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    WRC cars 3-5 years from now

    In this new thread/topic I think it´s time to discuss how the WRC cars should be in the future, regarding todays circumstances: very, very expensive, making less drivers having a seat.

    But also will they be electrified in the coming years?

    My very own thoughts is as follows; maybe we should take some steps back. maybe having top WRC-class be a cheaper (than today) R5 class? To get interest from a spectator point of view the only recipy is making them sound louder. That satisfies most of the average Joes.

    What do you think, fellow rally fans? Just go on say your thoughts!
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    No, average Joe isn`t satisfied only from that...the idea is good, but...no.

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    Competive view the R5 or R5+ would be perfect but as a spectator point of view high performance WRC cars are a must.

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    Current WRC cars are quite bastards, that means spectacular, though indeed more expensive. I think going to R5 as top category will be huge step backwards, may be some R5+ with bigger engines like 2.4l M-Sport had once with active diff could be a good replacement. But probably the future is in electrics, half or full way.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tarmop View Post
    No, average Joe isn`t satisfied only from that...the idea is good, but...no.
    I believe we have too high expectations from AJ, because average Joe doesn´t know a thing about rallycars. Just that they should sound and slide is enough. I strongly believe that satisfies him.

    And drivers have even more to be perfect in the driving...
    Last edited by Rallyper; 1st December 2018 at 19:17.
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    Or why not go back to RWD or FWD cars?
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    No, please not that.

    WRC cars must stay brutal and spectacular or nobody will care. It's a marketing tool after all and the manus need attention. Orherwise they will go elsewhere.

    In 3-5 years the cars will be for sure somewhat hybridized. That won't make them any cheaper but it is a political must to show some sort of environmental thinking. For me the ideal thing would be use of electric turbos for existing combustion engines and nothing else. The fuel consumption would be reduced dramatically without ALS and the impact on spectacle would be very little.

    And forget about larger engine capacity. Nobody needs to promote large engines but exactly the opposite.

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    awd is best thing ever happend to wrc.

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    If R5 with maximum price 250.000 is top class (or what ever class name and top price)
    It will make no profit to manufacturers after maybe 1st year, because every team will use so much too expensive stuff to their cars.

    Even now every new R5 makes less profit than older ones because building faster cars takes more money all the time
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    Yes, making R5 the top category would most likely lead to making R5 more expensive then they are now.

    Actually I am quite positively surprised that FIA managed to keep the R5 prices on the more or less same level for all the time.

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