The Škoda Fabia Rally2 evo (former name prior to 2019 rule changes was R5 evo) is a rally car built by Škoda Motorsport. It is an upgraded generational update of the original Fabia R5, based on the facelifted Škoda Fabia production car. After four years of success in the R5 discipline with the original Fabia, Škoda announced the Fabia R5 evo at the Geneva Motor Show in March 2019. The car was showcased as an improvement over the 2015 Fabia in nearly all areas, most notably the power and response of the engine. After many kilometers of testing, The Evo passed international homologation on the 1st of April 2019, and made its competitive rallying debut in the hands of Jan Kopecký at the third round of the Czech Rally Championship, Rallye Český Krumlov. The car would make a successful first impression, winning the rally overall. Soon after it would make its World Rally Championship debut at Rally de Portugal, where it would once again emerge victorious in the hands of Kalle Rovanperä.
Rally victories World Rally Championship-2 Pro Year No. Event Surface Driver Co-driver 2019 1 2019 Rally de Portugal Gravel Kalle Rovanperä Jonne Halttunen 2 2019 Rally Italia Sardegna Gravel Kalle Rovanperä Jonne Halttunen 3 2019 Rally Finland Gravel Kalle Rovanperä Jonne Halttunen 4 2019 Rallye Deutschland Tarmac Jan Kopecký Pavel Dresler 5 2019 Wales Rally GB Gravel Kalle Rovanperä Jonne HalttunenSources:
World Rally Championship-2 Year No. Event Surface Driver Co-driver 2019 1 2019 Rallye Deutschland Tarmac Fabian Kreim Tobias Braun 2020 2 2020 Rally Mexico Gravel Pontus Tidemand Patrik Barth 3 2020 Rally Turkey Gravel Pontus Tidemand Patrik Barth 4 2020 Rally Italia Sardegna Gravel Pontus Tidemand Patrik Barth2021 5 2021 Monte Carlo Rally Mixed Andreas Mikkelsen Ola Fløene 6 2021 Rally Estonia Gravel Andreas Mikkelsen Ola Fløene 7 2021 Acropolis Rally Gravel Andreas Mikkelsen Elliott Edmondson 2022 8 2022 Monte Carlo Rally Mixed Andreas Mikkelsen Torstein Eriksen 9 2022 Rally Sweden Snow Andreas Mikkelsen Torstein Eriksen 10 2022 Rally Italia Sardegna Gravel Nikolay Gryazin Konstantin Aleksandrov 11 2022 Safari Rally Gravel Kajetan Kajetanowicz Maciej Szczepaniak 12 2022 Rally Estonia Gravel Andreas Mikkelsen Torstein Eriksen 13 2022 Rally Finland Gravel Emil Lindholm Reeta Hämäläinen 14 2022 Acropolis Rally Gravel Emil Lindholm Reeta Hämäläinen 2023 15 2023 Safari Rally Gravel Kajetan Kajetanowicz Maciej SzczepaniakSources:
World Rally Championship-3 Year No. Event Surface Driver Co-driver 2020 1 2020 Rally Turkey Gravel Kajetan Kajetanowicz Maciej Szczepaniak 2 2020 Rally Monza Tarmac Andreas Mikkelsen Anders Jæger 2021 3 2021 Arctic Rally Snow Teemu Asunmaa Marko Salminen 4 2021 Croatia Rally Tarmac Kajetan Kajetanowicz Maciej Szczepaniak 5 2021 Rally de Portugal Gravel Kajetan Kajetanowicz Maciej Szczepaniak 6 2021 Rally Estonia Gravel Alexey Lukyanuk Yaroslav Fedorov 7 2021 Acropolis Rally Gravel Kajetan Kajetanowicz Maciej Szczepaniak 8 2021 Rally Finland Gravel Emil Lindholm Reeta Hämäläinen 9 2021 Rally Catalunya Tarmac Emil Lindholm Reeta HämäläinenSources:
European Rally Championship Year No. Event Surface Driver Co-driver 2019 1 2019 Barum Czech Rally Zlín Tarmac Jan Kopecký Pavel Dresler 2020 2 2020 Rally Hungary Tarmac Andreas Mikkelsen Ola Fløene 2021 3 2021 Rally di Roma Capitale Tarmac Giandomenico Basso Lorenzo Granai 4 2021 Barum Czech Rally Zlín Tarmac Jan Kopecký Jan Hloušek 5 2021 Azores Rallye Gravel Andreas Mikkelsen Elliott Edmondson 6 2021 Rally Serras de Fafe e Felgueiras Gravel Andreas Mikkelsen Elliott Edmondson 2022 7 2022 Azores Rallye Gravel Efrén Llarena Sara Fernández 8 2022 Rally Poland Gravel Mikołaj Marczyk Szymon Gospodarczyk 9 2022 Rally Liepāja Gravel Mārtiņš Sesks Renārs Francis 10 2022 Rally di Roma Capitale Tarmac Damiano De Tommaso Giorgia Ascalone 11 2022 Barum Czech Rally Zlín Tarmac Jan Kopecký Jan HloušekSources:
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Car specification Škoda Fabia Rally2 evo at eWRC-results.com