This looks likes it's going the same way WR2C is atm, and I'm not against that if that's something similar.
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This looks likes it's going the same way WR2C is atm, and I'm not against that if that's something similar.
the ex ford europe guy said the new regs are not interesting
https://x.com/WRCgerardquinn/status/1932514123532664950
but again, the reactions are always "yes, wrc is moving away from road cars, thats not what rally should be all about". i dont have twitter, for those who have: go and ask these fellas "which modern relevant road car you want in wrc right now?" - cuz i bet its going to be the same answers i got on facebook: "nah, current road cars are ugly suvs with hybrid engines, i hate those"
so... what do they want? what do 'WE' want? even among the most hardcore fans there isnt a vision. each one of us want something related to our memory or to our visual likes
edit: my best interaction on fb about this so far was someone saying wrc need to use road cars, then I asked 'which car? a suv?' then he said 'yes but down-scaled like the puma', then I said "but you can only re-escale a car if it is a tubeframe', then he told me to 'grow up and stop arguing on the internet'
racing fans are getting hard to understand hehe (myself included, for sure lol)
https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/why-w...or-privateers/
Toyota technical director Tom Fowler
“Look at this really simplistically. Right now, I don’t have a ’27 car. But a Škoda Rally2 car exists and has been driving for more than a decade in different forms. So, when we get to the Safari Rally in 2027, I wouldn’t bet that a car which doesn’t exist today has a better chance of getting to the end faster compared with one which has already done this event and existed for more than a decade – and has the same technical and performance specification"
weird thing for a toyota guy to say but ok lol
good to know some insider guy saying 'wrc27 and r5s will be on the same level', cuz i still had my doubts. thats good. it keeps those thousand of cars still competing for a little longer! (before more and more teams and racers buy/build the wrc27 car)