RallySport Magazine February 2017
The February 2017 issue of RallySport Magazine features: Latest news: * MRF awarded ARC control tyre contract * ARC-winning Subaru WRX finds new home * Simon Evans to contest Otago Rally * FIA finalise new R4 kit car formula * Eli Evans aims for ARC title in new AP4 Mini * Targa North West attracts strong field Feature stories: * Power Stage reflections from Gary Boyd * Hayden Paddon column * Retrospective: the mighty Peugeot 205 T16 * 2016’s Australian state champions profiled * Gemini mission - Col Fletcher’s classic Holden * The challenge of designing a World Rally Car Interviews: * Mr Nice Guy - Belgium’s Stephane Prevot * 5 minutes with Mark Pedder * Where are they now? Adrian “Mozza” Morrisby * DMack tyre guru Fiorenzo Brivio talks about rally tyres Event reports: * 2017 Monte Carlo Rally
The February 2017 issue of RallySport Magazine features:
Latest news:
* MRF awarded ARC control tyre contract
* ARC-winning Subaru WRX finds new home
* Simon Evans to contest Otago Rally
* FIA finalise new R4 kit car formula
* Eli Evans aims for ARC title in new AP4 Mini
* Targa North West attracts strong field
Feature stories:
* Power Stage reflections from Gary Boyd
* Hayden Paddon column
* Retrospective: the mighty Peugeot 205 T16
* 2016’s Australian state champions profiled
* Gemini mission - Col Fletcher’s classic Holden
* The challenge of designing a World Rally Car
Interviews:
* Mr Nice Guy - Belgium’s Stephane Prevot
* 5 minutes with Mark Pedder
* Where are they now? Adrian “Mozza” Morrisby
* DMack tyre guru Fiorenzo Brivio talks about rally tyres
Event reports:
* 2017 Monte Carlo Rally
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The four new <strong>2017</strong> World Rally<br />
Cars from Citroen, Hyundai,<br />
Ford and Toyota debuted at<br />
Monte Carlo Rally.<br />
TYRE DEAL GOES TO MRF<br />
MRF Tyres will be the official tyre<br />
supplier of the Australian Rally<br />
Championship for the next three years.<br />
Mentor Tyres, the importer of MRF<br />
Motorsport Tyres for Australia and<br />
New Zealand, has been negotiating<br />
with CAMS for many months to sign a<br />
contract, after the previous supplier,<br />
Kumho, decided not to renew their<br />
contract.<br />
Mentor Tyres’ Vivek Ponnusamy is<br />
looking forward to the opportunity in<br />
<strong>2017</strong> and beyond.<br />
“MRF Tyres has a strong passion<br />
in motor sport and cannot wait to<br />
become a part of the Australian Rally<br />
Championship for the next three years,”<br />
he said.<br />
The controlled MRF tyre has won<br />
championships around the world,<br />
including the prestigious FIA Asia Pacific<br />
Rally Championship eight times.<br />
“We have the enthusiasm and<br />
commitment to support all forms of<br />
motorsport in Australia, right from club<br />
level to national and international level,<br />
and we are here for long term.<br />
“We have great reputation in all<br />
forms of motor sport, where our<br />
championship-winning tyres are used in<br />
rallying, open-wheel racing, motocross<br />
and international-level karting,”<br />
Ponnusamy added.<br />
This year’s Australian Rally<br />
Championship will begin with the<br />
Eureka Rally in March, and will then<br />
head to Western Australia for the Quit<br />
Forest Rally in April.<br />
ARC REDUCE<br />
FEES FOR <strong>2017</strong><br />
After much lobbying and<br />
complaints from competitors, CAMS<br />
have announced a 50% reduction<br />
in the series registration fee for this<br />
year’s Australian Rally Championship,<br />
to $1500.<br />
At the same time the governing<br />
body released the Sporting and<br />
Technical Regulations.<br />
CAMS General Manager of<br />
Motor Sport Michael Smith said<br />
he’s looking forward to a great<br />
season of Australia’s premier rally<br />
championship.<br />
“This marks the first of many<br />
changes on the horizon for the<br />
championship, with it now coming<br />
under the CAMS banner,” Smith said.<br />
“More news regarding the<br />
championship will be announced<br />
shortly, with the championship<br />
already shaping up to be one of the<br />
biggest seasons yet.”<br />
Entries have also opened for the<br />
first round of the championship, with<br />
competitors heading to Ballarat for<br />
the Eureka Rally on March 17.<br />
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