Rally2 (ex-R5) News

**pantealex** · 7th May 2021, 08:02

Originally Posted by Mirek

No, it's not. Octavia I was nearly half a meter longer.

Wheelbase of new Fabia is longer than Octavia had...

**lmmjvss** · 20th May 2021, 19:31

what was the last time a "factory team" won the erc? (I mean... is it really allowed to run a factory car in rally2/r5 in erc?) Cuz I just started to follow it and it seems to me that the winner is just a privateer in almost all the occasions.

**focus206** · 20th May 2021, 20:32

Works Skoda team won the title in 2012 (Hanninen), 2013 (Kopecky) and 2014 (Lappi).
Before them, works FIAT Abarth team won it in 2009 (Basso) and 2010 (Rossetti).
But actual works team are rather rare in ERC, national works teams like Skoda Hungary or Citroen Spain are more common.

**Jarek Z** · 24th May 2021, 21:23

Like others have said it's quite rare for works teams to compete in ERC, but such situations did happen several times. An interesting example was Bruno Thiry, who was competeing in ERC 2000 with works Citroen Xsara Kit Car, but... lost the championship to Henrik Lundgaard from Toyota Team Denmark!

Photo of Thiry's car:
https://www.ewrc-results.com/image/315442/

**Ucci** · 25th May 2021, 08:02

Originally Posted by Jarek Z

Photo of Thiry's car:
https://www.ewrc-results.com/image/315442/

What a space shuttle....

**Jarek Z** · 25th May 2021, 10:35

Kit cars were great, weren't they?

https://www.ewrc.cz/images/2000/osta...s/F1000024.jpg

**mknight** · 6th June 2021, 22:04

Any update on the new I20 Rally2 homologation/first start?

Saw that Adamo's target in March was 1. July.

**pantealex** · 7th June 2021, 05:44

Originally Posted by mknight

Any update on the new I20 Rally2 homologation/first start?

Saw that Adamo's target in March was 1. July.

For WRC target is/was Rally Estonia, maybe some smaller Rally before that ?

**br21** · 7th June 2021, 08:43

Originally Posted by mknight

Any update on the new I20 Rally2 homologation/first start?

Saw that Adamo's target in March was 1. July.

it's postponed month or two

**mknight** · 7th June 2021, 09:16

As br21 surely knows that's a bit of a blow to any WRC2 title challenge from Solberg/Huttunen cause in Estonia that combination with new car would be really strong.

But as far as I understand Rally2/R5 is hard to change much after homologation so it's much better to get it right as it should be sold for a few years rather than getting it out a month or so earlier.