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    Quote Originally Posted by WRCStan View Post
    Mild hybrid what the privateer wants is it?
    don't know, but is what stellantis definitely want. (they openly asked it more than once)

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    I could see a Rally2 Hybrid side class being created for manu teams and WRC2 primarly, with privateers and national championships run with old cars.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AnttiL View Post
    I could see a Rally2 Hybrid side class being created for manu teams and WRC2 primarly, with privateers and national championships run with old cars.
    I can't, that'd threaten the existence of an already too fragile Rally1 whilst not serving the manufacturer unless they subscribed to the same costs anyway, something Skoda don't want to do either - but at least they have Rally2 sales, which would have to have hybrid forced onto the customer, which would only work if it's cheap, reliable, free IP... can't see it.

    It might be coming to Rally1 soon though lol.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PLuto View Post
    If they dont, most of the competitors will wait. If somebody wants Skoda, they will take older Skoda Fabia Rally1 Evo rather than Citroen/Hyundai/Ford...
    Are they still building new chassis of the old car? I thought they stopped that some time ago.

    I still can’t agree on the logic with not running the new car. Apart from the promotion issue, I would have thought it would be quite useful for them to see how it performs on a real rally ahead of next season starting, instead of it just sitting around gathering dust for another few months.

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    Quote Originally Posted by WRCStan View Post
    Mild hybrid what the privateer wants is it?
    They do not, because

    - Cars will be more costly to buy
    - Cars will be more advanced and harder and more costly to maintain.
    - It takes time to get a good 2. hand market for people to start. Today you can buy an old Fabia R5 and fight in the top, in national series. Would be stupid from FIA to kill off the most successful carclass they have.

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    I'm not sure hybrid in rally cars does much at all for selling road cars, even with the Rally1's. Putting it in Rally2's would have little effect for the promotion of it on the road models which have been around for years already.

    If anyone takes anything from rallying to decide their purchase its probably sportiness, toughness and reliability.

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    plan with Mikkelsen in new Fabia @lausitzrallye

    https://forum.rallye-magazin.de/thre...itz-einsetzen/

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    Quote Originally Posted by CWJ View Post
    plan with Mikkelsen in new Fabia @lausitzrallye

    https://forum.rallye-magazin.de/thre...itz-einsetzen/
    Weird.

    He is testing in a snazzy new livery at the moment: https://twitter.com/AM89news/status/...trzz8rSdw&s=19

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    https://www.rallit.fi/rallit-fi-palj...ssa-yleisolta/

    Toyota has tested their new Rally2 car last week, but it's still all officially a secret.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AnttiL View Post
    https://www.rallit.fi/rallit-fi-palj...ssa-yleisolta/

    Toyota has tested their new Rally2 car last week, but it's still all officially a secret.
    Finally some good news in the Rally2 thread!
    http://www.rallymadness.prv.pl - rally photos and movies!

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