Here in SA the top 8 at the end of day 1 is shuffled. Leader gets to pick where he wants to start, then the second placed driver etc. On dry smooth rallies the running order normally ends up reversed. It seems to work quite well.
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Here in SA the top 8 at the end of day 1 is shuffled. Leader gets to pick where he wants to start, then the second placed driver etc. On dry smooth rallies the running order normally ends up reversed. It seems to work quite well.
The plan is more rally experience for son. If Sr is not racing le mans series he doing rally.Quote:
Originally Posted by MikeD
I think there is no change of a Merksteijn manufacturer team.
8 events is enough to qualify as a MT next year and I still think that will be the case if there are 13 events in 2009.Quote:
Originally Posted by MikeD
They could if they wanted to. The IRC has grown and in some ways appeals more to people than the WRC. If they told the FIA to take a hike and got a little more creative thay could be the worlds premier rally championship within a few years. It wouldn't take much the way the WRC is right now.Quote:
Originally Posted by DonJippo
maybe... the reason I enjoy rally is to see cars that are fair beyond that of normal cars... AWD turbo beasts... straight up S2000 cars are slow and boring... I can't see the appeal for IRC... just because citroen is owning the rest of the manufactures doesn't mean anything is broke... it just means citroen is a better rally team...Quote:
Originally Posted by Saabaru
S2000 cars are neither slow nor boring. Remember Grp N. Lancers are AWD and turbo and much slower than S2000 cars now. S2000 has made a lot of progress in the last year or so and I expect that to continue next year when hopefully Skoda and Peugeot will push each other on.Quote:
Originally Posted by Torsen
Obviously WRCars are faster than S2000 cars and always will be, but I find modern WRCars very boring to watch. I honestly don't think the average man on the street would notice a great deal of difference watching S2000 compared to WRC, at least on TV.
I would be quite happy to see S200turbo as originally propsed however as this should be more spectacular to watch than either current World Rally Cars or S2000. But it sounds like the formulae the manufacturers want is moving far too close to the current WRCars now anyway.
They need to get it sorted and soon! It seems as if there are 3 of the 4 WRCteams continued participation is under question at the moment.
I dont know if someone has mentioned anything similar, but this is just a possible idea for the road position problem.
Seen as most rallies seem to have some sort of Super Special at the end of Day 1 and 2, why not increase the spectacle of what are simple run around stages and use them in some way to decide road positions.
Maybe you could have the top 8 cars have a type of shootout on a short spectator stage. The driver with the fastest time gets to pick their road position, the second gets to pick next and so on. The times on the special stage just get added to the overall rally time as is the case now. Obviously someone from outside the top 8 could win the stage, but this whole idea would be just for setting the top eight places on the road.
I think this would be good because it encourages drivers to go flat out, which is always a good thing in my opinion. It also places more emphasis on stages that have become boring to most rally fans. The layout of a super special means their can be no underhand tactics.
This rule isn't really much of a stretch to implement in my eyes. A lot of the tarmac rallies dont have SSS's but road sweeping is no a problem on these events.
Hänninen will drive in Spain and Corsica.
that is a good point... i just see the way the S2000 cars pull away out of a slow turn and they engine screams but no torque... it depresses me...Quote:
Originally Posted by RS
Just watching the "eye in the sky" from Rally NZ now, i doubt that you will get these kinda slides with an S2000 car...