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I really can't see any reason why they couldn't allow Rally 2 Kit in WRC3. After all the kits are mainly intedned for countries overseas and there is no reason not to allow them to start in WRC3. It...

There was a very important point given by someone here on the forum few years ago. There are places where a vehicle import tax makes R5 cars enormously expensive. In these places these kit cars...

R2 with 4WD would be very boring car to watch I am afraid. Too badly underpowered.

Nice, looks definitely faster and more spectacular than any gr.N car.

No, there is no class allowing such prototype cars on the internation level.

Already answered many times in this thread and usually it was You who asked about that.

Good luck with tracking such cars in South America or on some remote islands.

I am sure You know that even the current ewrc database has many mistakes in it.

How do You want to realistically track cars which are not being build by the factory? You can not just physically go to every event and check it personally (quite often You would not be allowed to do...

Importers yes, but manufacturers hardly.

This is actually a very valid point which we somehow failed to mention before...

Evo is much bigger compared to those proto cars, it's heavy and it has very short suspension travel. All of that plays huge difference.

What gearbox do the proto cars have? H-pattern dogbox or...

You said that sending a youngster from R2 to R5 is not a good idea (and that's what I answered to) and now You say that it's no problem if there are money. That doesn't make any sense.

Sorry but Katsuta isn't proof for anything. Some drivers never stop crashing (see Meeke), some can never be fast as some others and that's perfectly natural (with Katsuta the real question is why is...

I disagree with You. I can see that the R2 - R5 step works very well. I would say near perfect as countless examples show (even here in CZ the good R2 drivers are immediately fast also with R5).

As discussed already. The price which is or isn't affordable is very relative and it's mostly depending on the prestige of the said championship/class. Unless You spend Your own money on rallying of...

Why should it die out when there is more and more R5 around every year?

It wasn't any better in the years before. ERC2 and ERC3 have never been popular.

OMG, how is that cheaper to buy a completely new car when I have one and faster?

That makes more sense but I fail to see why it shall attract more drivers than today when the eligible car would be twice more expensive than today. Take into account that there were only four...

Again whyyyyy? Why should anyone do that when every top team in Europe has R5? Sorry but have You come from Mars? What You suggest is complete nonsense.

For what? Cheaper ERC classes have been around for ages yet very few took part (ERC2 for gr.N cars, ERC3 for 2WD cars). ERC doesn't need more new classes. It shall work on what works, i.e. mainly U28...

That's not what I have said. The point is that You can hardly get SAME or SIMILAR money from the sponsors to compete somewhere in lower classes. That's why the cars in lower classes must be...

Sorry but no such class exists in the current FIA scheme. Both R5 and R4 are RC2 class.

Besides that it's clear that overall results are the most important for the sponsors and a car sitting one...

AFAIK no

It doesn't work like that. To have money from sponsors you need results (unelss it's your own money, aka Al Quassimi & co. style and in that case you usually don't have a need for cost saving). That...