Rally Chile Biobio 2025

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Originally Posted by Rallyper

Is this the way championship`should be decided?

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Manufacturers? Absolutely.

Brilliant stage from Ogier. Joy to watch

BTW by the Rules if Ott will use 3rd engine tomorrow +5min will apply in Chile? If yes so why they didn't fit new engine today, get +5min today and go for full points at Sunday.
If they still fit new engine for Sunday they scrap Sunday with +5min penalty already, but got 3 rally with new engine.
If they not - any of 3 next rally will be under threat of 'another engine failure'

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Originally Posted by Rallyper

Is this the way championship`should be decided?

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Reliability is part of the game, normally people can deal with it but if it happens at the "right" moment everybody is up in arms like sport should be different. This isn't sport, it is motorsport.

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Originally Posted by KKS

BTW by the Rules if Ott will use 3rd engine tomorrow +5min will apply in Chile? If yes so why they didn't fit new engine today, get +5min today and go for full points at Sunday.
If they still fit new engine for Sunday they scrap Sunday with +5min penalty already, but got 3 rally with new engine.
If they not - any of 3 next rally will be under threat of 'another engine failure'

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Ah you made me look. No, the penalty applies to the next rally - CER.

Only if a car fails to finish a Power stage they can have a third engine penalty free but the retired engine does not get used again, so they'd have to sacrifice this result to be penalty free in CER and use a new engine, as I think Tanak has finished every Power stage, and like he says, they have used two this season.

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Originally Posted by becher

Reliability is part of the game, normally people can deal with it but if it happens at the "right" moment everybody is up in arms like sport should be different. This isn't sport, it is motorsport.

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Agree fully. Almost. But what should be proved? And where do you set the limitation? Why not one engine, then? No, excusé moi, that wouldn´t work, would it? Three then? Well, maybe get the fans more for their money, or how to look at it?

Most of the homologation and reliability rules are adding nothing and just ruining rallies.

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Originally Posted by denkimi

Most of the homologation and reliability rules are adding nothing and just ruining rallies.

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Yeah. Smth like that, I mean.

Porter to Pajari: "You always ask me lots of questions".

Pajari: " "

:D Look who's talking.

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Originally Posted by Rallyper

Agree fully. Almost. But what should be proved? And where do you set the limitation? Why not one engine, then? No, excusé moi, that wouldn´t work, would it? Three then? Well, maybe get the fans more for their money, or how to look at it?

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If I remember correctly it was just one engine until this year and the only reason it changed was Tänaks issue at Estonia last year.

Of course there is the argument that cost saving measures like this don't change a thing as manufacturers spend the money they have, but if it wasn't for this regulation we still would have teams changing engines every other weekend.

So I'd say regulations like this actually are technically advantageous.