R4 Set For Rally Du Var Debut

Sarrazin will drive new car in anger for the first time in competitive bow

- David Evans

ORECA’s new R4 rally car will run in public for the first time at the Rallye du Var in France at the end of the month with Stephane Sarrazin behind the wheel.

The R4 kit, which is fitted to a Toyota Etios – a car only sold in South America and India – has completed an initial test programme of close to 1500 miles on gravel in Italy and asphalt in the south of France.

The FIA confirmed ORECA as the sole supplier of the R4 kits last year and the French team has two orders already.

ORECA technical chief Matthieu Bassou told MN: “We want to take the car to the Rallye du Var to show people where we are with it and what the car can do.”