How difficult was it to prepare the new project?
The preparation of the project was surprisingly not too difficult. The biggest challenge was to build essentially the whole car, but at a significantly lower costs than building the new FABIA Rally2 evo, so that we could invest the money saved in the development of a sharp competition car.
Did you work with real racing parts or did you model some components specifically for the skeleton?
The vast majority of the parts used is the same as in a real race car. However, in order to minimize waste, we tried to select such parts that could not be installed in customer ŠKODA FABIA Rally2 evo cars for quality or other reasons. In the event of us not having such a part available or it not being easily adapted from a technical point of view, a new part was used, which happened, for example, with the exhaust or windows.
Which part of the car was the most challenging to cut?
Historically, we knew from the previous skeleton that cutting a wheel disc is problematic. In the end, it worked out great as the entire wheel assembly was cut at once, including the brake and wheel head, and the result looks great. In addition, thanks to the special cutting technique, we managed to preserve the integrity of the wheel head, which can be replaced with a standard wheel and the whole skeleton can be pushed off and moved to the desired event more easily.