Is there national event running beside the WRC again? Is there eny entry list for that?Quote:
Originally Posted by Eugenio Perea
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Is there national event running beside the WRC again? Is there eny entry list for that?Quote:
Originally Posted by Eugenio Perea
One of the things that have always been a challenge for us is our spot on the calendar. Being so early in the season means we are usually the first to face new rule changes. It happened with Flexi-service, with SuperRally, with WRC Cup and a host of other evolutions to the Championship. It's happening again with the new cars. Allow me to copy/paste some information Martin Holmes sent me today:
It is inevitable that such drastic changes (22 categories!) cause genuine uncertainty in privateers. We'll probably see an upsurge of competitors in World Rallies within three months. WRC Academy, for instance, is filling up very quickly, and that will fill up the ranks and provide a great show.Quote:
"Welcome to a new year that brings a welter of changes to the sport and most of all to the world rally championship. The most significant and biggest change in the WRC is the new formula for cars! The successful 14 year old rules for 2-litre turbocharged car, the flagship of the sport, have gone and world rally cars must now be physically smaller and powered by 1.6-litre turbo engines, fitted with direct injection systems. The new generation World Rally Cars must be used by the top level teams and the lower level privateer teams as well. Older generation World Rally Cars, along with other cars running in the A8 class, will no longer be eligible to run in any FIA championship events and are being moved to whichever countries will permit them in their national championship events. Meanwhile Super 2000 cars fitted with atmospheric 2-litre engines which have been already homologated can continue to run in the world and other regional championship events, but all new Super 2000s must be fitted with 1.6-litre turbo direct injection engines, like the World Rally Cars. The engines in the new Super 2000 cars, except for very minor technical differences to the flywheel are now the same as used in World Rally Cars. The WRC cars use a 33mm turbo restrictor. On world rallies S2000 versions can do the same but must use a smaller restrictor on regional and other events.
The second major change is the realignment of classes within FIA championship rallies, all part of the continued transition from the old Group A and Group N categories into the new Group R. No fewer than 22 different categories of cars are now eligible to take part on world rallies, divided into 11 separate classes in championship rallies and ten (all except World Rally Cars) in regional rallies. These 22 categories have been matched so that comparable cars compete against each other, even if some are Group A or Group N cars and some are Group R cars. There are two new categories. One is the R4 category, for cars that used to be Class N4 cars (Mitsubishis and Subarus) but now in uprated form, aimed at making them more competitive against Super 2000 cars. The other is the RGT class, is for GT cars, the rules for which are still in the process of being defined."
Where Josti is absolutely correct is regarding privateers in Canada, USA, Mexico and Central America. We need to ramp up our efforts to promote the local-rules version of the rally, the Rally America. Rally Team for Dreams would have rounded up all their funding if we had done promoted the rally early enough. That's something we're going to focus on for 2012.
I should learn to post faster. Francis44 and bluuford are spot on.
Some words from Novikov: http://www.almrally.ru/english/info/4607/
Great job, guys! It's gonna be thrilling and soooo exciting for all of us! :) Can't wait!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Eugenio Perea
He, he. I listened yesterday to Total Rally broadcast from last week where Gerard Quinn was interviewed. When the talk got to young drivers and Novikov was mentioned to drive a Ford Fiesta WRC, Gerard Quinn’s answer was “That’s new to me”. :D
Eugenio, so, no rally america concept this year?
nice, thanks Eugenio!
When will the entry list for rally america be realeased?
Wasnt aware the entry for mexican drivers was so cheap! 10,000 pesos (about 850 USD) for entry, recce, 7 nights in a hotel, and space at service park is extremely good value! If the prices stay like that I might do it next year!
And for foreigners the price is very good as well 2,500 USD, including transport from the border is great value as well.
By the way eugenio could you send me more details about specs for entries in rally america? safety, tyres, etc...
The entry list will be released on Friday, but some names I've heard are Simon Wright, Andrew Frick, Bryan Gottlieb, Robb Rill and the inimitable William Caswell. (Did I misspell any of those?)
The categories are generally the same allowed in the Mexican and U.S. rally championships.
It's a very good value, and with some work I'm sure we can get the event to a very respectable level. I mean, all the infrastructure of a world-class event is there, we could do worse than to use it and turn this into our yearly North American Rally Meetup. I'll bring the sun and the beer!