No. This car will be homologated in Russia (for national championship & national cup). But may be VW will homologate it ;) We will see.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
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No. This car will be homologated in Russia (for national championship & national cup). But may be VW will homologate it ;) We will see.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
I was told there is Polo R2 in development in Germany. That's why I'm asking. I must admit I don't know anything more than rumors.
Great work! But what's missing is the minimum weight of cars in each of the classes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
R5: 1200 kg
RGT: 1200 to 1400; affects air restrictor's size
R4: 1350 (??)
R3
- T: 1080
- D: 1150
- C: 1080
R2
- C: 1080
- B: 1030
R1
- B: 1030
- A: 980
... compared to 1200 kg for S2000, and S2000-based (WRC and RRC) cars.
I don't want to browse FIA website now but I think that R4 is minimum 1310 kg and R3T is minimum 1120 kg.
I've double checked and it's 1300 kg for R4 (1350 was for N4) and 1080 for R3T.
Also, not sure if that has been brought up already, but from 2013 the minimum weight of the car with crew (driver + co-driver + the full equipment of the driver and co-driver) will be the minimum weight w/o crew + 160 kg (compared to + 150 at the moment).
Read some news on a rally site that FIA are changing the naming convention on the classes and championships in WRC for 2013.
I guess this might be something the Rally Commission will inform on, but have not seen any official statement from FIA, have anyone else?
This is a google translation from what I read on Ericsson Motorsport http://www.emotorsport.se
http://translate.google.com/?vi=c&hl=en
Yeah, I was asking about this the other day. I don't think the FIA will say anything until the promoter issue is sorted out.
Had some issues on my iPad on moving translated stuff over, so had to move to the iMac.
Here is the full text:
Three factory cars and new classes, the FIA's rescue of the WRC series?
http://translate.googleusercontent.com/bilder/0.gif After several years with the now familiar classes PWRC and SWRC aiming FIA to replace them and start new classes, all because of the declining interest in several of the series - but also for the entire World Cup series, sat at the last meeting and discussed several news - if and when a change can come is uncertain - with some of the changes are expected as early as next year tells FIA.
New classes were just one of the points, dropping the now pre-nominated places for factory cars, allowing three cars to go under the team's flag and where the two top finishers at the finish counting points was one of the ideas. The idea a few years ago, was on the contrary that smaller cars for the teams would provide reduced costs - if the proposal goes through three cars become more the rule than the exception and suddenly rising costs again - which would not benefit either Ford or Citroen with ailing economy.
This proposal is something especially newcomer VW worked for, they have been talking about three cars with a well established, a driver right there under and a young driver under development. Add to that the local importer and reseller arte frame which is expected to launch towards the middle of next year.
New classes - WRC2, 3 & 4.
The currently named PWRC and SWRC series, Championship for production cars, Group N and Super2000 cars are expected to go to a new common class called WRC2. There, the two classes of counting points for each class, but go in the common table and only one champion crowned.
A series of two-wheel drive cars is expected, where the R1 to R3 cars under the name WRC3.Today's WRC Academy is expected in the future is called WRC4 and run just like today as a talent program execution and joint activities - while not run the entire race track.
The class that gets no place in WRC is as yet GT cars, the R-GT - likely will not this class put a heavy load for the series, when only local drivers are expected to attend sporadically and is seen more as an odd element than a World Series.
PS
Brother John: I must disagree with you in moving this here. The R Classes news i more of a tech thread, but this one is intended to discuss FIAs suggestions to beat the old WRC horse into life again! ;-)
@Sulland: I've also heard about that. ;)
If WRC2, WRC3 and WRC4 are genuine, then I think this will go a long way to fixing some of the problems in the series.
Someone the other day raised the point that the reduced coverage means it is difficult to form an emotional attachment to one driver. I understand this entirely - in Formula 1, I follow Jenson Button because he made his debut when I really started to watch the series full-time. He was a driver whose progress I could follow across his entire career trajectory.
Right now, the WRC, Super 2000 championship, Group N and WRC Academy are only loosely connected. There is no clear path from the lower tiers to the upper echelons, so it's very difficult to work out how people got to where they are. For example, take Daniel Oliveria - who is he? What has he done to justify a place in the WRC? I can't form any attachment to him because I have no idea who he is. But on the other hand, I can see that Elfyn Evans is experiecing success in the Academy, which makes it easier to form an attachment to him. And if there is a linear progressing from the Academy to the WRC, I can follow Evans' career more easily. From the sounds of things, the WRC2/3/4 proposal will do just this - success in WRC4 paves the way to WRC3.
As for three-car teams, I don't see it happening, though I think it would be great because it means more action. If the manufacturers are worried about costs, then perhaps they should invest in making cars for WRC2 and WRC3, and use the income to offset the cost of a third works car, though they would probably have to sell quite a few to make it viable.