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16th September 2018, 18:32 #1
Return of Rough Rallies - Are the Cars Ready?
The return of Turkey to the calendar marks the return of rough endurance-style rallies like Cyprus and Acropolis in the old days. In 2020, we're likely going to get the Safari back. We've seen in this edition of Turkey that many cars just break down, even without having really hit anything. They just seem to fall apart.
Have the modern WRC cars become too fragile from years of running a championship without rough rallies? Will manufacturers have to update their cars to survive in future seasons, when we might have two or maybe even three of these rougher rallies?Last edited by MentalParadox; 16th September 2018 at 18:35.
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16th September 2018, 18:51 #2
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Have they not talked about decreasing lenght of stages or even decreasing lenght of rally itself? Here they break most on the marathon ones, right.
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16th September 2018, 20:11 #3
Not sure I like the sound of that. But I suppose it's better than their plans for the Safari. I heard they want to replace all the awesome savanna 'roads' with clean, manicured roads on private property. Rough gravel sections, gone. Natural watersplashes, gone. That's not the Safari I wanted. I guess I prefer shorter rallies if it means preserving the spirit of the rallies.
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16th September 2018, 20:16 #4
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Stupid is as stupid does. Forrest Gump
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17th September 2018, 00:52 #5
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I would imagine the vast majority of non WRC car entries on a reborn Safari rally would come from local guys who are used to those conditions in the Kenyan championship. Given that WRC2 doesn't require competitors to do anywhere near every round, and I doubt the Safari will be in the JWRC, nobody will be forced to take part if they don't want to.
As MentalParadox says though, if the candidate event is representative of the final event, I don't think the roads will be as rough as we saw in Turkey. The problem will be the much higher speeds involved.
Having two rougher rallies kind of works nicely with the twinning of events for chassis. Might make a more 'endurance' spec car make sense.
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17th September 2018, 01:23 #6
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17th September 2018, 04:24 #7
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How many SUVs have an FIA homologation? Could T2 production suvs be allowed to enter wrc 'rough' events?
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17th September 2018, 08:34 #8
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This is WRC! It's good to see an event like Turkey. I remember my childhood with Safari, Cyprus, Greece...
Who won Turkey'18? The most fragile cars! Like Latvala said you have to be clever and patient in a rally like this one. And Tänak said "I knew that it won't be the fastest driver who win this rally".
Ogier, Neuville, to maximum attack.
Pontus Tidemand, also.
Check Henning's race, with an R5. Or Begkvist's one. No trouble. A clean race. No maximum push.
The question is :"Are drivers ready?" not "Are the cars ready?"
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Tänak got 20 points closer to Evans, but as the main reason was a bad rally for Evans, I would say that Evans lost 20 points to Tänak, not Tänak gained. The point is, if the other one does not...
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