Latvala said in Finnish radio that Toyota won’t be having a lower class car out in 2022, earliest at late 2023
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Latvala said in Finnish radio that Toyota won’t be having a lower class car out in 2022, earliest at late 2023
Wow! He was even 7th overall on stage 6, faster than Asunmaa, Salo and Pepe Lopez!
https://www.ewrc-results.com/results...2021/?s=336629
https://www.ewrc-results.com/image/6...?entry=3136776
It was a night stage. Have a look:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRgLoxgjExE
Ok, so we know Toyota, due to hybrid Rally1 postpone their Rally3 project at least one year to late 2023.
They have a large team both in Finland and Germany, so to put aside a Customer Team should be possible.
Any french members or others that have heard anything on the Renault Rally3 project. They do it in the opposite direction working their way up the pyramid.
If that project also is pushed to 2023/24 Ford will have the market for one or two seasons all to themselves. MSport Poland will be very happy if that is the case.
At least up here in the gravel and snow countries many are thinking about buying a Rally3 car, to go up from rally4 or coming from an old grN or grA car in national classes. They are becoming more and more expensive to maintain, and gets beaten by modern Rally3 cars, that in total becomes cheaper to run over a seson.
What about Hyundai? Now that their new Rally2 car is out perhaps that team have the time to take on a Rally3 project?
What classes has different nations put rally3 into nationally?
In its own class, or into existing class?
Rally3 will be the designated class of SM3 in Finland next year. This year it has been just Rally4/R2 cars
Lukasz Byskiniewicz was 10th overall and 1st in class 3 in the final results of Rally Swidnicki last week. There is still one rally to go in the Polish championship, but Byskiniewicz already won the championship of class 3. Congratulations!
Classification of class 3 (with one rally still to go):
http://www.pzm.com.pl/rajdy/2021/narastajacoRsmp/3.pdf
Final results of Rally Swidnicki:
https://www.ewrc-results.com/final/6...i-krause-2021/
Photo of the winning car:
https://www.ewrc-results.com/image/6...=3137044&car=0
Photo of the winning crew:
https://cdn-1.motorsport.com/images/...ukasz-by-3.jpg