Yes, perhaps a bit early for Paddon to be a specialist.
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Yes, perhaps a bit early for Paddon to be a specialist.
Yes it's not like his times or results are particularly worse on tarmac events, and indeed it's early to choose a speciality for him (other than southern hemisphere rallies on which the home advantage seems to help).
It's always going to be gravel for him. He's had to adjust his driving style a lot since the group N days that's for sure.Quote:
Originally Posted by kirungi okwogera
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FIA World Motorsport Council decisions
2015 Calendar
25 January MCO Rally Monte Carlo**
15 February SWE Rally Sweden
08 March MEX Rally Mexico*
26 April ARG Rally Argentina
24 May PRT Rally Portugal
14 June ITA Rally Italy*
05 July POL Rally Poland
02 August FIN Rally Finland
23 August DEU Rallye Germany
13 September AUS Rally Australia
04 October FRA Rally France**
25 October ESP Rally Spain
15 November GBR Rally Great Britain
Note: The finish date given is the Sunday of the rally weekend.
* Subject to ASNs confirmation.
** Subject to Organisation Agreement
- From 2015, the transmission of performance data or information to or from a competing car, not in relation with safety, is forbidden during special stages to help promote greater competition.
- In order to give greater opportunity to teams entering just one car in the WRC 2 and WRC 3 Championships for Teams, only the best placed car in a team will be taken into account for points.
- It is clarified that a car which has not started from the start line within 20 seconds will be considered as retired and will be able to restart under Rally 2 on the subsequent day.
- In order to give flexibility to non-priority drivers, it is proposed that these drivers may continue to use the previously homologated specifications of asphalt tyres for one additional year.
RALLYING
- From 1 January 2016, R5 cars will be recognised as the top competition car in the FIA European Rally Championship (ERC) and the S2000-Rally 1.6 turbo car will no longer be eligible in these events.
- In order to harmonise the number of results counting towards ERC titles, the maximum number of events counting towards the ERC 3 Championship has been increased to seven.
- In order to reduce costs for ERC Junior competitors, the tyre lottery will no longer exist from 2015, enabling competitors to re-use tyres from one rally to another.
- When allowed in the rally Supplementary Regulations, Priority drivers may now be allowed to participate in the shakedown on ERC events, after the results of the Qualifying Stage are official.
- A specific Priority status will be assigned to drivers registered in the FIA R-GT Cup, enabling them to be seeded amongst the P3 drivers during the WRC and ERC Cup events.
- In order to help increase the number of participants in the FIA African Rally Championship, cars homologated by Motorsport South Africa, as well as historical cars conforming to Appendix K, will be eligible in the Championship.
- Similarly, in the FIA Asia-Pacific and NACAM Rally Championships, additional eligible categories have been added and the APRC series may also permit ASN approved cars to compete and score points. Eligible categories are available from the Championship Secretariats.
http://irallylive.com/ir_news.htm?00007764
"and the S2000-Rally 1.6 turbo car will no longer be eligible in these events."
Clumsy wording there, so you can't run a S2000 or RRC?
It's not clumsy words. RRC is only M-Sport marketing name which has nothing to do with regulations. These cars are clearly homologated as S2000 1.6T.
Anyway the ban was surprisingly moved from 2015 to 2016.
simple:Quote:
Originally Posted by SubaruNorway
with S2000 2.0 N.A. you can
with S2000 1.6T you canīt
RRC is just marketing name, FIA canīt use it!
That was what i was wondering, if it was for both.Quote:
Originally Posted by pantealex
So for all WRC cars able to run "S2000 1.6T" there are two homologations?
Yes!Quote:
Originally Posted by dimviii
Meeke for one has already disagreed that no splits will increase competition..Quote:
Originally Posted by stefanvv
He maintains that if a driver was behind on the splits he will try to go faster.. and thats what we fans want isnt it ?
I think they will just put somebody near the track with very huge signs :-D Like paddock line
In Rallying You should go as fast as You can. With splits in the cars we often see comfort driving from the crew in advance, how this is more competitive? Many would agree that no splits are better for competition, probably except the drivers. I think this is becoming more "real" Rally.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
On the other hand "trying" to go faster as You are often leads to accidents, no?
I dont agree with this opinion of Kris...Quote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
Me neither. Although when the times are close, well see as we did before, with team members holding split boards mid-stage? Are there any rules against that?Quote:
Originally Posted by PLuto
Well, Volkswagen team principal Jost Capito told AUTOSPORT: "It's the same for everybody, so OK. But you cannot stop this.Quote:
Originally Posted by Doon
"It's impossible to police - what if somebody from our team shows a split time to [rival driver] Thierry Neuville? Is Neuville then out?
Taken from here http://www.autosport.com/news/report...medium=twitter
Wording of the rule does not limit transmission in any way, so all forms are forbidden be it data logger, text message or someone with a board in the stage.Quote:
Originally Posted by Doon
So if you dislike driver X, you can get him penalties (or exclusion) by showing a dummy split-times board on the stage. Handy, eh?
from WRC.COM article
It also means, for example, times cannot be sent by text message via a third party away from the rally, or by a team member displaying information on a board in the stage, as happened before electronic transmission became the norm.
http://www.wrc.com/en/wrc/news/decem...6--12-12-.html
That has to be proved first I guess. Otherwise is going to be a circus.Quote:
Originally Posted by jonkka
What about team member holdind board with words: "Go go go driver XXX" or "Slow down driver XXX" ??? :-D
Proving is not a problem, all (works) cars have on-board cameras that record every second of the stage. If you meant proving the existence of the pit board. Then again, how to prove it was genuine and not a ploy. Or instead of a pit board with a time on it, two guys with green shirts means "go faster" and one with red shirt means "go steady".Quote:
Originally Posted by stefanvv
Opinions of Jost Capito are always crazy, since he joined Volkswagen...Quote:
Originally Posted by EstWRC
Yes, this should be possible. But it will be much more difficult to realise it and not so easy to understand. Especially if there will be more drivers fighting for victory (I hope for it)...Quote:
Originally Posted by jonkka
But will we still be able to see the splits on WRC.com?
Proving the pit board itself is not a problem with onboard cameras as You say. The proof of geniality is another case. Anyway if drivers don't count such as info/provocation, they soon would disappear, no?Quote:
Originally Posted by jonkka
From the wrc.com article "Split times will remain available to teams and fans to view as normal."Quote:
Originally Posted by EightGear
The "normal" is a bit questionable as we know... :p
Some yes, but I don't see how this particular opinion is crazy?Quote:
Originally Posted by PLuto
I thought of the exactly same thing when I heard the news. Anyone can go and buy team (fan) clothing and after that go onto stage and show split board to crew from competing team. After that it is "word against word" – how would this be policed? I would like to believe that there are no actors in our sport who would even thinkin playing dirty like this but you never know.
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Thanks, I hadn't read the WRC.com article yet.Quote:
Originally Posted by makinen_fan
Yes, I agree. But for sure they must make the regulation and penalties clear, that somebody from another team/fan/journalist cannot make problems...Quote:
Originally Posted by Juha_Koo
I think that You are going too far. I bet nobody will bother with hunting people with some boards around the stage. That system is quite highly unreliable and if they want to make the afford, be it, it's no big deal. It doesn't work in the dark, in the dust, in the rain, in the fog. It requires good information for the man with the board which is possible only in some places of the stages, it requires a lot of people. In the end it doesn't change that much in my opinion. Some teams used it in IRC where splits were forbidden and it didn't prevent cases when some driver was able to make tens of seconds in one stage by a sudden crazy attack (in most extreme case it was over a minute in one stage).Quote:
Originally Posted by jonkka
Can anyone explain what exactly is meant by this. I cant really see the point of this.
- It is clarified that a car which has not started from the start line within 20 seconds will be considered as retired and will be able to restart under Rally 2 on the subsequent day.
Does this mean if the car stalls on the start line and fail to start within 20s the crew will retire? Also someone this year failed to start on the correct minute waiting for next one (Sordo ??) and then realised it, does it mean they would have been retired?
It says start line so i understand it means if the engine stalls.
It used to be 30 seconds. I remember once when a driver had a mechanical problem they went out quickly and pushed the car away from the start-line, to retire soon after...Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
thanks Tom and Mirek. I never realised such a rule existedQuote:
Originally Posted by tommeke_B
Capito really has lost his marbles. Why would someone from his team tell a Hyundai driver what his split times are?
Sometimes I'm still wondering... Are the journalists so stupid that they don't understand Capito's sarcasm and jokes? Or is he really that much of an idiot?Quote:
Originally Posted by Jack4688`
I didn't think of that! It's hard to convey sarcasm in text... but I'll go on the assumption that he's ready to be put in a homeQuote:
Originally Posted by tommeke_B
Of course it is sarcasm.... probably apart from Rally Deutchland....Quote:
Originally Posted by tommeke_B