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At least they didn't have any factual errors, and the car could be competitive in ERC2 :)

I know, but there is nothing for them in WRC events.

It's a bit of chicken and egg situation. Why create a cup when there's no drivers? Or why buy/build a car when there's no cup/championship to participate in?

https://www.ewrc-results.com/cars/147-audi-a1-r4/?s=2021&sct=&w=#stats

Yes. it's a Rally2 Kit (previously known as R4 Kit).

The fact that there's already several Audi A1's built with the Oreca...

Well, we don't know the pace of Rally3 car yet, but hopefully we'll get some idea tomorrow :)

But just clarifying it's not like they did it now. This class became before the new Rally1,2,3 classes and it almost seems they forgot the existence of it when drawing the new rally pyramid.

This class was already introduced a few years ago. Originally it was called R4 Kit. It's just been very unpopular so most of us have never seen these cars in action.

This class is problematic...

Uh oh. I'm in a Finnish facebook rally group, where someone (who has been close to the Toyota team) posted this news with the comment "Audi is coming this spring with an R5 car". It has now 112 likes...

Like I said in the Rally3 thread, the performance should be close to a Group N Mitsu.

They cannot participate in WRC this year?