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8th April 2010, 16:55 #1
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The future of the WRC (my vision)
Lets face it, the WRC has seen better years. This is my idea of making things good again.
In my view, WRC cars should be bigger(around the same size as an Audi Quattro), 2.5 litre engine, generating around 380-400 bhp. Control specification sequential gearbox, no electronic driving aids and an open tyre formula. Only 10 examples of the car used would have to be produced, encouraging more innovate designs. This effectively makes the car a combination of Group B, Group S and Super 2000. With car safety more sophisticated than back in the 80's, cars would be more exciting to watch and as safe as today's current WRC cars
I would have around 10 events, 2 of which would be 2 week long cross country raids.
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8th April 2010, 17:06 #2
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you have some very good ideas there....very cheap also.
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8th April 2010, 17:48 #3
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Cheers for your response. I would also ditch the useless and greedy North One sport as promoter.
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8th April 2010, 17:56 #4
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Originally Posted by tech3Aja kovaa Pena.
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8th April 2010, 18:02 #5
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I like it.. What about greedy guys who wants to sell their cars for 500 000GBP + vat (10 is not enough for them)?
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8th April 2010, 19:50 #6
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Nice ideas but you cant limit it to making 10 cars because by that you would kill priveteer competition
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8th April 2010, 20:37 #7
Visually and technically I like it but I dont think manufacturers will go for it.
Personally, Id like a formula that is basically Group N.
Ie. Take any car, turbo charge the stock engine, add a front mount inter cooler, use a control ECU (ie. Motec/Autronic), add roll cage, add dampers and bolt on suspension modifications and add required safety gear.
As for drive line teams can choose to use a mixture of stock components, off the shelf after market parts, and or an array specifically developed parts as described by the FIA (like how S2000 cars use a common drive line).
One thing to emphasize that the strength of components can only be increased by re-enforcing a stock component rather than redesigning a new component specifically for rallying. The trade off is extra weight from reinforced components adds weight to the car and lessens performance.
The end result is a battle for teams to find a balance between reliability and outright speed.
I dont see how any manufacturer could not have a competative car for under AU $200,000, if not less.
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8th April 2010, 21:17 #8
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Originally Posted by grugsticles
If they were cheaper and closer to production vehicles we could see a lot more competitive privateers in the WRC. Mostly running in a wrx or evo, but maybe even a TTS quattro, or a 997 on tarmac.
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9th April 2010, 01:21 #9
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Originally Posted by serial jeff
of rallying. If i want to see some standard cars i'll go watch a local rally.
For the world championship i would like to see purpose built cars
like Grp A or WRC cars. They are appealing to me because they are advanced cars that are fast and powerful without being as extreme as the GrpB cars.
If i would put the effort, time and money on attending a wrc rally i would like to get good value in return.
And grp N (and to some extent <=S2k) cars alone wont give me that value.
IMO all this simplification and cost saving just devaluates the
World Rally Championship from a pinnacle to some standard b-series.
Its like FIA would transform F1 to GP2/3 standards.
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9th April 2010, 06:52 #10
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One of the disappointing things I see about the WRC is that the cars are so fragile these days.
Once upon a time, drivers could have a rollover, push the car back on it's wheels and keep going.
I have a photo on my wall of Sainz's car on it's side (from 2004?) - the text below it says that he finished the event on the podium. Compare that to Hirvonen's experience in Jordan rally.
Longer, harder stages and more robust cars would make the competition more interesting (but less close).
quick doubt: is this "citroen team" in wrc a "factory" team? i know its a team from belgium, but i dont understand if it is actual citroen behind them, like in motocross where kimi raikkonen's team...
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