[WRC] News & rumours (part II)

Mads onboard from the crash: V?e o Rally CZ, AutoCrossu, RallyCrossu, Kartingu ? MediaSport.cz

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Originally Posted by Josti

Wow, an era isn't just defined by what cars are driving. The championship really ment something in those days, it was as high profile as F1, and every single event stood out from the other.

If you ask the drivers, those cars were actually incredible to drive, not horrible. Lancia 037, damnit that's so much better than a DS3 WRC.

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Yeah today all rallies have the same name formula, the same name Rally +name of the country, 4-5 stages
before lunch and 4-5 stages after lunch (pre-luch stages repeated). Almost no evening/night stages.
Also most rallies seems to be held at the same time every year. It would be really great if let say Sweden and Finland
could Swap places in calendar every second year. Making Finland the winter rally those years.
Or why not having Rally GB early in the season instead of always having it towards the end?

Perhaps the GrpB cars were too extreme but the current WRC are in that case to standardized, they basically look and sound
too much like a regular road car with some nice paint. Too small, to nimble and to agile like go-karts with a body. Quite boring imo.
I wouldn't mind seeing a return to 2.0L engines or even 2.5L engines (with turbo).
Cars should be 2 or 4 door saloon cars (impreza, Lancer, Integrale...) or 2 door coupes (like Quattro, Celica).
Engines that should be slightly more powerful then today's lawn mover engines.

Also it would be possible to combine the look and sound of those cars with the modern technology.

In my personal opinion too much of today's work and focus is on how to make the cars cheaper rather then focusing on
how to make WRC rallying more exciting and spectacular.

WRC today is like F1 would skip the F1 cars and start using Formula Ford cars.

Ogier would like to see Sordo in the VW team :
La Polo hors WRC en 2012 et avec Sordo en 2013 ?

it would be the logical choice if they are serious...

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Originally Posted by dimviii

same i understant reading a Ogiers speech at a magazine.They are not near Citroens speed yet.

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confirmed...
La Polo enchaine les tests

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Sandell will be doing the Chinese Rally Championship this year according to his homepage. I am not sure what that will mean for his participation in the WRC.

Martin Semerad's codriver killed in accident:

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More sad news unfortunately.
Condolences to Bohuslav Ceplecha's family and friends, and Martin of course.

@ N.O.T. You do remember that Peugeot won the championship in their first whole season, don't you? So why not VW ??

And claiming that back in the 80's every tourist could win a rally??? In the era of group-B cars ?? Cars that had to be driven in order to win, cars that modern drivers can't even drive. So tourists.... seriously?