Rally2 (ex-R5) News

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Ireland, the former heartland of the Fiesta R5, is now dominated by the Polo, i20 and lately the Citroen C3.

On the current West Cork Intl Rally the highest placed Ford is a Mk2 Escort !

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Sounds like M-Sport are determined to fight back and improve the Fiesta..

Asked how much of the British championship Adrien Fourmaux will do, Wilson said: “It’s still up for discussion but there’s no question we want to improve and make the car even more competitive, so for sure we will definitely do the next round.

“We’ve got some tests planned in Ireland coming up quite soon so we want to just try and basically make sure we can keep the Rally2 Fiesta competitive.

“We want to try and give Adrien as much seat time as possible and keep on developing and improving the car.”

[PLuto]

Sounds like M-Sport are determined to fight back and improve the Fiesta..

Asked how much of the British championship Adrien Fourmaux will do, Wilson said: “It’s still up for discussion but there’s no question we want to improve and make the car even more competitive, so for sure we will definitely do the next round.

“We’ve got some tests planned in Ireland coming up quite soon so we want to just try and basically make sure we can keep the Rally2 Fiesta competitive.

“We want to try and give Adrien as much seat time as possible and keep on developing and improving the car.”

Developing and improving the car? 4 years later than it should be...

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Developing and improving the car? 4 years later than it should be...

A financially-devasating pandemic, runnng a WRC Team and creating a new Rally1 car all had an impact on this.

Plus most other Rally2 manufacturers only had that car to concentrate on (Skoda, VW Polo, Citroen C3).

Edit: Fourmaux is confident of the Fiesta's potential...

https://www.wrc.com/en/news/2023/wrc...ly2s-potental/

[Fast Eddie WRC]

New Yaris Rally2 tarmac test...

https://youtu.be/AJR8fhnscHU

[Jarek Z]

Good to see Kris Meeke again
https://www.facebook.com/motorsports...6018954322829/

[RS]

Big week for new Fabia RS Rally2. Kopecky finally makes a start in one at the first event of the Czech Championship (there was an idea he’d start in one at Barum last year but it didn’t happen), Mikkelsen also makes his first international-ish start on Azores and Loeb gets a go too.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Big week for new Fabia RS Rally2. Kopecky finally makes a start in one at the first event of the Czech Championship (there was an idea he’d start in one at Barum last year but it didn’t happen), Mikkelsen also makes his first international-ish start on Azores and Loeb gets a go too.

Kopecky could probably win in a Czech event driving a Skoda 130 !

Azores Rally may be more testing for the new car with Moura and Solans both driving the old Fabia Evo...

[RS]

Kopecky could probably win in a Czech event driving a Skoda 130 !

Azores Rally may be more testing for the new car with Moura and Solans both driving the old Fabia Evo...

Well much as I'd like to see Kopecky in an old 130, and yes he usually does win, guys like Mares and Pech are pretty quick at home so it won't be easy.

Toksport have a pretty stellar lineup for Azores (WRC1 worthy) but yes, Azores should be one of the best type of events for the old car being so tight and narrow.

[mknight]

I wonder who is paying for the Azores starts. I don't think any of those two are bringing funds.

Azores organizers to try to get the rally back to ERC?
Skoda to try to.dispell any doubts about the car on narrow roads or to get more testing/development feedback?
Toksport to get PR? (least likely imo)