A sensational one-two finish for the 207 S2000

The dramatic final day of the 2010 Rallye Açores saw Peugeot Portugal’s Bruno Magalhaès take the win ahead of Peugeot UK driver Kris Meeke. The result hands the 207 S2000 its first one-two finish of the 2010 IRC campaign. Read more

NEW STAR OGIER JOINS MEEKE AND NAGLE IN SARDINIA

Sébastien Ogier, fresh from his maiden World Rally victory in Portugal, joins Peugeot UK’s IRC Champions Kris Meeke and Paul Nagle in Sardinia as Peugeot braces itself for a major battle on the gravel stages of Sardinia this weekend. Read more

Hänninen takes dominant Win

Juho Hänninen and Škoda have made it three different winners from three rounds of this year’s Intercontinental Rally Challenge following a dominant victory on Rally Argentina, Read more

WILKS A STRONG 2ND

Guy Wilks holds a strong 2nd position on Rally Argentina in his Škoda UK Motorsport Fabia S2000, as he battles for victory on Round 3 of the Intercontinental Rally Challenge with rally leader Juho Hänninen in a sensational Škoda 1-2. Read more

IRC : A wet rally !

Each year brings its own specific challenges, and this year’s visit to Brazil delivered a stark contrast in weather terms compared with the conditions encountered on the same event twelve months ago. In 2009, Read more

Peugeot heads for Brazil

Peugeot UK’s Kris Meeke and Paul Nagle will today start the Rally Internacional de Curitiba, the rally they won in such dominant style last year. Read more

FIRST VICTORY FOR BLOCK

FIRST VICTORY FOR KEN BLOCK AND THE MONSTER WORLD RALLY TEAM FORD FIESTA IN RALLY AMERICA Read more

ICE COOL WILKS READY

FOR HOT BRAZIL RALLY CHALLENGE Read more

CITROËN SPONSOR IRISH TARMAC RALLY CHAMPIONSHIP 2010

Citroën has announced its title sponsorship of the 2010 Irish Tarmac Rally Championship (ITRC), which kicks off this weekend at the Galway International Rally (5th – 7th February). Read more

Prokop tested Fiesta S2000

On Friday, the day after the official launch of newly created Czech Ford National Team, the reigning J-WRC champion Martin Prokop did first test of his new Ford Fiesta S2000. Czech driver was testing his car for 2010 S-WRC championship not far from the team’s base near to Jihlava. The special guests of this testing were some journalists from leading Czech motorsport media.

Friday`s programme was the next part of the presentation of Czech Ford National Team and Martin Prokop had also the chance to pass first kilometres with the car and get used to the behavior of new Fiesta S2000, although the selected track had been slower than are the special stages in Sweden, where the new World Rally Championship season will start in less than two weeks.

Q & A Martin Prokop

During the day you had the opportunity to pass with Fiesta S2000 first major portion of kilometers. What are yours first feelings? You had some ,,taxi rides” for Czech journalists. In spite of that fact, did you had opportunity to test some things and work on settings of the car?

“Today it was just about driving and collectng first kilometres, because we don`t have many things and parts that we could change. We will receive them only for the test session in Norway next weekend. Anyhow, I can say that the car works really well, although I drove on the track, which is very technical, rather slower. So I particularly learned how the car responds, what is the balance of the car. It was really positive day and I think, I understood a bit how the car works, how I should drive it and I am absolutely thrilled. I am excited just as I was when I brought Citroen. It is something entirely new. Wonderful!”

When you mentioned the cars with which you started in previous seasons, you had participated with them also in snow rallies. So could you compare the driving of Fiesta S2000 on the snow with production car and with S1600?

“With 2WD car it was horror. In addition, we had no settings for the snow, because the factory team had never raced winter rally with this car. With production car it was really nice racing. What is great, the steering of Fiesta S2000 is very fast, very short, so you can solve situations, that with a production car worked out to solve. Ford is lightweight, you can break really late, the car is great balanced. Real Group A car! It is really the greatest race car, I have raced. From all points of view, this is new level of racing for me.”

-source: zz

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