RallyOne Project\u2019s first chassis is in build and is expected to be testing at the start of September \u2013 with a Monte Carlo Rally debut still firmly in sight.<\/p>\n
After an initial roll out in France \u2013 with a French driver \u2013 the team has planned six asphalt tests before the end of October. A decision on whether the season opener remains a realistic option for the car\u2019s World Rally Championship debut will be taken on November 1.<\/p>\n
Lionel Hansen, the man behind the first constructor team to enter under WRC27 regulations, talked DirtFish through his plans for RallyOne Project.<\/p>\n
\u201cOf course, this is an exciting time for us,\u201d Hansen said, \u201cbut it\u2019s still a massive challenge for us and it\u2019s also a massive work and a massive expectation about all the work we did the last seven months. The target is for homologation on January 1 and to have two cars in Monte Carlo. We have the suppliers and the production [process] ready for this.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor Monte Carlo, first of all, the target is to be there. That\u2019s for sure. And be homologated. If we have no reliability problem at the end of October, I think we can be confident to have minimum one car and maximum two in Monte Carlo. That\u2019s realistic.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe crossing point to decide on Monte is the end of October. Then we would plan to build a second chassis in November and one in December. The process we have for homologation is, of course, the same for a constructor \u2013 a tuner \u2013 like is as it is for a manufacturer. But, for us, we have much less people. Even if we are very motivated, it\u2019s not so easy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RallyOne Project\u2019s first chassis is in build and is expected to be testing at the start of September…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":638392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[74],"tags":[18,19,17,269971,269972,82,29471,244349],"class_list":["post-638391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-lionel-hansen","tag-rallyone-project","tag-technology","tag-wrc","tag-wrc-2027"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117098761855126975","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=638391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/638392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}