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7th January 2021, 03:46 #2211
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Rallying never really needed manufacturers, they are only needed because of the stupid homologation fia-cashcow rules.
Everyone should be able to build and drive a car as long as its build according to the rules, just like in wrx or f1 or dakar or lemans or..
The forced need for manufacturers aproval has been holding the sport back for many years now. Without that rule, we could have seen many private firms operating their own cars, just like ik most other motorsports.
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7th January 2021, 09:39 #2212
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7th January 2021, 10:57 #2213
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The difference between rallying and most other motorsports is that rally cars must be street legal. I'm sure that has something to do with keeping the manufacturers in the homologation process. Not sure though how they apply that to the scaled down tubular chassis of the 2022 cars...
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7th January 2021, 11:09 #2214
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Stupid is as stupid does. Forrest Gump
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7th January 2021, 11:27 #2215
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7th January 2021, 11:32 #2216
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I meant that because of manufacturers homologating every rally car, they can be street legal. The current Toyota Yaris WRC is basically just a tuning kit added to a street Yaris. But if you had a Prodrive GT Turbo Rally1 or something, there wouldn't be a corresponding street model. But I don't know that much about these things.
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7th January 2021, 13:26 #2217
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For what it's worth, I wouldn't care at all if we lost the road sections.
I wonder what would cost more, making rally cars road legal or putting them on a trailer between stages?
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7th January 2021, 14:03 #2218
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Have you ever been to a rally? Where do you want to put those trailers? In at least half of the stages around the world there is nowhere to place some trailers dozens of kilometers around the stages and moreover some trucks with trailers may not even pass the road sections!
Stupid is as stupid does. Forrest Gump
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7th January 2021, 14:07 #2219
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Easier then to let rallycars travel on their own between stages. But why should authorities bather. Rallycars has steering, brakes and safety zones for driver and passenger. They fit any traffic situation without having any question of being street legal. Authorities could easily let them drive without legalization.
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7th January 2021, 16:29 #2220
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No road sections and non-road legal wacky racer prototypes not based on road cars... Are we still calling it rallying?
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