Rally2 (ex-R5) News

[WUff1]

Homologation of DS3 R5 will be postponed at least till 1st of April.

http://www.rallye-magazin.de/rallyes/in ... index.html

[br21]

Thanx Mirek, I wasn't able to find it.

[Mirek]

Judging by first five stages of Ciocco the impression was right and the 208 R5 seems to be a bit slow (at least for the moment). I know it's hard to compare with Basso's CNG car but Andreucci is reasonably slower than Nucita and Scandola with normal S2000 cars.

http://rally.ficr.it/tab_schedule.asp?p ... stazione=6

[br21]

At the moment when 208 starts officialy for first time, MSport finished building 50th Fiesta. They really gained a lot, lot of data during that year with many cars running in different conditions and improved the car a lot in recent months. 208 for sure will be competitive sooner than later, but clearly they need improving. They even recently made a lot of development tests, mainly in south France, but they have no comparision with competition.

[RS]

It looks like homologation of Peugeot 208 T16 by FIA was refused. Andreucci will start in Ciocco with national homologation.

FIA

Not FIAs fault if Peugeot didn't present a compliant car.

[Co-driven]

To date, Peugeot Sport has received 22 firm orders for the 208 T16: eight in Italy, five in France, three in the Czech Republic, two in Germany and one in Brazil, Denmark, Latvia and Belgium.

Italy: Paolo Andreucci
Czech Republic: Miroslav Jakes
Denmark: Christian Jensen
Brazil: Ilho dos Santos
Latvia: V. Gryazin
Belgium: Verschueren?

Anyone know the rest?

Brazilian driver Ilo Diehl dos Santos bought the 208 but he will compete only in Paraguay and the Codasur Championship.

[mousti]

Belgium is DG Sport.. Verscheuren his team GoDrive has ordered a DS3.

[RS]

Andreucci was better on day two in Ciocco, or maybe it was just because the other guys were cruising. Even so, wasn't Basso expected to be slower than normal because he was running gas?

[PLuto]

Even so, wasn't Basso expected to be slower than normal because he was running gas?

We dont know the rules under which Basso started. CNG car must have some changes, we dont know how big was restrictor etc. So it is not so much comparatable...

[Mirek]

Andreucci, leg 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Np0cFaW ... 6xRNeNla4A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKt_WXcZ ... 6xRNeNla4A