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4 Jan 2017, 19:19 (Ref:3700195) | #176 | ||
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IMG plastering Loeb in the Dakar over the #WorldRX website today. Assume he's got a multi year deal with Peugeot-Hansen otherwise can't see why they'd want a Red Bull athlete on their site.
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10 Jan 2017, 00:13 (Ref:3701414) | #177 | |
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Electric rallycross at SEMA Vegas 2017
http://us3.campaign-archive1.com/?u=...&id=91d483ca6e and also this in 2017 http://speedleague.org/ |
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10 Jan 2017, 23:58 (Ref:3701698) | #178 | |
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According to Swedish news giant Expressen, "they could reveal" that Solberg will be in a KMS VW along with Kristoffersson.
I know most of you guys don't understand Swedish but the article seems a bit odd. For example there are no more details besides from them being in KMS and Expressen writes very little about rallycross. They wrote that Solberg finished third last season too ... http://www.expressen.se/sport/motor/...enskt-vw-team/ Feels somewhat weird if this is true. Solberg seems to have had his plans ready for some time and last month Tommy K said he wasn't sure if KMS would do WRX either, and maybe not even in VW cars either. They didn't even have cars then! Last edited by crossfades; 11 Jan 2017 at 00:13. |
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11 Jan 2017, 06:33 (Ref:3701731) | #179 | ||
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Doesn't sound like KMS is a VW works team?
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11 Jan 2017, 07:42 (Ref:3701736) | #180 | ||
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There have never been any works VW teams. THey try and push it to you that there are, but they are importer backed nothing more.
A works team is one that provides technical backup, improvements, goes testing with you, builds engines. KMW was never that, they just had money from VW Sweden to add to their budget |
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11 Jan 2017, 08:41 (Ref:3701746) | #181 | ||
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With PSRX fielding the two Polos what will KMS do? Euro RX? STCC?
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11 Jan 2017, 09:01 (Ref:3701752) | #182 | ||
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Well it looks like it is more than just a rumour now:
Massive news, though it does raise a lot of questions as to how things are going to run. Will PSRX be running the whole thing, or will Solberg be integrating with the KMS team? Are they going to be running updated versions of the KMS cars, or are they starting again from scratch? |
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11 Jan 2017, 09:17 (Ref:3701756) | #183 | |
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New article from Swedish VF, VW motorsport has actually developed and built a new Polo and the duo is to test the car next week.
How the teams will come together is not decided yet but Solberg will run the team from Torsby at least. http://www.vf.se/rallycross/varmland...-i-rallycross/ |
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11 Jan 2017, 09:27 (Ref:3701758) | #184 | |
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11 Jan 2017, 09:31 (Ref:3701760) | #186 | |
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Another article from Norwegian VG. The budget is believed to be ca €8,25 - 8,82 million ...
KMS don't seem to be involved according to this article, Solberg is the brain behind all this and also picked Kristoffersson to be in the team. They will have up to 30 people during events with people from VW and Solbergs team. Much more can be read in the article, otherwise I'll help translate if needed. http://www.vg.no/sport/motorsport/mo...ll/a/23894355/ |
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11 Jan 2017, 10:09 (Ref:3701774) | #188 | ||
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I guess the engine is in-house? I don't know but nothing else has been revealed. But since VW Motorsport developed the cars and gone through a similar phase from when building the WRC cars, my presumption is that they have the same engine builder from WRC. |
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11 Jan 2017, 12:00 (Ref:3701795) | #189 | ||
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So, how this can happen if VW are supposedly pulling out of WRC? This must came from a similar budget?
I doubt they will be using the same engines as the WRC ones are tuned for running on a far smaller restrictor and are 1.6 litre. So unless the car is like the JRM Mini and running a 1.6 litre engine it will be built probably by someone like Callaghan or Trollspeed or Solbergs existing engine man which I believe is Pipo. |
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The engines would be my only concern at the moment, as I wonder how much expertise VW have with that displacement engine (and running that level of power). |
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11 Jan 2017, 12:29 (Ref:3701803) | #191 | ||
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11 Jan 2017, 13:50 (Ref:3701824) | #192 | ||
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I guess with that kind of money VW can buy in additional RX expertise when and if they need it.
It does raise questions for everyone else - and for the sustainability of the sport. Not many will be able to match this sort of budget which is huge by RX standards. You just wonder if WRX is growing too big, too fast - we have certainly seen that before. |
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11 Jan 2017, 14:08 (Ref:3701829) | #194 | ||
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IMG wont give a flying hoot, as we all know they only care about the now, nothing else, what they can plaster all over facebook or twitter, nothing more. ANd get shares and likes. Yawn
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11 Jan 2017, 19:20 (Ref:3701887) | #195 | ||
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Why? All WRC engines would have the same problem as WRX is the only series running 2.0 Turbo engines with 45 mm restrictors. And I guess all the VAG engines used by EKS/KMS are about as good as the Ford and PSA engines. |
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11 Jan 2017, 20:14 (Ref:3701896) | #196 | |
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Are the cars going to be the 2017 looking cars?
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11 Jan 2017, 21:01 (Ref:3701900) | #197 | |
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11 Jan 2017, 22:50 (Ref:3701917) | #198 | |
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I am really curious what will be different to the current Swedish VW backed Polo's. If the wide is different then the can't use the 2017 WRC suspension I suppose? And I really do believe the latest RX Polo's are already pretty good! I am sure Petter will vow for Pipo as engine builder if VW won't supply the engines. I guess they will use WRC shells to start with, so no IGMAB fit this team? Well as a side note, factory cars are not always better, Larson's Skoda was more successful than the WRC's, but of course VW is on a totally different level and all WRC teams have improved since.
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11 Jan 2017, 23:02 (Ref:3701919) | #199 | ||
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Does this mean Kristofferson will become a Monster athlete with the team retaining their backing? Or has Solberg got his sugar fix elsewhere?
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11 Jan 2017, 23:50 (Ref:3701926) | #200 | ||
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Might be like Ogier with Msport, his car is Red Bull the others are not. Might be the same with Solberg, though there are different grades of diabetes in a can sponsor, Doran was high profile with them doinn=g other events etc, others were not so.
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