Did that money EVER exist?Quote:
Originally Posted by saco0o
Seems every promoter - including now the FIA - has lost so much money on this crap with no path to profit they've decided to walk away....
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Did that money EVER exist?Quote:
Originally Posted by saco0o
Seems every promoter - including now the FIA - has lost so much money on this crap with no path to profit they've decided to walk away....
The WRC2027 Car will be at Rally2 power and these Cars are to be the top class in WRX too. Presumably they were checking the speed of a current Rally2 against the current RX1 Cars.Quote:
Originally Posted by WRCStan
Rally4 Cars are maybe for a lower class in RX.
I have to agree. The main (basically only) RX Team are all EV this year and now they have to go back to ICE !Quote:
Originally Posted by Kenneth
Why on earth have they done this and not just waited until the new Car regs ? The extra cost and waste of previous spending makes no sense.
haha thats the point. when they were trying to make it a global championship there were investors believing it was possible: big sponsors, f1 track promoters, manufacturers. i love this sport but lets be honest, there was no RoI. it is just a niche thing after all. it took them 2 or 3 years to realize that (probably contracts with fines tbf) but eventually they all jumped out of that sinking boat. then came the pandemic.Quote:
Originally Posted by rallyfiend
but the most unexplainable thing for me was HOW ON HELL did redbull decided to take over a sport that brought NO RoI to anyone, put it behind a pay wall (???)... and then how the FIA believed having electric cars would be a good idea on a sport that brought NO RoI to anyone? on a sport that was build on "lets give these rich brits & scandinavian blokes a place for them to race their crappy cars". (no offense, thats literally one of my favorite sports hehe) this is beyond my imagination. i can only guess some kind of money laundering... ??
but anyway. going back to be an european championship is the right move. 100% (hope they grow up the rumored 6 events! even autocross is having 10 races/season). sure, have a "world cup' race or two overseas for the top guys who have more money, sure. but thats it. it is not a global championship. im honestly more excited than ever with this. hope they keep the broadcast haha
fia is trying to make rally2 (and wrc27) and rally4 even more interesting by having them also competing in national and regional rallycross. top eurorx cars would probably be rally2s and wrc27 cars but with the more powerfull rx engines (normally built by pipo, mountaine (idk how to write it), omse, oreca)Quote:
Originally Posted by WRCStan
Which tbh isn't much different to now, many teams uses R5 based cars. Hansens built 208 T16 and DS3 R5 based RX cars, Gronholm and Andersson drives i20 R5 based cars, Kristofferson used to run Polo R WRC based car and now uses Polo R5 based car. Even Citroen wanted to enter the C3 R5 with electric engine.
Switching Rallycross to using the new spaceframe WRC27 Cars is maybe a way of ensuring more sales of these cars from any Manufacturer or tuner that invests in making them.
Do you think that Hansen would be return with Lancia??Quote:
Originally Posted by Kenneth
And IIRC, the DS3 & i20 are based from the WRCar
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timmy hansen said recently next week they have some announcements. i guess one is probably about extreme e (they are having one last round with all teams and then theres the debut event for the hydrogen cars - both races in saudi... OF COURSE). but theres also something about rx in the making. no idea what it could be. i doubt its lancia tho.
volvo construction to leave the championship - including the whole track building thing and equipament