Rally Discussion and Bar Talk Thread

[WRCStan]

I have never met anybody who was interested in it. Here in Europe we only know the name Baja, but not much more. But those cars look impressive!

I guess an interest in trucks and great expanses of open country help, inversely we here all know and love a little hatchback and have roads leading to almost every square kilometre on the continent. However, there's nothing in these videos that doesn't look it'll stump a Rally1, so what makes it off-roading? They are all following the same course which is worn like something from Kenya or Sardinia.

An FIA system Baja will be a rally, but the one that gave them the name, the Baja 1000, is a race not a rally, and SCORE is not a FIA member associate.

[Rallyper]

I was once wondering why there is a Lancia Delta called Baja:
https://pixarcars.pl/lancia-delta-in...ja-blazers-610
and never found the answer!

I remember back in the 60´s Saab factory team was competing in Baja 1000. If I´m correct they won their class, or maybe even overall.

[Jarek Z]

I remember back in the 60´s Saab factory team was competing in Baja 1000. If I´m correct they won their class, or maybe even overall.

It is probably this story:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsWgEvYM5Jo

[Rallyper]

It is probably this story:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsWgEvYM5Jo

Aahh. You see. My memory still works.

1969 then. White Saab, better in the warmth. Simo Lampinen would like the colour.

[240RS]

Nicky Grist and Juha Kankkunen put together a rather interesting chat recently.

Quite revealing to hear them say they were shocked to pull away from Colin McRae at a Super Special with ease.

https://youtu.be/hQJ5Hsz6AAI?si=kcgFiYY5XBsbFo_A

[seb_sh]

Nicky Grist and Juha Kankkunen put together a rather interesting chat recently.

Quite revealing to hear them say they were shocked to pull away from Colin McRae at a Super Special with ease.

https://youtu.be/hQJ5Hsz6AAI?si=kcgFiYY5XBsbFo_A

enjoyed watching that, thanks!

[Eli]

I was wondering, watching the highlights of both the 2007 & 2009 editions of Rally Ireland, why did it fail? how come we never saw it again on the calendar and is there any chance Bobby Willis will succeed in bringing it back in one way or another to the calendar? It looks like it could be a unique tarmac event imho.

[Tauri_J]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5IC...atteoRaggi-VBB

[NaBUru38]

The president of Paraguay received WRC representatives to host a 2025 race in Encarnación, Itapúa Department.

https://www.motorpy.com/revive-el-su...rc-a-paraguay/

[EstWRC]

Abiteboul said: “What I regret is that we don’t have the structure of discussion to talk these things through, and being able to share and express opinions, and being able to form a consensus.

“We don’t have that [in WRC], but in Formula 1 we do have that. We’ve got lots of opportunities to talk to the FIA, the promoter. We may agree, disagree, and get to some sort of conclusion. We try things out, sometimes they succeed, sometimes they fail. But at least it’s a moving thing.

The Hyundai team principal reflected on the specific situation from that day in Japan as the perfect proof of his point.

“We want to see beautiful cars in extreme conditions,” he said. “But we would like to [actually] see them. Because frankly this morning (Friday) there was not much to see, the [live video] coverage was not excellent, there were not that many cameras around the road. I think that was poor.


https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/the-f...pling-the-wrc/