Rally Car Body Repair

[Tarmop]

Paint is not very popular on WRC cars i believe.

[Kris82]

Thanks for the answers guys I appreciate your input.

you have some strange fetish about panels? your job revolves around that? or you are just weird ?

I'm just weird . It's the part of rallying that is rarely covered since it takes place behind the scenes and isn't as fascinating as the technical or competitive aspects. The link you provided doesn't answer my question. But thanks for trying .

[Kris82]

Cut the damaged bits of, pull it straight, put new pieces back. Like any other car ( exept most of the time it`s cheaper for an insurance company to buy it and pay the market value).
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Pics by E. Sups

In the end it looked like a new and shiny red evo again.

Great pictures. Tell the whole story. The car is basically completely rebuilt with body sections or panels from the scrap yard. I bet in the case of WRC they use brand new spare body panels they got ready for situations like this. Wish there were actual official videos showing how it's handled. It's fascinating stuff. Much more time and work consuming then mechanical work.