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Australian S2000

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Can anyone pls put in some links that informs on the championchip ot teams running S2000 in Australia ?
 
Ford and Toyota running S2000 in Australia. The Ford team is run by Jason Bright's Britek V8 Supercar team with some very good rally people involved, they are building Fiesta's with the help of MSport. Toyota have built an old shape Corolla and Neal Bates will run that until the release of the new shape later in the year when both Neal and Simon Evans will run the S2000 cars.

The only links so far ar http://www.rally.com.au

Ray
 
Reigning champion Simon Evans will remain in the Gp. N(P) Toyota until the S2000's car has proven it's speed & reliability. Neal Bates will drive a Gp. N(P) that has been converted to S2000 initially until the 2007 body shape car is ready by Round 3 Rally of Canberra, close to the team's headquarters.

Ford will run 2 Fiesta's for Michael Guest & Darren Windus. Hopefully they will be fast straight from the box, unlike the MkIII Escort, sorry I mean RWD Focus.

I may be mistaken but I thought there is some Italian influence or heritage in the Fiestas.
 
Fiesta S2000

The Ford Fiesta S2000 project is interesting - Please keep us posted on websites and Pictures of that car as they appear on Australian Sites !!
 
Interesting to see if M Sport use any of the Oz knowledge if they decide to build a Fusty S2000
 
Is there much difference between the original Toyota Bates car and the newer S2000
Did Bates Motorsport build the new car is is this one from South Africa?

Nice car
 
New Corolla (Auris in Europe) is built by Bates for Australian championship S2000 regulation.

It is not based on SA car - RunX (Corolla in Europe) they had discussions but did not use any technology or ideas from SA.
 
Fiesta

Any news on the Fiesta ?
Have they started the testing, the 31st is getting closer...

Or will they do this the normal motorsport way; finishing the car the night before the first rally, and just start using it ?? :p
 
M5 said:
Any news on the Fiesta ?
Have they started the testing, the 31st is getting closer...

Or will they do this the normal motorsport way; finishing the car the night before the first rally, and just start using it ?? :p
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They produced a promo video & released it on Youtube but it only contain footage of the Gp.N(P) Focus with the S2000 Fiestas still under fabrication in the workshop shots. Nothing else has been made public yet.

Can't wait to see what both the Corolla's & Fiesta's are like when I head up to Queensland for the rally.
 
One of the Fiesta S1600's came from Italy and had the floor modded and the Engine is from Mountune here in the UK

Anymore pics?
 
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