Rally2 (ex-R5) News

[Tom206wrc]

Yes, he did (finally). If the car is working, it is a fast car !! Obviously not a failed project......

Now that reliability seems to work, I'm impatient to follow Breen and Abbring this coming week-end in Portugal

[mousti]

One rally won't confirm that, I really hope they both don't get problems and especially Abbring. I guess he will be the fastest again (like in Greece) of the two..

[Andre Oliveira]

Thanks to Luis Pacheco, Moura's car

[Tom206wrc]

What surprise to hear/read about Karl Kruuda in a 208 T16 in WRC2 Sardigna next month

[mousti]

208 comes from TRT Rally team, Tagai probably? Printsport will do service.

[mousti]

Kobus will test tomorrow a Fiesta R5 at MSport. Good chance I think he will buy one and debut with it in Ypres. He has said multiple times this season he's on the limit with his Fiesta S2000 and can't beat Loix with it. Although beating Loix in Belgium is always quite difficult

[Mirek]

He is also driving on Kumho tyres. I have no idea how good they are but probably hardly on Michelin pace.

[tommeke_B]

He is also driving on Kumho tyres. I have no idea how good they are but probably hardly on Michelin pace.

I think the tyres are not so bad, especially on dry conditions. In Belgium loops are relatively short, so it's hard to judge on the wear of the tyres. (In average you don't see more than 40km SS between two service-breaks.) Of course in Ypres conditions are different, and tyre wear could be an issue (especially if we see extremely hot weather like we've seen in 2010). From my feeling I don't think it's possible for him to be much faster with Michelin tyres. The Kumho's are "alive" and moving much more than the michelin tyre, obviously, but I think this suits his driving style and he actually likes it.

[Tom206wrc]

Federico della Casa on a DS3 R5 on entrylist of next week's Rallye du Chablais(swiss rallies championship)

[vino_93]

In french magazine Auto Hebdo, Olivier Maroselli, former ingeneer from Mitsubishi and Renault talked about Maxi Rally cars in Argentina. He is now working in Argentina for Tango Rally Team, and helped to create this category.
He said FIA is interested in what he did there. They are interested in a upgrade he is doing with an ex Peugeot ingeneer, Stéphane Basque. It would be a 1.6T engine and worked as a kit, in the spirit of R5.
FIA would like to use it to replace N cars, in order to see WRC / Regionals Rallies growing in term of competition.

Teams would have only to assemble the chassis. The whole other parts would be the same for each models.
A full car will cost around 150 000€.