Rally2 (ex-R5) News

[Andre Oliveira]

https://twitter.com/ALavadinho/status/4 ... 29/photo/1

Today at sardegna, unknown driver

[RICARDO75]

Probably Sébastien Chardonet

[noel157]

Meeke was testing yesterday, not sure WRC or R5 or where but that was why driver announcement was brought forward.

[Tom206wrc]

Probably Sébastien Chardonet

On a french rally forum I've read it was Alexandre Bengué

[dimviii]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAnn0Ay1BVA

[Sulland]

What are the differences btw the 208 and DS3 R5s?
The engine will be the same, and I guess the suspension and brakes?
But what about physical measurements of chassis and so on, any differences there?

[br21]

M-Sport already finished assembling 35 Fiesta R5 cars.
Way over 50 cars ordered.

[liposh]

On 1st July there were 6 cars Fiesta R5 ready ,right? It means another 29 cars in 5,5 months. Even if Fiesta would be the worst of R5 cars it is great business success of Malcolm Wilson and Skoda and slower brands (Opel, ?Renault? etc.) will have a little problems because of that. I know some people would say strategy of Skoda is different to Malcolm´s, but I think Skoda puts into both projects a huge amount of money, all Skoda motorsport workers do their best but in my opinion the Skoda-motorsport publicity is bad in many small points.

[Mirek]

I think that You don't get how it works. It's not Your family car which You buy for many years. It's a competitive machine and once it's slow it's replaced. Look at Abarth. When Škoda came with the S2000 in 2009 Abarths were on the market for two years. There was plenty of them but they disappeared very quickly.

[makinen_fan]

Is it possible for M-Sport to homologate a new version of R5 in 1-2 years when (and if) the competition makes the Fiesta the slowest of them all? Are there any restrictions by FIA on evolutions for R5, similar to WRC cars?