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Thread: The future of PWRC
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29th March 2009, 17:40 #21Originally Posted by janvanvurpa
http://argent.fia.com/web/fia-public.nsf/AC5311D1EC4418A7C12574FF0052C049/$FILE/260D%20(2009)-15112008.pdfDont eat the yellow snow Frank Zappa
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30th March 2009, 04:03 #22
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Originally Posted by OldF
I believe you, man, I don't believe FISArna.
28mm.....
What were they thinking..............oi oi oi oi...
OK that's it, it will cost MORE now.
Those gawddam restrictors are a huge expense. I believe the 34mm restrictor has driven a lot of the bad changes we have seen since the early to mid 90s particularly the insanely expensive sequential paddle shift gearboxes.
John Taylor at Ford Motorsport suggested in the late 90s that the rules should be changed to make the gearbox used be only a series production gearbox from a series of 25,000 min.
He suggested that that way the car factories would be forced to make a production run of good strong gearboxes and they would be forced to get them reliable. And at 25,000 units the cost would be lower enough that eventually even I could afford one.
He also suggested 2,0 non turbos and he said ''to those who say performance would suffer with 2,0 motors and series production gearboxes I suggest they simply look at the many Japanese high performance road motorcycles. They make power similar in output to our engines and their gearboxes last 10s of thousands of miles''
Now that would be interesting because for the first time since the early GpA days the man on the street could get a car very close to what was rallied by works teams--------and when rally was most popular was when things appeared closest.John Vanlandingham
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30th March 2009, 09:18 #23
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Originally Posted by janvanvurpa
Is there a better sound than that of Porsche engined Flat-6 ???
With 8-9 Rally1 cars per rally, things are desperate enough for commentators to not judge participating drivers too harshly.
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