Rally2 (ex-R5) News

[leighton323]

It looks like we must change the name of this topic very soon. Actual R5 will live only one month...

More info here

That has to be a joke right.. What purpose would changing the names around serve at all?

[Jack4688`]

confusing everybody...

[Sulland]

Apart for us in the congregation, this change makes perfect sense and follow the single seater logic. F1 is the quickest, F2 second quickest and so on. Even my wife knows this fact, and most other people on earth.

We will swap our brain in three weeks, the rest does not know what a R3 car is, so not to worry!

[Jack4688`]

You make a good point. I saw it as a pointless exercise - almost as if someone from FISA in the 80s wanted to change Group B to Group A, Group A to Group B and Group N to Group C etc. It almost doesn't matter - it's just a name.

But likening it to F1, F2, F3 shows it's a logical move I guess...

[leighton323]

Apart for us in the congregation, this change makes perfect sense and follow the single seater logic. F1 is the quickest, F2 second quickest and so on. Even my wife knows this fact, and most other people on earth.

We will swap our brain in three weeks, the rest does not know what a R3 car is, so not to worry!

But to partial fans of the sport or people who do not necessarily follow the rules and regulations that closely, wouldn't it just prove to be way more confusing. Think of it from the point of view of just being a casual rally fan who attends local events and watches only what they see on t.v but does not follow it online. I can see the sense but the benefits of changing the names around wouldn't be worth the confusion. The R-Class regulations were put in place in the first place to try and tidy up the classes and to solve this confusion around classes..

[Mirek]

It's a gigantic stupid joke from FIA.

Yes, it has a logic to name cars like F1-F2 BUT only if it is like that right from the start not after 6 years with hundreds of cars existing!

You can not rename all homologation forms, all sporting passes for every car around the world when it already exists. What will now come is an incredible mess in every possible point of view.

[TheFlyingTuga]

And not to mention that the 1-2-3(...) only was used for Formula racing. In normal cars converted to spec racers, there's always been from 1-pretty much normal to a higher number!

Gr.1 to Gr.5 (Gr.6 where sport prototypes)
N1 to N4, and A5 to A8

It's stupid! So... know my friends got a Ford Fiesta R1... and a Peugeot 208 R4!!! Classy hahahaha

[Andre Oliveira]

Ford Fiesta R5+ won an event by Matthew Wilson: http://www.rallying-images.com/s/cc_ima ... 1385845169

What car it is? An upgrade of normal R5?

Btw, classification: http://ewrc-results.com/final.php?e=135 ... tages-2013

[dimviii]

Ford Fiesta R5+ won an event by Matthew Wilson: http://www.rallying-images.com/s/cc_ima ... 1385845169

What car it is? An upgrade of normal R5?

Btw, classification: http://ewrc-results.com/final.php?e=135 ... tages-2013

?irek

[mousti]

After the S2400 now this??