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17th June 2023, 20:02 #11
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I appreciate your argument for BOP but still rallying stayed true to straight regulations for so long and had a working championship competion wise (=> most/all cars being on a similar level most of the time) almost all of the time in the last 30 years. Also I don't think that the cost of the cars or their fairly limited development is the big budget factor, otherwise M Sport wouldn't be able to come out with a competitive car on a shoe string and than stay in the hunt for at least 2-3 years. Rallying is just hugely expensive when you consider what all goes with it compared to running a similarly "complicated" car in a professional circuit racing championship for 13 races.
The reason the cost cap increased the value of teams is because there is revenue in F1 which thanks to the cost cap is now in many cases bigger than the cost, but that revenue doesn't exist in WRC. So we would need the foundation first to achieve a sort of franchise status that F1 now has. Of course a cost cap could still work even without that, but would it entice manufacturers on its own?
Was looking forward to shakedown in the morning....and its tomorrow
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