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5th May 2020, 18:32 #541
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Can we leave the personal battles behind and move over to something else? Maybe even *sigh* discuss George Donaldson's idea of moving to R5's.
What Donaldson suggests is that they put a bigger restrictor to get more horsepower, and just reinforce the parts which wouldn't withstand the increased power. I'm not saying it's impossible, but sure not as simple as he makes it sound like.
If we think further, would Skoda join in as a manufacturer team? We know how great that car is, how much better than all the other cars. And would Toyota just drop out for a year while developing their R5 car? Would their drivers go to Skoda then? And what kind of a super team that would be...repeat of the VW era?
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5th May 2020, 18:59 #542
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5th May 2020, 19:00 #543
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5th May 2020, 19:19 #544
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I know we've talked about the R5+ idea before and this forum have written it off, but I'd love to know from someone who ran the actual M-Sport Fiesta R5+ (or someone from M-Sport) how exactly the costs compared to buying/running the regular R5. That wasn't just a case of running a larger air restrictor, there were some mechanical differences, but they weren't extensive. When I asked someone at Goodwood a few years ago who was running one, I was told there wasn't too big a difference in the costs involved between that and the R5. As a spectator though I wasn't really in a position to ask for a breakdown of the costs! I've haven't got the impression that the R5+ Fiesta has been particularly unreliable, though nobody has been trying to get 400bhp out of one...
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5th May 2020, 19:44 #545
Yes they don't have an active factory team all but in name , VW are still developing this car which could be run as a satellite team by any number of teams.
Regardless of this I reckon the future will be very different to what we have know in the past not just in motorsport.
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5th May 2020, 19:55 #546
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Sorry, not going to reply to the points you've made. I get what you're saying about it becoming tiresome and yes, I have a part in that, but you've answered on Eddie's behalf and I still don't see it differently than I did initially. But in the interest of it not getting any more tiresome, happy to leave it.
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5th May 2020, 21:09 #547
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R5+ Fiesta is/was quite reliable car, didn't have any special weak points, and it was not developed that much, so some improvements are easily possible. Of course mileage of components was way lower. Even 2.0l R5+ was quite reliable car, without any especially big weak point.
And R5+ like it is now (based on Evo2 engine) is faster than 2016 WRC car.
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5th May 2020, 21:18 #548
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This whole R5+ concept is unfamiliar to me and it's difficult to obtain information on it. According to this the Fiesta R5+ has 30 BHP more than the normal Fiesta R5, so we would be talking around 320 BHP. This is far less than going to 400 BHP like George Donaldson suggested.
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6th May 2020, 06:43 #549
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R5 was replaced to Rally2 over 4 months ago...
R5+ is marketing name that has been used by Msport only and for older model Fiesta. Or is there R5+ version of New Fiesta R5 ?
Skoda produces only Rally2 cars, others do still R5 cars.
At first we must decide what that new "R5+WRC" means
-what kind of engine?
-restrictor?
-turbo size?
-how many gears?
-stick or paddle sifts?
-diffs?
-how wide? (WRC17 safety cockpit is way wider than R5 one, FIA is not going to go back on safety standards)
-is titanium allowed?
-aerodynamics?
Right now term "R5+" means different thing to different people. For me it´s illegal national old model Fiesta R5"quattro best 4wd rallycar ever"
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6th May 2020, 06:48 #550
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OK, can you ease a bit with that Rally2/R5 talk, it's a bit tiring to hear all over. We all know what we're talking about when we say R5.
I also think R5+ is only an M-Sport kit for the first model of Fiesta R5 which adds paddle shift, rear wing and turbo restrictor. Then there's also some 2.0L version? For sure they are not illegal, but just not complying to FIA regulations.
The way I see George Donaldson's idea is the cars would be just as R5, but with a bigger restrictor to get more power, and then through testing we would find out which parts need to be reinforced for rallying use. No paddle shift, same engine, same 5 gear box, same diffs, same aero, same width etc. If you start changing them radically, it's already losing its meaning for cost savings. The 2022 cars were anyway going to have simpler aero, gearbox and diffs.
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How would any of the proposed changes from this silly working group have changed ANY of that in 2025 or 2026?
WRC main class in 2025