The return of the Audi Quattro Rally car

[AnttiL]

https://www.ewrc-results.com/cars/14...&sct=&w=#stats

Yes. it's a Rally2 Kit (previously known as R4 Kit).

The fact that there's already several Audi A1's built with the Oreca kit makes the Ekström news more ridiculous...

[Andre Oliveira]

Very ridiculous.

[Jarek Z]

Rally2-Kit

And people start writing Rally2 Kit Car... oh god

Modern rally world is a land of confusion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlBIa8z_Mts

[cali]

Rally2-Kit

And people start writing Rally2 Kit Car... oh god

That's what I'm telling, it's friggin confusing

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[Mirek]

Rally2-Kit

And people start writing Rally2 Kit Car... oh god

The people who know what Kit Cars were, will not cofuse it and for the rest it doesn't really matter. Kit Cars are just a distant history for most of the people.

[Damian Baldi]

The R4 cars are good, the problem is the price, and as somebody said before, there is not a car brand pushing to grow, just Oreca trying to sell kits. The other problem is that the R4 cars are into the Rally2 class and have to compete against the R5 cars.

The solution could be to create a CUP into the Rally2 class only for R4 cars, so this way the drivers are competing for something and could get a prix. In other words, FIA should try to do something like Spain and Italy are doing with the N5 cars.

[AnttiL]

The R4 cars are good, the problem is the price, and as somebody said before, there is not a car brand pushing to grow, just Oreca trying to sell kits. The other problem is that the R4 cars are into the Rally2 class and have to compete against the R5 cars.

The solution could be to create a CUP into the Rally2 class only for R4 cars, so this way the drivers are competing for something and could get a prix. In other words, FIA should try to do something like Spain and Italy are doing with the N5 cars.

It's a bit of chicken and egg situation. Why create a cup when there's no drivers? Or why buy/build a car when there's no cup/championship to participate in?

[Jarek Z]

It's a bit of chicken and egg situation. Why create a cup when there's no drivers? Or why buy/build a car when there's no cup/championship to participate in?

Such cars can compete in ERC2. This category was created for group N cars, but it also includes Rally2 kits now:
https://www.fiaerc.com/suzuki-motor-...swift-r4lly-s/

[PLuto]

I have just read that there is another Audi A1 rally car. Enrico Windisch is going to drive it in Blaufränkischland Rallye (Austria) tomorrow. It looks a little different than Ekstrom's car and it is called Audi A1 R4, but I think it is also Rally2 Kit. Look at no. 20 on the entry list:
http://www.blaufraenkischlandrallye....nennliste.html

https://cdn-1.motorsport.com/images/...-hubert-au.jpg

This is not new car, it was competing last year also.

[PLuto]

Such cars can compete in ERC2. This category was created for group N cars, but it also includes Rally2 kits now:
https://www.fiaerc.com/suzuki-motor-...swift-r4lly-s/

It looks like there will be more Rally2-kit cars in ERC2 this year. And some others were planning to build it, but when FIA is slightly killing this category, I am not sure if they will build it.