New R4 Car - Think Tank

[Mirek]

For sure it's premature to ask all these, but in spain N5's already won gravel rallyes (using a 34mm restrictor) and even the fact of being less competitive than R5's on tarmac didn't stopped Renault Spain to make a N5 Clio (actually, Fuster will start it next weekend).

That's not comparable at all, sorry. R5 have 32 mm restrictor and there is no chance that R4 would get same or even bigger one as it would make no sense. The aim of creating R4 was to replace N4 not to add competition to R5. Based on the rumors the contrary is going to happen as it looks like R5 will be made even faster (and more expensive).

By the way from 32 to 34 mm is roughly 10-15% of extra power which is quite huge difference.

[Rally Power]

The aim of creating R4 was to replace N4 (...)

For sure, but knowing how expensive R4's will be and seeing these 3D images, one can ask if Oreca's aim is still to replace N4 or to propose a new rally category to manus...time will tell.

[Mirek]

About that I would say this

Don't repair what is not broken.

But who am I. FIA already killed several successful formulas in the past in the name of something new and better.

[Sulland]

The list of authorized Spanish tuners wasn’t yet published. For now, RMC and ARVidal are the only ones and N5 price still’s a secret (has been rumored to be around €150.000).

What did the N5 price end up at in the end?

[Zeakiwi]

Is N5 based on the Argentinian Maxi rally car? If so I would expect it to be a similar cost?
The RMC Motorsport website has a contact form with just N (R2, R4 etc) listed as car types.

As well as a construction/ purchase price, a running cost per season for the area/ events a competitor is going to take part should also be factored in a competition budget. (and all the other variable costs - sponsorship, event entry fees, travel/ accommodation costs, contingency fund for engine/ transmission failures) etc.

[Rally Power]

What did the N5 price end up at in the end?

Hard to say. ARV doesn’t sell their Suzuki’s (they’re the brand official tuner) and the handful made by RMC (including the 208’s, one Fiesta and one DS3) were sold to privateers but the final price remained unknown. Btw, apparently RMC asked local ASN to allow a bigger turbo and a 36mm restrictor, but it was refused.

[fegh]

https://youtu.be/ZQDeZBUZPrY

I found this video of a test for the clio n5, is it a 1.6 or 2.0 l engine?

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[Andre Oliveira]

1.6 Turbo PSA

[Mirek]

Yes, 1.6 EP6FDTR from Peugeot 308 GTi.

[fegh]

Thanks guys, so the same one that will be used for the R4. Would be Interesting to have the price of the N5 and compare.

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