National Rally championships News

[eloyf1]

I thought he didn't like the S2000s and prefered GTs in spanish championship

Fusty looks pretty nice tarmac spec. How many other S2000s in the Spanish Tarmac series next year and is anyone still running GT3 machinery?

Porsche are very difficult to drive, as you can imagine, and among frontrunners, the only driver that has proven he could win with one of them was Vallejo (Fuster won only because of others' problems, we must be realistic...).

But as Nupel wanted to jump into the WRC, and having an own climbing ladder, they talked with Ford. That's why they have changed from having three different marques (Porsche, Mitsubishi and Ford), to only one, Ford: they have the lended Fiesta S2000 (Pons) for SWRC+Catalunya+Príncipe, two Fiesta S2000 bought for National Championship for Vallejo and Muñiz, and two other Fiesta R2 for their young guns.

For the moment we'll have four S2000: 2 Nupel's Fiesta, the official Fabia for Hevia, and the one for Pérez. As we are in silly season, there are lots of changes and rumours every week... but there should be one or two other S2000.

GT machinery, well... Fuster owns his Porsche, so he should continue with it, but the main problem is that Costa Brava (Well, only in dry conditions) and Shalymar, two rallyes that fitted well to GT cars, are out. If Fuster already had problems to adapt himself to his 911 GT3 this season, next year things only could get worse. Aviñó and Entrecanales could enter selected meetings, if they don't sell their 911, and López Fombona will try to do something with his 350Z... I think that's all, if we except local GT machinery (Concepción in Canary Islands).

[Ciko]

Norbert Herczig will drive a Fabia S2000 in the Hungarian Championship!
The car owner is the Skoda Rally Team Italia, but will be serviced by Aimont Racing.

http://www.duen.hu/hir.php?o=hirek&id=3720

[jolle1982]

its not allowed to drive an wrc in hungaria this year?

[Ciko]

its not allowed to drive an wrc in hungaria this year?

It's allowed, but doesn't count in the points.

[jolle1982]

thanks! i hope there a lot of s2000 cars to veszprem rallye 2010!

[urabus-denoS2000]

Quite sad but that's the logical way forward,it had to happane once

Are all A8 cars banned or just WRC? (I can see the title going to one of those old monstrous Evo VI like the one of Hideg )

[Ciko]

Quite sad but that's the logical way forward,it had to happane once

Are all A8 cars banned or just WRC? (I can see the title going to one of those old monstrous Evo VI like the one of Hideg )

WRC and A8 too.

Hideg will switch to a Grp.N Evo IX.

[bluuford]

Ott Tänak has won the first round in Estonian Championship just a few minutes ago. It was really crazy win, because he won in front of WRcar by 0.3 seconds. He was driving Gr N Subaru and closest Gr N rival was 56.2 seconds behind (Egon Kaur).
Detailed results here: http://autosport.ee/rallyreg/?page=3...d=0&lang_id=2&

[Pille]

Ott Tänak has won the first round in Estonian Championship

A few pics from Võru rally: http://www.rallifotod.eu/album235/fotod.html

[bluuford]

It is also worth mentioning that second was Georg Gross with Focus WRC who appears next weekend in Arctic rally with the same car. And another interesting fact is that the temperature at the beginning of the rally was approximately -31 degrees Celsius:-)