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30th April 2019, 21:10 #5651Senior Member
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Another VW Polo R5 failure?
After unexpected problems in Argentina Kajto decided to withdraw his entry from Rally Chile. His fight for victory in Rally Argentina was scuppered by a failure. Problems with the car, not related to the company which prepares and services the car, need to be resolved.
- I decided that we will take part in one of the forthcoming rallies when the car manufacturer provides safe and permanent solutions to genuine problems - says Kajto.
More details at Kajto's website:
http://kajto.pl/en/news/2019-world-r...-kajetanowicz/http://www.rallymadness.prv.pl - rally photos and movies!
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30th April 2019, 21:19 #5652Senior Member
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Crikey. Shows how difficult it is to build a good R5 car when even VW, with all their WRC success, struggle with reliability problems.
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30th April 2019, 21:25 #5653Senior Member
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Could it be that all those teams and drivers, who were placing orders for Polos R5 before it was even homologated, were buying a pig in a poke?
http://www.rallymadness.prv.pl - rally photos and movies!
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1st May 2019, 08:42 #5654Senior Member
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Of course you can sell the parts and if not directly in Poland for sure you can do that accross the border in Ukraine.
Originally Posted by JUF
How dumb you have to be to steal a pretty rare car like a rally car? What did they want to do? Selling parts via eBay
?Stupid is as stupid does. Forrest Gump
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1st May 2019, 08:53 #5655Senior Member
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Well, you're probably better informed than me, so I guess you´re right. But as an owner of a Fiesta R5 don't you buy the parts directly from M-Sport? Originally Posted by Mirek
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1st May 2019, 11:24 #5656Senior Member
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The rich teams do but plenty of others don't. It's same like with stock cars.
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They should've left the R5 market to their sister company... Originally Posted by RS
I bet Škoda are having a chuckle at them
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1st May 2019, 13:46 #5658Senior Member
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The motorsport department which VW built has to be used for something and the R5 projects have proved they can be self-feeding or even profitable.
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Kopecky test crash in new Fabia R5...
https://twitter.com/PeAChapaRacing/s...53014877491200#M-SPORTER
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Ouch, that's a bad one. Presume crew ok?
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