Rally2 (ex-R5) News

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@RallyingUK
VOLKSWAGEN POLO GTI R5: The new @volkswagenms Polo GTI R5 has been testing in Wales today with @PontusTidemand at the wheel #WRC2 #FIAERC

[nafpaktos]

There is lot of teams/drivers interested in buying Polo. But manufacturer will be choosing very precisely who will receive first cars...

Pluto i would like to ask you what do you think about this project.I mean do you believe that a car without official team to the rallies(either erc or wrc) can beat cars running under official teams?The two best cars ford and skoda are running with full support.See what happen to peugeot,citroen,hyundai.Why this venture should have different fate?

[WRC1]

i belive there will be (as pluto said) very few, very precisley choosen teams such as BRR to run the cars....and such Teams can for sure beat cars run directly from factory!

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Colin Clark‏*
@voiceofrally
Fabulous morning watching the @volkswagenms Polo GTI R5 being out through its paces by @PontusTidemand in Wales. Video to follow shortly

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Polo looking very similar to the Fabia using the same test camouflage and has the same central exhaust:

[Fast Eddie WRC]

@BowenDale
Found a rally car testing in the woods in Wales!

https://twitter.com/BowenDale/status/938767905969205248


Polo tarmac test last week, if not posted before ...
http://www.racecar.com/News/87528/Mo...en-Polo-GTI-R5

[Mirek]

Polo looking very similar to the Fabia using the same test camouflage and has the same central exhaust:

While I am sure that Polo takes something from Fabia (just like the WRC took a lot from the S2000) it's not the things visible from outside. Polo is larger and has much longer wheelbase. Moreover it's built on different platform and therefore it's not just about placing the existing things into the new body and develop them further.

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[PLuto]

Pluto i would like to ask you what do you think about this project.I mean do you believe that a car without official team to the rallies(either erc or wrc) can beat cars running under official teams?The two best cars ford and skoda are running with full support.See what happen to peugeot,citroen,hyundai.Why this venture should have different fate?

I am sure that R5 cars can be in very good condition in private hands. I think that Gemini Citroen DS3 R5 was better than any other factory car. I think that Fabias of BRR or Kresta Racing are on similar level like factory cars. So with private cars you can beat factory cars. But there are different issues - if you are going with factory, you have lot of kms of testing before events, you have almost no limits with changing spare parts etc. I think that is the biggest difference between privateer and factory driver...

Not so big success of Peugeot, Citroen or Hyundai is from different reasons, for me. Peugeot and Citroen had bad reputation from beginning and they had (and still have) issues which are not working at all. With the Hyundai it is different story - I think that factory made a mistake with "promotion" - there is not enough strong drivers who should show the potential of the car...

[PLuto]

i belive there will be (as pluto said) very few, very precisley choosen teams such as BRR to run the cars....and such Teams can for sure beat cars run directly from factory!

As next year there will be build only very limited number of cars and interest is really huge, they have a chance to choose. So primary they will deliver the cars to big teams like BRR or to the teams with official dealership support and also to strong markets... When they will make more cars, it will go also to other teams...