[WRC] News & rumours (part IV) 2016

[USER47]

I think Prokop might do quite well in WRC2 with R5 car. He's not the fastest driver around, but he's experienced and doesn't make a lot of mistakes. Plus he's used to higher tempo of his WRC car, so he might not be afraid to push R5 to its limit.

I don't know much about ERC, but he's already shown he can get into new kinds of races pretty quickly. He finished his very first Dakar in 14th place and now he even did decent times in 12h endurance circuit race in Italy. Jumping into ERC probably wouldn't be much of an issue and I believe he is good enough driver to get on the podium at least in some events.

[pantealex]

I don't know much about ERC, but he's already shown he can get into new kinds of races pretty quickly. He finished his very first Dakar in 14th place

and slow Hirvonen was 4th (and Loeb also inside top10)

[USER47]

I'd say finishing 5 places behind the most successful rally driver ever is quite a success for Prokop. Someone like Loeb would totally destroy the competition in ERC or WRC2, Prokop is obviously not as good, but he could still be very competitive there.

[dimviii]

Μsport launches vp racing fuels specially for r5 fiesta.This man knows his job better than anybody.

http://www.m-sport.co.uk/m-sport-new...p-racing-fuels

[Arnold Triyudho Wardono]

Does Skoda & PSA siblings also have their own fuels..?

[jbmarcus21]

Hayden Paddon launch NEW Zealand Rally Team ➡ http://goo.gl/Eg5D8A

[pantealex]

Hayden Paddon launch NEW Zealand Rally Team ➡ http://goo.gl/Eg5D8A

Official NZ team uses old model i20, stupid!
Car is RightHandDrive.

[Arnold Triyudho Wardono]

That's AP4 version..(with 1.8L engine)

[dimviii]

any news from French speaking mates?

[Mk2 RS2000]

Official NZ team uses old model i20, stupid!
Car is RightHandDrive.

Briefly,
The countries of the Asia Pacific region drive on the left hand side of the road hence right hand drive.

Current version of the i20 on sale in NZ is the "old" model, no sense in building a car that does not have any spare parts available, especially body panels & lights etc.

My understanding is that new version of the i20 is not planned for NZ sale and that the i20 will be withdrawn from the market while Hyundai concentrate on the sales of the i30 and the Santa Fe which are amongst the market leaders. These are both more suitable for our body size and style of living / working than "Grandma" cars used for pottering around town.

I am sure that the promotion will be all about the brand Hyundai and not about any model in particular.