[WRC] News & rumours (part II)

WRC is for 6 years in bad shape.

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Originally Posted by AndyRAC

In a word, NO!! It was the FiA's remedy for falling entries when Mitsubishi, Skoda & Peugeot all pulled out at the end of 2005. So instead of doing something positive, like discussing new regs, they decided SupeRally would be the answer. Hmmm, marvellous......

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Franky is right, initially car in superally did not get points.It was just for testing and publicity. Penalties and possibilities to get points were added later. It was and is reasonable.We can still see the car, driver can test but no fooling with penalties.

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Originally Posted by bluuford

Franky is right, initially car in superally did not get points.It was just for testing and publicity. Penalties and possibilities to get points were added later. It was and is reasonable.We can still see the car, driver can test but no fooling with penalties.

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:up: This is the way it should be. Without Superally, if you travel long distances to watch a rally and you hardly get to see your favourite driver 'cos they crashed early on the first leg, its a big kick in the nuts!

I can see why it was brought in, with less manufacturers means less cars, and less still if they crash. On the other hand, a crash should really be punished(with no points) IMO. Imagine if in F1 you were given a grid penalty for qualifying 1st etc...
Diddn't Petter retire because he lost a lot of time through having punctures on one event this year? It was better for him to retire than making it to the end of the stage. Thats just plain daft! :mad:

In a local newspaper interview, Chairman of Rally Japan vowed to get the event back on the WRC calendar for 2013. He also confirmed what I heard at last year's RJ, that any future event would be based in the much more popular City of Obihiro.

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Originally Posted by Rally Hokkaido

In a local newspaper interview, Chairman of Rally Japan vowed to get the event back on the WRC calendar for 2013. He also confirmed what I heard at last year's RJ, that any future event would be based in the much more popular City of Obihiro.

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Yipee, back to Obihiro !! Last year in Sapporo was not so good as the ones in Obihiro....

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Originally Posted by tfp

:up: This is the way it should be. Without Superally, if you travel long distances to watch a rally and you hardly get to see your favourite driver 'cos they crashed early on the first leg, its a big kick in the nuts!

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I think that this is the way how it works in European Championship (and also in our national one). Crew can restart but is out of general classification. The only difference is that there are bonus points for legs and those are still available for them.

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Originally Posted by AndyRAC

In a word, NO!! It was the FiA's remedy for falling entries when Mitsubishi, Skoda & Peugeot all pulled out at the end of 2005. So instead of doing something positive, like discussing new regs, they decided SupeRally would be the answer. Hmmm, marvellous......

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Super Rally came out in 2005, we were the first to ever use it at Rally NZ. We actually had to teach the Ford team how to Super Rally as we were the experts after DNF's on day 1 and 2. Oh and we did DNF on day 3 as well so we were the 1st WRC crew to ever dnf 3 times in the one rally :(

Ray

Ray, head up. It's nice story for Your children, isn't it? :D


By the way all ROC 2012 cars:

http://www.autosport.cz/img/clanky/b...a4b0cbe3f9.jpg

What about WRC cars in Roc?!

VW doesn't have a WRC yet.