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Carlos Sainz Joins The Fabia Super 2000 Test Programme
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Successful tarmac test of the new Škoda Fabia Super 2000. Two time world champion Carlos Sainz, joined experienced test drivers Jan Kopecký and Raimund Baumschlager; the team recently tested the competition version of the Fabia Super 2000 in Austria. The Volkswagen factory driver won the Central European Rally with a Race Touareg in April and contributed to the double success of the new Scirocco in its class at the 24-hour race in Nürnburgring earlier this month. A number of big names of motor sport attended the test drives of the new Škoda Fabia Super 2000 in order to check the project's progress, including Hans-Joachim Stuck of the Volkswagen Motor Sport Department. The test was not Sainz's first experience of driving a Škoda – the Spanish driver won the Shalymar Rally (near Madrid) with a Fabia last year and so he felt like trying out the new version of the Fabia Super 2000. “I have got to know the Škoda Fabia really well and I can see a huge step forward as far as the development of the competition version is concerned“, said Sainz, authorised to take part in this test by Volkswagen Motor Sport Department Director Kris Nissen. Commenting on the project, Dr. Eckhard Scholz, Škoda Auto BOD Member responsible for technological development, said: "The involvement of experienced competitors such as Carlos Sainz and Hans-Joachim Stuck highlights the importance the Volkswagen Group attributes to Škoda's motor sport initiatives and gives valuable stimuli to the development of the new Fabia Super 2000." | ||||||
The
"Classic Motor Sport Tour" includes visits to Goodwood Revival,
Donington Grand Prix Collection, Grand Prix Historique de la Vienne, Manoir de L'Automobile and Museum de L'Automobile at Le Mans and, for a
farewell dinner, Atelier Renault on Champs Elysees. Also included are city tours of London and Paris, Classic Team Lotus Works tour and Brands
Hatch race master (with an opportunity of a drive in a high performance Renault). This great tour includes return economy air fares, departure
tax, transfers, 13 breakfasts, 3 dinners and 13 nights accommodation.
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