[WRC] News & rumours (part III)

[bluuford]

They found that Dakar is even less worth the money they spent. The event lasts 3 weeks (rest of the year is empty) and if I remember correctly, then their budget was the same as now. And basically, there was no competition at all for them. And finally, the event took place in the countries where the market of their new cars is minor. Current talk is just to put some perssure on media stakeholders.

[stefanvv]

Apart from the fact that all programmes get signed off by the VW Motorsport group - which meets throughout the year to discuss progress.

There is no VW Motorsport group, there is only VW Group which is the cap for all motorsport divisions in the Company brands.

[dodge33cymru]

Audi have already rubbished the F1 rumour in fairly convincing style.

[Barreis]

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/116515

[bluuford]

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/116515

Heh.. it is really funny/controversial that Ogier won so easily in Spain thanks to the fact that he was first on the road for the first day:-)

[Frostmourne]

Heh.. it is really funny/controversial that Ogier won so easily in Spain thanks to the fact that he was first on the road for the first day:-)

Sorry, did not follow Spain rally. What was the advantage to be first in the road for the first day in Spain?

[Quad]

Sorry, did not follow Spain rally. What was the advantage to be first in the road for the first day in Spain?

Yep. Only he could saw the road

[Sulland]

Why not use the 2T Bombardier engine used in Evinrude outboards in cars. How would that do? The Evinrude beats the 4T outboards everytime in power, effeciency etz!

There was a snowmobile tuner in the US in the late 90s that put a rotax/ ski-doo engine in a racecar, including the variator gearing (CVT). Modern 2 strokes are beautiful machines!
And the norwegian Shortcar class uses 4 stroke mc engines with success!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpXhRhaKsU4

[VFTS]

Sorry, did not follow Spain rally. What was the advantage to be first in the road for the first day in Spain?

He was the only one that didnt have any dust in his sight. It was a huge problem for all the others.

[vino_93]

French newspaper Autohebdo reveals that Eric Camilli, Stéphane Lefebvre, Kevin Abbring, Pontus Tidemand, and Teemu Suninen tested for Toyota after the Rally Catalunya. They used GT86 R3, and Toyota is planning to enter two cars in WRC3 next year.
Then Toyota tested the Yaris WRC, but I don't know if the young guns tested it, or if the usual test drivers where there ...