Travel Authorised Racehorse: Renaultsport launches entry-level rally-spec Twingo
For such the little automobile, Renault’s punchy small Twingo RS certain has been removing the lot courtesy newly. Initia l came a launch of a Twingo Gordini book, reviving the long-dormant racing nameplate for a French automaker. Afterwards Jeremy Clarkson took it for the float As well as the float around As well as underneath Belfast. Rightaway Renault’s motorsport multiplication has expelled a the span of entry-lev el convene machines formed upon a pint-size prohibited hatch.
Called a Twingo Renaultsport R1 as well as R2, these have been Renault’s ultimate offerings to determined convene drivers removing in du ring a bottom. They container 1.6-liter 16-valve four-bangers pumping out the estimable 160 horsepower – TWENTY-SEVEN over a customary RS – pushing a front wheels by the five-speed consecutive gearbox with the slip-resistant dog purchase as well as wheel-mounted change paddles. There’s small to h eed a convene machines from their street-going counterparts, though inside, a inter ior has b een nude out as well as propitious with the hurl enclosure.
Upgrading from a R1 to a R2 That can be achieved during any after indicate, beneficial if your group is contingent upon esteem money to re-invest into a automobile gains Sabelt buckets with six-point strap as well as the co uple of some-more bells as well as whistles. A most approp riate partial? They’re assumingly still travel authorised (in Europe duri ng slightest so we can expostulate it home after a convene instead of loadi ng it onto the lorry. THE entirely versed Renaultsport Twingo R2 will set we behind €38,980, or a homogeneous of $58k in American greenbacks…if usually it were essentially accessible here. We know a cavalcade: sum in a press recover after a burst, high-res photos in a artstudio below.
Gallery:Renaultsport Twingo R2
[Source: Renault]
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RENAULT LAUNCHES ENTRY-LEVEL CONVENE TWINGO
Renaultsport Technologies is expanding the operation of convene cars with a key of Twingo Renaultsport R2 as well as Twingo Renaultsport R1. Written for drivers seeking for the complicated, affordable as well as arguable convene automobile, these dual subsequent era products have up a entry-level of the extensive operation of foe cars which additionally i ncludes a Clio Renaultsport R3 Entrance as well as Maxi.
In further to the success in world’s tip motorsport events, Renaulsport’s story additionally belongs to a models which have enabled complet e ge nerations of drivers to aspireto their passion for a competition. In a same suggestion as ca rs such as a R8 Gordini, a FIVE) GT Turbo as well as a organisation N Clio Renaultsport Wi lliams, a Twingo Renaultsport R2 becomes a ultimate afford able sports indication directed during determined veteran drivers.
Twingo Renaultsport R2
Similarto a Twingo Renaultsport 133 highway automobile, a foe chronicle offers day-to-day driveability as well as first-class opening. A manageable, offset framework facilities a same characteristics as a prolongation indication as well as has been rebuilt specifically to suggest glorious trustworthiness as well as ext ended opening levels while gripping servicing costs rival. In further to strengthening sure components, Twingo Renaultsport R2 is propitious with strike- as well as rebound-adjustable startle absorb ers, permitting it to be set up for incompatible conditions as well as pushing styles.
A specifically-prepared 4-cylinder 1.6-litre16V engine develops 160hp (118kW) du ring SEVEN,250rpm – an additional 27hp compared to a prolongation engine. Total with the five-speed ‘dog’ consecutive gearbox as well as steering mainstay mounted change push, a engine gen erates the limit torque of 160Nm during FIVE),500rpm, giving it the far-reaching energy band.
From a pattern proviso as well as right by contrast, Renault Competition Technologies has taken a needs of pledge drivers into comment. Creation make use of of the endless imagination in conceptualizing rallying cars, a technical grou p grown an permitted, easy-to-drive as well as attractively labelled automobile, both to buy as well as run.
Twingo Renaultsport R2 already has the small he rmit: an R1 chronicle has additionally been awarded FIA homologation. This indication allows the most wider assembly entrance to rallying during the severely markeddown cost.
Renaultsport Technologies is a initial manufacturer to suggest the finish operation of Organisation R cars, from Twingo Renaultsport R1 to Clio Renaultsport R3 Maxi.
Twingo Renaultsport R2 comes in a form of the motorsport pack featuring all a compulsory tools Solely for tyres). Business who buy a pack will be means to squeeze the Twingo Renaultsport 133 during the special co st. This resolution allows business to acquire the finish, fully-registered prolongation automobile into that a pack is built.
Kits go upon sale in early Apr, 2010, during a cost of TWENTY-SEV EN,990€ incompatible tax.
Pa ttern as well as interior
A convene chronicle of a Twingo Renaultsport 133 accentuates a prolongation model’s ofcourse sporting looks. A usually opposite extraneous pattern underline upon a foe chronicle is a discretionary roof-mounted air intake. A car’s compress proportions as well as pointy styling, that in vast partial comes from a inclusion of the far-reaching air intake grille in a front fender, sculpted side sills as well as lengthened front as well as back circle arches, builds upon a already particular looks of a highway automo bile, a undiluted height for a R2 version.
Twingo Renaultsport R 2’s interior obviously shows Renaultsport’s expostulate to urge potency. Twingo Renaultsport R2 has a same dashboard as well as executive console as upon a highway automobile, though comes with dual Sabelt Renaultsport seat s as well as harnesses. An LED instrumental row displays all a r
equired report, both during a special stages for a motorist as well as during a use area for a technical group. THE interpretation merger complement is additionally accessible as an option.
Upon a right of a steering circle, a gearshift push for a consecutive dog box is insideof eas y strech, as is a discretionary hydraulic handbrake push. All electric controls have been located upon the Energy box’, placed to a side of a co-driver seat.
Cessation as well as brakes
In conceptualizing the automobile which is elementary to expostulate, arguable as well as ineffect upon all surfaces, from a smoothest tarmac to a roughest mud roads, Renault Competition Technologies opted for attempted as well as tested technological solutions as wel l as reuse d most prolongation parts.
A front cessation us es McPherson record, with aluminiu m reduce arms as well as the customary anti-roll club. Optionally, a rubber underbrush can be transposed w ith round joints, for larger pus hing pointing. Twingo Renaultsport R2 comes with hydraulic power-assisted steering, ensuring it can encounter a specific final of rallying, inanycase of a length as well as aspect of a special stages.
Additionally subsequent from a prolongation indication, a back cessation is the automatic deflection torsion lamp. Optional ly, it can be reinforced during vital points.
Versed with a ultimate in strike- as well as rebound-adjustable twin-tube startle absorbers, Twingo Renaultsport R2 has the extended operation of settings, so being tractable for each pushing style.
Propitious with customary callipers as well as discs, a braking complement additionally comes with specific motorsport stop pads. During a front, Twingo Renaultsport has 280mm-diameter ventilated discs as well as 240mm plain discs during a back. A one-piece aluminium circle rims have been accessible in 6.5×16″ (tarmac) as well as 6×15″ Sand sizes as well as can be propitious with 195/50 R SIXTEEN (tarmac) or 195/65 R FIFTEEN Sand tyres.
A discretionary sand pack comprises a 4 specific springs, a round joints for a front spindle, a reinforced back spindle as well as protecting elements. These technical decisions assistance to keep a price of shopping as well as servicing a automobile underneath control. In seeking to pattern the automobile which is elementary to expostulate, arguable as well as ineffect upon all surfaces, from a smoothest tarmac to a roughest mud roads, Renault Competition Technologies opte d for attempted as well as tested technological solutions as well as reused most prolongation parts.
Engine as well as rigging box
Twingo Renaultsport R2 facilities a normally-aspirated ONE),598cc 16-valve K4M RS engine grown by Renault Compet ition Technologies, ensuring a automobile is ineffect, arguable as well as fun-to-drive. A categorical changes regard a pistons, camshaft, flywheel, empty complement as well as a further of the specific air box. This special credentials gives a engine an additional 27hp compared with a prolongation indication, reaching the strong 160hp (118kW) of energy during SEVEN),250rpm. Limit torque (16 0Nm) is reached during FIVE),500rpm.
THE specific motorsport ECU manages engine Energy supply as well as ignition) as well as gearbox operations. It operates in and with the special electrical electricwires dawn as well as may be total wi th an discretionary interpretatio n logging. Twingo Renaultsport R2’s engine has been written to cover TWO),500 kilometres of special stages in between any service.
A five-speed consecutive gearbox comes with the ZF singular trip differential. Gearshift is manage d around the push positioned neighboring to a steering circle, that is total with an engine cut-out switch. This equatesto a motorist can make use of full-throttle prosaic shifts whilst becoming different up by a gears. A purchase is the hydrauli cally-controlled singular front. Similarto a gearbox, it can be used for both sand as well as tarmac r allying. 3 last expostulate settin gs have been accessible to fit a specific characteristics of any event.
Reserve upon highway as well as track
R eserve is the priority for Renault sport Technologies. Twingo Renaultsport R2’s makeup has been reinforced as we ll as strengthened to enlarge pacifist as well as active reserve levels. A strange physique bombard has been reinforced as we ll as rightaway comes with the welded-in hurl enclosure t hat complies with a ultimate specifications set out in Organisation R regulations as well as authorized by a FIA after the pile-up exam. A hurl en closure is done of some-more than 40 metres of steel tubing as well as contributes to a strength of a presence cell. Twingo Renaultsport R2’s interior is propitious with a ultimate apparatus, togetherwith Sabelt seats as well as si x-point reserve strap concordant with a HANS patience complement. As an choice, it is probable to name a seats with conduct patience as used upon Clio Renaultsport R3. A middle doorway trims have been private to concede the protecting row done from combination materials to be commissioned. A automobile has an electrically-controlled involuntary gl ow extinguisher complement as well as the battery master switch.
Twingo Renaultsport R1
During a opening, engine racing was all about drivers receiving up on any alternative in their own cars. Renault Competition Technologies aims to lapse to a origins of racing, with Twingo Renaultsport R1.
Renault Competition Technologies is a initial manufacturer to acquire homologation for the automobile in this entry-level motorsport difficulty. T his simple chronicle can take partial in all informal, inhabitant as well as gener al ra llies during the severely markeddown price. Twingo Renau ltsport R1 is the prolongation automobile propitious with alittle necessary reserve apparatus. It gives drivers with really singular budgets a event to get involved.
Starting with a Twingo Renaultsport 133 highway automobile, a R1 chronicle is propitious with a same welded hurl enclosure as a R2, thou gh it additionally has dual one more protecting tubes as well as is bolted to a physique bomb ard to easy public. A engine as well as gearbox have been matching to a prolongation indica tion. An ECU environment giving torque during reduce engine s peeds will be homologated to urge mid-range opening. Supposing FIA regulations have been complied with, it is probable to modify Twingo Renaultsport R1 to Twingo Renaultsport R2 specification.
Support
Renault Competition Technologies provides high-quality technical await for all the operation of racing products. Each year, the engineers attend over 100 inhabitant as well as general rallies Youth Universe Convene Championship, IRC, ERC, etc.)
THE gangling tools trickery, as good as manufacturers’ engineers as well as technicians, will be benefaction during a assorted inhabitant trophies which will be run via Europe – in France, Italy, Swit zerland as well as the couple of alternative countries – to await drivers who have selected a Twingo Renaultsport R2. Ongoing await, togetherwith the assistance hotline, ensures which all business sojourn in approach hit with Renault Competition Technologies’ engineers, possibly by write or email.
This await use equatesto which drivers as well as teams can good from Renault Competition Technologies’ imagination as shortly as they embrace a pack as w ell as be supervised during a setup of a automobile. Feedback supposing in this appro ach additionally allows Renault Competition Technologies to accumulate, break down into parts as well as send any utilitarian report to all the business. An extranet site is accessibl e to Renau ltsport business, where they can download technical as well as sales supp ort, technic al updates, public instructions, as well as setup sheets.
Twingo Renaultsport R2
Twingo Renaultsport R1
Body
Steeel monocoque with welded-in
hurl cage
Steeel monocoque with welded
hurl enclosure bolted into bodyshell
Engine
Type
K4MRS
K4MRS
Size/valves
1598cc/16 valve
1598cc/16 valve
Gimlet x stroke
79.5 x 80.5mm
79.5 x 80.5mm
Ignition
Magnetti Marelli
Prolongation specification
Power
160hp (118 kW) @ 7000rpm
133hp (98kW) @ 6750rpm
Torque
180Nm @ 5550rpm
160Nm @ 4400rpm
Limit rpm
7500rpm
7000rpm
Transmission
Type
Front circle drive
Front cir cle drive
Gearbox
FIVE) speed sequential
FIVE speed
Gearshift
Steering mainstay mounted
Building mounted
Differential
ZF singular trip differential
Open
Clutch
Hydraulically-controlled singular disc
Production
Suspension
Front
McPherson strut
Two-way tractable startle absorbers,
tractable cove settings
McPherson strut
Rear
Automatic deflection torsion beam
Two-way tractable startle absorbers
Automatic deflection torsion beam
Brakes
280mm ventilated front discs
240mm plain back discs
Specific deskpad compound
280mm ventilated front discs
240mm plain back discs
Wheels
Tarmac: amalgamate 6.5″ x SIXTEEN”
Sand: amalgamate 6.5″ x FIFTEEN”
Amalgamate 6.5″ x FIFTEEN”
Tyres
Tarmac: BF Goodrich 195/50 R 16
Sand: 195/65 R 15
BF Goodrich 195/50 R 15
Length
3607mm
3607mm
Lane front/rear
1465mm/1445mm
1460mm/1430mm
Fuel capacity
40 litres
40 litres
Kerb weight
Ballasted to 1030kg
Ballasted to 1030kg
Pack Price
TWENTY-SEVEN,990 Euros incompatible VAT
To be confirmed
B ottom highway automobile price
TEN,990 Euros incompatible VAT
