Rally2 (ex-R5) News

[Mirek]

It's VERY ironic that the reason for those fires is basically identical to the fires of Fabias from three years a go. One would expect otherwise...

[RS]

Weird, Althaus car from a few pages back looked pretty destroyed to me!

So what kind of time scale are we looking at to homologate any necessary changes and get the cars modified?

[Jarek Z]

If someone is very much interested in the Polo R5 problem - here is an analysis of all failures so far and an interview with Andre Dietzel and Gerard Jan De Jongh from Volkswagen Motorsport. The interview was made by the Polish edition of motorsport.com 10 days before Rally Portugal. Sorry, it's in Polish only:
https://pl.motorsport.com/wrc/news/p...ukces/4437552/

[dimviii]

If someone is very much interested in the Polo R5 problem - here is an analysis of all failures so far and an interview with Andre Dietzel and Gerard Jan De Jongh from Volkswagen Motorsport. The interview was made by the Polish edition of motorsport.com 10 days before Rally Portugal. Sorry, it's in Polish only:
https://pl.motorsport.com/wrc/news/p...ukces/4437552/

very worrying situation...

[Mirek]

I didn't know that Saba's car also lost the rear axle like Kajto's one in Argentina.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Remember this...

"Volkswagen Motorsport has defended the strength of its Polo R5 following the release of shocking pictures of the car at a recent test.
The pictures of the R5, circulating on social media, shows the complete rear axle of the Polo having broken away from the test car during testing in the south of France."

https://www.autosport.com/wrc/news/1...-testing-crash

[dimviii]

Remember this...

"Volkswagen Motorsport has defended the strength of its Polo R5 following the release of shocking pictures of the car at a recent test.
The pictures of the R5, circulating on social media, shows the complete rear axle of the Polo having broken away from the test car during testing in the south of France."

https://www.autosport.com/wrc/news/1...-testing-crash

thats why we havent got to swallow whatever says a driver or a team.
At this case they said that ''we were just testing over the limits of the spares life time''

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Also strange that all the photos of that car have disappeared from Twitter.

[RS]

If someone is very much interested in the Polo R5 problem - here is an analysis of all failures so far and an interview with Andre Dietzel and Gerard Jan De Jongh from Volkswagen Motorsport. The interview was made by the Polish edition of motorsport.com 10 days before Rally Portugal. Sorry, it's in Polish only:
https://pl.motorsport.com/wrc/news/p...ukces/4437552/

Really interesting article. Sounds like some of it is build quality issues but also some of it must be design issues. How did this not show up in testing? They did lots of kms so were they not testing on a good variety of roads, or were their testing processes wrong? Pretty surprising for a team which had been so successful in WRC.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

We've kept you waiting long enough so here it is, the all-new EcoBoost-powered Ford Fiesta R5. What do you think of our latest challenger? #FordPerformance #MSPORTERS https://t.co/vI3BlhLRro