From www.wrc.com
Suzuki will field two cars in every
round of the 2005 World Rally Championship as it assesses a
possible graduation to a full programme with a World Rally Car in
the future.
Reigning Junior World Rally Champion Per-Gunnar Andersson and Guy
Wilks will drive Suzuki Super 1600 cars in every round of the 2005
World Rally Championship. The pair will again contest the JWRC and
will also compete in all the WRC rounds that are not part of the
JWRC, using cars built to the same specification in the A6
class.
Monster Sport Europe, the British-based team which ran Andersson to
the Junior world title this year, will field a two-car squad of
Andersson and Wilks, who was third in the 2004 JWRC, on every World
Championship rally in 2005.
Drivers can only score on seven of the eight JWRC rounds and both
Andersson and Wilks will nominate France as the round in which they
will not score points.
The campaign will begin with the
familiar five-door Ignis model, but that will be replaced
mid-season by the new Swift Super 1600 car.
Suzuki says it will use the full 2005 World Rally Championship
programme in order to gain more experience of the events and
evaluate the possibility of participation at the highest
level.
JWRC frontrunners Kosti Katajamaki and Urmo Aava will also contest
the JWRC in Suzukis. The Finn and the Estonian will have an Ignis
each for their campaigns. They will miss the round in Mexico which
they will nominate as their non-scoring round.
