Rally 3 class

[Sulland]

There was a Fiesta Rally3 in a rallysprint last weekend that run without a restrictor, and it was said it had around 260hp

was that one of the cars running in Poland?

[ictus]

Yep, that one to be exact:
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[Mirek]

Was not the PSA first engine 270-275?

Wait, I thought R5s were already around 280 hp..

Fiesta R5 (not an Evo) had nearly 300 Hp.

€177,000 for 263hp in R4/Rally2-Kit versus €100,000 for 235hp in Rally3.

Rally2-Kit is a dead end.

[AnttiL]

The performance of a rally car has more factors than just BHP.

[Sulland]

Fiesta R5 (not an Evo) had nearly 300 hp

The 2013 model without any jokers?

[Mirek]

The 2013 model without any jokers?

Without any jokers, yes, but there were some smaller engine modifications applied already during the first year of use and in retrospective you can't be sure what exactly was installed or not some 7-8 years ago.

[Sulland]

Ok, Mirek I stand corrected, my memory fail me, again!

How potent is the best Rally2 engine today?

[Jarek Z]

Yep, that one to be exact:
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That is Adam Sroka. I have just found a video from his pre-event test, where he says (in the description of the video) that the size of the restrictor is 30mm. Maybe they changed it for the rally?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDn89uaDdLQ

[Mirek]

How potent is the best Rally2 engine today?

I don't know but the peak power figure won't be that much different, probably somewhere around 310-320 Hp, the main difference is the shape of the power curve (when speaking about engines alone). When Fiesta Evo came in 2017 it offered nearly no difference in the peak power but at certain lower rpm the difference was over 30 Hp.

[Jarek Z]

M-Sport are testing Ford Fiesta Rally3 with Jon Armstrong in Hungary:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUpU5vm2uEw