And its ok for a Formula One racing car to be called an F1 car.
The problem is the rally car denotation R1-R5 were already used before (albeit in reverse).
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From 2022 (if not before) we will call the new WRCar R1 the Rally2 cars R2 and so on. At least in here.
Kresta at that point (2005) had lot of experience with multiple WRC cars (Octavia, Fabia, 206, Accent and 03 Subaru) among these he certainly impressed with posting some of the fastest times ever done by the Accent WRC in his very first (and only) start with it. He has a reputation of being very good with setting up cars.
As mentioned none of these 3 at MSport now ever drove anything else than Fiesta as WRC or R5 .
Suninen confirmed that he will test Rally1 2022.
Wilson must have been 1st in Greystoke and then Camilli & Tänak in Spain at the end of August 2016. After that in Spain (Camilli), in Finland (Tänak), in Italy (Evans), in France ( Østberg, Tänak & Camilli). Tänak & Ogier were testing in Sweden in December 2016. I think that Prokop was not testing...