Basically any GT car can run. There is no need for homologation anymore. The team must apply to FIA for car papers.
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Basically any GT car can run. There is no need for homologation anymore. The team must apply to FIA for car papers.
Would be great to add Targa Tasmania as a round for the category. I think would be a good event for them.
I'm afraid it isn't possible. Tasmania is too far away and too expensive. Competitors in GT-Class are mostly private European drivers.Quote:
Originally Posted by raybak
Guys, I didn't have time to follow the Rally France thread. Are there any good videos of the GT-cars available?
what about the Lotus R-GT does that still compete???
No, that project is dead.
Just found this short clip, amazing sound!Quote:
Originally Posted by Jarek Z
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v...type=2&theater
Here are 3.5 minutes of pure Porsche action at Rally de France: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzJguNWAVeMQuote:
Originally Posted by Jarek Z
Enjoy!
Thank you guys! This is exactly what I was looking for!
Very nice drive by romain Dumas in the Porsche in Tour de Corse. I think they getting close to the right power/weight ratio now!
This will be a great class to follow if more cars are approved!
Indeed @sulland, he as a circuit driver to be faster with RWD as Maghalhaes, Leandri, Tarabus, Tlustak, Pushar....well, if I would be in their skin, I wouldn't be proud of this fact....Quote:
Originally Posted by Sulland
Calling Dumas a circuit driver isn't accurate. He has been regularly doing rallies in Porsche for years. He has done at least 36 rallies (32 in Porsche) in last 6 years. That number comes from ewrc-results.com. I'm quite sure he has done even more.
And how many rallies did mentioned guys?? I think more, as they drive just rallies...and they drive cars designed for rally, 4WD, not a beast, which is almost undreivable in the wet.....Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
Dumas will drive anything - he's one of the most versatile drivers around; whether that is racing, rallying or Hillclimbing; and he's used to driving different types of cars in a short space of time; he's gone from driving an LMP car, to a WRCar, to a GT car and then a Historic car all in the space of a few weeks.
Latest events show GT class is becoming more and more competitive. I llllike it.
You called him circuit driver. For me somebody who did 6 seasons in rallying is not circuit driver but an experienced versatile driver. Call it as You wish but Dumas is one of the most experienced GT rally drivers in the world despite circuits being his primary playground.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ucci
Do anyone know what FIA now approves on a Porsche, compared to the start of the GT class, and what steps they have gone trough since they started individual homologations?
3 are missing with modern cars. Maybe some are missing with his old 911 SC.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
Quite a few of the Sportscar drivers do a bit of Rallying when the time allows. I know Timo Bernhard has done German rounds in a 911 GT3, and recently did an event in a 207 S2000. Guy Smith has also done a few events and a few RAC's in a Historic Escort MkII.
I think they enlarged restrictors.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sulland
If I understand translation correctly then Rally di Roma has been stopped after SS3 due to a heart attack of a driver in stage SS3.
http://www.rallylink.it/diretteweb/i...p/romacapitale
Yes, it is correct, the driver died unfortunately. Wrong thread though, nothing to do with GT class.Quote:
Originally Posted by HaCo
Sorry, wrong thread. :(
Yes, but do you know in what steps?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
Are any other brands than Porsche that teams or tuners tried to have cars homologated as R-GT with the new indi system?
It was not Porsche company who homologated those cars but single teams. It's not homologation but a kind of approval from FIA in a written form.
Tuthill denied UK start: http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/116740
Too bad, can he drive as 0 car maybe, or outside competition?
No idea if this is in any way realistic, but Italian driver Ruggero Ravaglioli would like to enter the RGT Cup - with a Ford Mustang!
http://www.maxrally.com/2014/12/17/rgt-american-style
Francois Delecour commits to inaugural R-GT Cup: http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/117305
Here is the article (since autosport is not totally free...)
Francois Delecour has committed to the FIA's new R-GT Cup series for GT cars in the World and European Rally Championships, securing a Porsche 911 drive for the inaugural season.
The Frenchman will start his campaign in a Tuthill Porsche on the Monte Carlo Rally later this month - an event he has won outright previously.
Delecour first drove the British team's Porsche 911 GT3 on the Rally of France last year, where he was trading times with the similar car of Romain Dumas when he slid off the road and damaged the car's radiator.
Since the Alsace event, Delecour's sole focus has been to source the budget for an R-GT assault.
"It is fantastic to be driving in [the] R-GT Cup, it's a fantastic opportunity," Delecour told AUTOSPORT.
"There are some really nice rallies, but for sure, Monte Carlo will be the most difficult. It's very important that we win this one."
Delecour will be testing the Porsche for two days in the French Alps next week and, despite having tackled the Monte 18 times previously, he acknowledges the scale of the task ahead.
"It will help to have some experience of this car on these roads before we start the rally," said Delecour, who is backed by Visit Romania.
"This will be a very, very difficult rally for this car. The Porsche is quite wide and some of these stages are narrow and tricky and, of course, we won't have the same grip as the four-wheel drive cars.
"It is fantastic to be driving this car again. You know, this is my rally, the Monte and to be here in a Porsche 911 is the dream for me."
The FIA's first ever rally series for GT cars also includes the Ypres Rally, Rally Germany, Rally Valais and the Tour of Corsica.
Francois Delacour has comitted to the championship for this year with Tuthill Porsche
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/117305
Edit: Too slow :D
It was posted in the video thread, but maybe more relevant here.
Looks good, sounds awsome! Shame they didn't let it run in Wales last yearQuote:
Originally Posted by lewalcindor
Really nice. It doesn't look that undriveable and it's for sure spectacular! Plus of course the best sound of all recent rallycars. All in all it seems to be much better than I thought :)
Yeah, Tuthill seem to be done great job
He does mention that he is running without a silencer in the video. So I guessing that for the WRC they have to run a silencer? Still sounds better than anything the WRC at the moment either way.
It seems that Finns have taken on converting Aston Martin Vantage V8 to the RGT rules - http://www.mat.fi/gallery/85
Prodrive tried it once, was rubbish. The only RGT other than Porsche that had some potential was the Lotus. Cars like the Aston or a Nissan 370Z aren't efficient enough, with no weight pushing on the driven wheels...Quote:
Originally Posted by Franky
http://www.mat.fi/images/gallery/85/6.jpg
Attachment 451
p.s. this must be some student's joke. watch the fotos at your own risk.
There was one competing in the Australian Rally Championship as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by tommeke_B
Key word being 'was'.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86AKZ8O7zeY&sns=fb
to ArcticRally Rovaniemi 23-24.1. MR Mäkelä himself will drive it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Franky
Is that Mäkelä the guy who makes such beautiful restorations of cars and publishes all the photos?Quote:
Originally Posted by pantealex
The guy who rebuilt the GpB Celicas better than new and the Ford Model T with BDA?
Yes, last year he drove totally rebuilt ex.Grönholm red 206 WRC and year before that Alitalia Ferrari 308 GTB on snow.Quote:
Originally Posted by janvanvurpa
look "Finnish Championship" discussion