actually packed in it. FYI it was absolutely normal for Loeb to...

Do You mean damper supplier?

The funny thing is that the parts which must come from stock market can come from anywhere. At some points I think that nearly all cars had Garrett turbocharger from BMW M5.

You spoke about engines and I am pretty sure the new Fiesta ST engine won't be a base for R5 engine.



Most likely it has to do a lot with the amount of work spent on WRC car development.

Sorry that I didn't read all the discussion (I'm ill and don't have the mood for that) but if You were trying to prove that Fiesta WRC engine is stock-based You just proved otherwise because no stock...

I thought that the main issue with the stock Mini block (same with PSA R5 cars) was that it was a long-stroke 1.6 engine which means that the cylinders are very narrow and You can't fit large valves...

No, they don't. If I am not mistaken the only WRC car with stock block since the introduction of 1.6T cars in 2011 was Mini and it was proven to be a wrong decision. Others use specific engines built...