WRC Testing

[Fast Eddie WRC]

I'm sure Bryan is doing as many test days as he could afford to pay for.

Last season Evans always got just one test day in the 3rd Fiesta.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Citroen with Breen today and it isnt going well the moment





https://twitter.com/Traxx_WiF/status/953930366443769856

And thus the joys of social media! 10 minutes later we were back on the road, tricky tricky! https://t.co/PA3IEkpTlY

[SubaruNorway]

Last season Evans always got just one test day in the 3rd Fiesta.

I think i read somewhere that the old WRC costs around 500euro pr km if you count in everything so it's not cheap doing a 300km test day, although i guess they run the parts longer on the test car.

[Andre Oliveira]

Ogier by RemMcrae: https://youtu.be/J8dYQruRxHk

[Andre Oliveira]

Breen by Lolowrc05: https://youtu.be/KqsSG4NR5NM

[Alex009]

And if he had more money, he could have had two, too.

I don't think so, because teams have only 52(?) test days in season.

[spiderem]

I think i read somewhere that the old WRC costs around 500euro pr km if you count in everything so it's not cheap doing a 300km test day, although i guess they run the parts longer on the test car.

So you are saying that a test day would cost 150,000 euros?!? seems a bit out of proportion

[Tarmop]

Competition km`s for a privateer maybe? There`s a huge difference in the level of maintenance, who is doing it etc.
But nothing new imo, as the days are limited. I believe that last year 3. car/ DMack car also got less mileage on PET.

[tommeke_B]

I think i read somewhere that the old WRC costs around 500euro pr km if you count in everything so it's not cheap doing a 300km test day, although i guess they run the parts longer on the test car.

I think you've read a bad joke somewhere... I've heard for the later generation of 2L WRC cars it was around 200 euros/km. Sure it hasn't doubled for the first-gen 1.6T WRC cars, as they're less complicated.

[Mirek]

Depends whether You count running cost or rental cost. Afaik running cost of R5/S2000 cars used to be around 100 Eur/km when everything was as it shall be so that I believe that it had to be more than 200 Eur/km for WRC cars considering for example the price of engine revision which was roughly 3-4x more for Fiesta WRC (2012) than for Fabia S2000 or the gearbox which had 3x shorter rebuild period.