Don't think so, cars are pretty fast and safe. New car homologations will be allowed in 2020, but regulations are expected to be stable for some more years.
F1 is another (sometimes crazy) world
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Don't think so, cars are pretty fast and safe. New car homologations will be allowed in 2020, but regulations are expected to be stable for some more years.
F1 is another (sometimes crazy) world
Since the first videos of ‘17 WRC cars testing we got to know they were incredibly fast and last season has proved they were the right choice for the series; their ‘wow factor’ is helping WRC to recover the interest of old fans and attract new ones.
Safety concerns will always exist and current cars aren’t necessarily more dangerous than the previous ones, having in mind their safety devices improved design. Besides, at any time the FIA can easily make them a bit slower, taking off some power and torque via a smaller engine restrictor.
Anyway, it seems premature to be asking for major tech changes as we’re just on the second year of an initial 3 years cycle; it’d be great for the series to keep current regs till 2022, the end of the second cycle. Regs stability is vital to attract more manus and these cars simply rocks!
This is nearly same accident from 2009 with a gr.N car with roughly 120 Hp less than the WRC (equipped with Prodrive T45 rollcage). Was it less dangerous? I don't think so.
https://www.ewrc.cz/images/2009/suma...f-crash-11.jpg
More photos: https://www.ewrc.cz/clanek/10970/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCst6qw_Nq0
A serious Subaru crash from Finland last Autumn. Drivers were hospitalized, but returned to competition a few weeks later.
Who are the firms delivering dampers and springs to which WRCars and R5s these days?
"When you have no hydraulics you have no center diff." -JML 2018
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See how wheels impact on the aerodynamics of WRC cars and the solutions teams implement to minimize such impact, in our new post
https://wrcwings.wordpress.com/2018/...-of-a-wrc-car/
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https://wrcwings.wordpress.com/2018/...-rear-diffuser