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20th January 2024, 12:31 #661
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Evans says 'everything we have is massively expensive"..
But if it is mainly the carbon fibre panels surely the rules could've easily banned them and have them made of metal ?
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20th January 2024, 12:33 #662
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How cheaply can you make all bespoke body panels though? The Puma is most obvious example where the overall look of the road car is the same, but how much is actually shared with it?
Other than lights, do they have to use a standard (modified) bonnet? Windows? The wings and doors clearly aren’t based on the road car shape as the height of the bonnet and flanks of a Puma are much lower on the Rally1 version than the road car.
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20th January 2024, 15:22 #663
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They need to introduce lots of spec parts to try to keep costs down.
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20th January 2024, 17:22 #664
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nobody is stopping them from making those parts in polyester and saving a lot of money.
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20th January 2024, 23:24 #665
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These space frame cars don't have to be the same size as the production model - a rule intended to encourage maufacturers that didn't have a car the right size to fit the Rally1 dimensions to enter a look-alike of a slightly bigger model. That means all bespoke panels which rules out metal panels because of the tooling costs to make them.
Requiring the body panels to be GRP and banning carbon would make some cost savings on the material but the tooling and labour would still be the same so the saving wouldn't be as big as you might expect.
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22nd January 2024, 20:53 #666
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23rd January 2024, 06:28 #668
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Heard that last year too…
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23rd January 2024, 06:54 #669
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Tänak got 20 points closer to Evans, but as the main reason was a bad rally for Evans, I would say that Evans lost 20 points to Tänak, not Tänak gained. The point is, if the other one does not...
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