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Turns out there is a big group of rally enthusiasts here on the boards, I'd figure I would shed some light on the up and coming season.
A lot of shit has been happening recently and the 09 season starts in Jan with round 1 Ireland. Rumors of Marcus Gronholm may run a few rallies but not compete in a whole season since subaru/prodrive quit after 20 years because "they reached their marketing goal" and are not looking to make this a short leave of absence Suzuki pulls out of WRC with their two car SX4 team but will continue to support the super 1600 and suzuki swift programs Christ Atkinson and Petter Solberg have a contract with Subaru till end of 09, despite all of this... somehow The team manager of Citroen will also be the team boss of Peugot which will come in for the 09 season Registration ends for Rally Ireland on christmas eve Leob wins Race of Champions tire tweaks are a must, rules are going under change and stipulation for 2009 and 2010 seaons Instead, the WRC kit is believed to be limited to a turbo, revised inlet and exhaust manifolds, a quicker gearshift mechanism (with steering wheel paddle shift) and an aero package consisting of a rear wing and front spoiler. The bolt-on kit will cost under 30.000 Euros and should give the cars an extra 50bhp. info: http://wrc.com/jsp/index.jsp?lnk=110 shits goin nuts keep checking this thread for updates! Last edited by Fidelity101; 12-25-2008 at 01:34 PM.. |
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Clean S4 Nutswinger
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FUCK the fucking fuckers
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what???? no AWD??
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"Leading manufacturers remain opposed to this and propose a compromise Super 2000-plus, which is a base S2000 car with a kit of bolt-on parts such as a turbo-charger and a rear wing. It's the cost and complexity of the kit that's causing concern for the FIA. The FIA also confirmed that Group N cars, including the existing S2000, will be retained in the Production Car World Rally Championship" -Autosport.com thats TOTALLY different than only FWD cars Last edited by Fidelity101; 12-21-2008 at 10:05 PM.. |
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ah ok i did not know this. I thought all s2000 cars were FWD. that makes me feel better, but turbos are not permitted correct? which is almost just as bad. unless they create the s2000+ class mentioned above
Last edited by 88turboii; 12-22-2008 at 11:37 AM.. |
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Everyone seems to be dropping out but Citroen is going to have a second factory team, a 3 car group
Chris Atkinson (formerly on the subaru team) will be piloting one of them, starting in Jan for rally Ireland in a C4 Former Citroen privateer Rautenbach will now be factory backed in a C4 Sebastien Ogier was the winner for the 2008 JWRC series and for 09 will be apart of this 3 man team dubbed "M2" driving a c4 "It is an M2 team which will predominantly run drivers who are currently learning the sport, and their average age will be 22." Call it a junior driver team but not a junior WRC team (because those are FWD N/A aka super1600) |
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They were having economic problems, so subaru pulled out of WRC and left P. Solberg and Atkinson drivers w/o cars, well chris has one now.
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Captin Safety
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Oh I know, but Subaru was having trouble being competitive, and P. Solberg seemed to be pretty vocal about the cars problems in the past.
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