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Thread: [WRC] News & Rumours 2019
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22nd February 2019, 14:05 #1441
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22nd February 2019, 14:13 #1442
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Money counts...
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Tommi Mäkinen, back in the years...
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22nd February 2019, 14:25 #1443
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22nd February 2019, 14:39 #1444
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Exactly, and this generation of WRC car is worse because they are so expensive to run. With all the aero pieces etc, you could easily smash your budget to pieces without actually crashing the car, just knocking bits off....so if the budget is limited, or the result is already lost after the first day, then I would imagine the natural inclination will be to not push to the maximum...and by not pushing what have you proved?
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22nd February 2019, 20:51 #1445
Even R5 is expensive if you have to pay for a drive. Paddon was asked why he isn't just doing WRC2 this year and replied about needing something like a million dollars to pay for it.
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23rd February 2019, 13:59 #1446
A short interview with Walter Rörhl https://www.goodwood.com/grrc/column...mans-and-cars/
...Funny how ev'rything was roses when we held on to the guns...
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23rd February 2019, 14:30 #1447
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Well not sure his idea about difs is good.
On the other hand as we discussed before I am for limiting the number of possible settings, which in turn would limit the need/usefulness of testing and reduce costs.
It was mentioned recently that VW had 20 different dampers for Polo and Hyundai now has 50 to pick from. Both numbers sound crazy to me.Last edited by mknight; 23rd February 2019 at 14:56.
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23rd February 2019, 17:21 #1448
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So many years and failed attempts have passed and yet still someone believes that it's possible to reduce the championship cost by technical regulations.
I tell you one thing. The championship cost is a mirror of its own value. The better the championship is the more the teams can spend and the worse it is the less they spend. It's that simple and the technical regulations have very little to do with it.Stupid is as stupid does. Forrest Gump
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23rd February 2019, 18:21 #1449
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24th February 2019, 16:40 #1450
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That's the problem with R5... cheap enough for the businessman or his kid but not cheap enough for the young prospect.
Most national rally entries now have a couple of fast driver's and a load of guys just having fun as a hobby.
R4 anyone ?
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