Mitsubishi WRC 2001- Lancer Evo and Carisma GT

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While looking at a website I realised something weird about the two cars that Mitsubishi World Rally Team ran in 2001. They used two different models. Their first driver Tommi Makinen drove a Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 6, and the second driver drove a Mitsubishi Carisma GT. I can not see the point of this as running two different models of cars surley must have cost them more money to run. Does anyone know why they ran two different models?
 
While looking at a website I realised something weird about the two cars that Mitsubishi World Rally Team ran in 2001. They used two different models. Their first driver Tommi Makinen drove a Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 6, and the second driver drove a Mitsubishi Carisma GT. I can not see the point of this as running two different models of cars surely must have cost them more money to run. Does anyone know why they ran two different models?

Well maybe because they wanted to test the new car without risking a lot. They can test the Carisma GT and still have a competitive car like the Evo VI. It actually saves more money than running both new cars that maybe have many problems or run both older cars that maybe becomes uncompetitive. Many motor sports does this to test the new cars potential as well as having an older car which can be competitive.

I don't know many teams that do that, but I remembered Ferrari did this once. They both include the F2004 and the F2005 during the 2005 F1 season. After a few races and they find that the newer cars were competitive, they change the old car with the new one and the team ran the team with both new cars.

Hope that helps. :)
 
Well maybe because they wanted to test the new car without risking a lot. They can test the Carisma GT and still have a competitive car like the Evo VI. It actually saves more money than running both new cars that maybe have many problems or run both older cars that maybe becomes uncompetitive. Many motor sports does this to test the new cars potential as well as having an older car which can be competitive.

I don't know many teams that do that, but I remembered Ferrari did this once. They both include the F2004 and the F2005 during the 2005 F1 season. After a few races and they find that the newer cars were competitive, they change the old car with the new one and the team ran the team with both new cars.

Hope that helps. :)
Yes it does. However, the Lancer was the old car, but they ran the Carisma GT along side it for the whole season. But next season (2002), they only ran Lancers.

Edit: Perhaps the Carisma was not so succesful so they decided they would no longer use it as a world rally car.
 
Ah, the good old "let's market the Carisma too" idea. There was no such a thing as a Carisma GT rally car, it was the very same Lancer Evo (they also did it with the Evo IV in 1997 as well as Evo V in 1998) under a different name for marketing purposes. 👍
 
Ah, the good old "let's market the Carisma too" idea. There was no such a thing as a Carisma GT rally car, it was the very same Lancer Evo (they also did it with the Evo IV in 1997 as well as Evo V in 1998) under a different name for marketing purposes. 👍
And I always thought they looked similar to each other!
 
http://root.cern.ch/~rdm/Carisma.html hmm.....perhaps this exists because they had to build a certain amount for it to be run under the Carisma name, still interesting nonetheless.

http://cache.viewimages.com/xc/5579...B32A45B2BDCFBD8F90A5FEDCF6232A55A1E4F32AD3138 Freddys Carisma of course.

Standard Carisma http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/2000_carisma.jpg/250px-2000_carisma.jpg

Lancer WRC http://pictures.topspeed.com/IMG/crop-460x345/mitsubishi-lancer-evolution-wrc-0010_dw.jpg

And here, Carisma Tommi Makinen edition http://www.km77.com/marcas/mitsubishi/carisma_00/makinen/texto.asp

I thiknk Mitsubishi just confused themselves:p
 
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