Manufacturers doesn´t want R5 as main class so it doesn´t matter what you want...
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Surely you haven't seen the WRC'17 car in person? There's no way I'd have traded the last three years for three years of R5s instead. What's to say there would have been more manufacturers anyway? Skoda were there with the R5 regardless, with works drivers. You'd have traded out around ten WRC supercars each season for what, 15 or so top line works R5 entries? While R5 are pretty good when being driven flat out by the best drivers, but as a spectacle they're nothing compared to the WRC'17 cars. There's even still a gap between the R5 and the older WRC cars.
As for the bit in bold, what makes you think we'd have had more/different drivers ABLE win if the top class was R5? Who has had more potential to win a WRC round than the drivers already winning in WRCars?
That's not to say that I'd be against a modified R5 class in future to replace the WRCars, at least with larger air restrictor and a small, standardised (box ticking) hybrid system for the purposes of marketing. If that were possible.
If the aim is to kill the R5 for the privateers than making it the top level class is a good idea... otherwise, figure.
I've seen them, but don't like the F1-like wings. Prefered the -16 rule that you could turn R5 to WRC and vise versa. Again for me it's not the tech but the competition.
And I don't like the fact that the new generation WRC-cars don't have to resemble any production car, but again that's just me.
I also know that i can't achieve anything with this post, but just want to give my opinion.
And I've seen Group B cars live back in -83, so I am not a newbie with the sports.
Rant over!
RRC and WRC, R5 is totally different.
Any chance you could make the aero from fiberglass or plastic or would it break too easy?
Ban wind tunnel testing? I guess the computer can calculate it good enough anyway now?
No. They were allowed to compete in one class, soon afer they were banned for their price and speed. RRC Mini (with a different name, S2000 1.6T) and DS3 also exist. In the end there were some bolt-on/off things to be changed, but the car was pretty much a WRC, different rear wing, front bumper, tarmac brakes and smaller restrictor.