Lancia to replace Citroen pretty much confirmed as the works -supported team:
https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/lanci...LfqtSo44kRg2hQ
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Lancia to replace Citroen pretty much confirmed as the works -supported team:
https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/lanci...LfqtSo44kRg2hQ
Lancia topic is more 2026 WRC2 News and Rumours now.
Let’s see if someone can drag a bit of sponsorship money out of Martini to do the job right!Quote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
From beginning it is mainly about Rally2 car. But still there is question how 2027 will looks like in general...Quote:
Originally Posted by WRCStan
So after they finally settled on a spaceframe chassis to replace Rally1/2/WRX Cars, a candidate for the FIA Presidency wants future rally cars to based on road cars...
https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/fia-p...VHa_1hr11ewDIw
He's talking about national rallying not WRC. Not worth a comparison or conflation.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
True and semingly for national rallies outside Europe.Quote:
Originally Posted by WRCStan
Although even here (UK) many people at this level are still using old Subaru's and Evos. But apart from the recent GR Yaris no-one has a 4WD car homologated, so he has a point.
I'm not understanding what point he has, or the article, and regs of national rallying is not an FIA matter. Sounds like he's wanting to be saying the right things.
He wants to return to production-based cars at national level, even though they already are, but he needs to look at what he can do about power trains and construction of the cars. So which is it: hands on or hands off?
CODASUR and Africa already accommodate local cars outside of R1, R2, R5, if he wants to make a global regs set he'd probably face opposition in Europe.
Was his point that he wants manufacturers to build more cars like they used to and go through his homologation process? Good luck buddy!
And I'll add, on topic, that there's no real evidence that a series-production based shell chassis fitted with roll cage will be any cheaper than a tube chassis with cell once scaled to the potential market that's available.
IMO it's all noise and no signal.
Have the final rules been sent to possible manufacturers yet?
If so have anyone signed up yet?
27 is not that far away....
https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/hyund...2-car-in-2027/
“Unfortunately, 2027 is a train that has left the station already,” said Abiteboul. “Coming in 2027 with a new car, according to the new regulation, no, that’s not going to happen. What can still happen is that we, like many other manufacturers, will have a Rally2 car.”
Does anyone know if M-sport is building a WRC27 car? If not, we could have a one team show. Nothing different from the current situation though...