[WRC] News & Rumours 2019

[mknight]

Can't FIA leave the WRC as it is, and make some new championship nobody cares about, like Formula E?

If they leave things as they are manus leave. See WRX.

On the subject of noise, Evo 7-9 make close to no sound as well.

[Gregor-y]

More noise about Canada:Rally Canada urged to be ready for a WRC round within five years

Matton told Autosport last month that he favoured two winter rallies on the WRC calendar and a Canadian event is seen as part of that solution.

A mild Rally Sweden put the issue of finding a cold, snow-sure event back on the sport's agenda and an Ottawa-based February rally could be that event.

I can't really believe Sweden would be off the calendar as happy as I am that Ottawa is only a day's drive for me. Maybe the WRC should cut Monte Carlo and do the Arctic Lapland Rally if they really want snow.

[N.O.T]

If they leave things as they are manus leave. See WRX.

on a scale from 1 to 10 how hard is every day life for someone with your condition ?

[Googol]

The problem is that the choice is not just to electric or not to electric. If they decide to go to electric, the choices vary between let's plug in a same cheap standard component for everyone to look modern, and let's give everyone freedom to spend ridiculous amounts of money for new solutions to really be modern. The range is very big and every manufacturer wants different. So the result will be a lousy compromise for which no one is happy and everyone will threaten to leave anyway.

[sindroms]

Can't FIA leave the WRC as it is, and make some new championship nobody cares about, like Formula E?

I have got feeling that I will end my rally fans days by watching hisoric rally - cars with internal combustion engine...

[Gregor-y]

I've met plenty of people that haven't moved on from the Mk 2 Escort/Quattro/Evo/WRX depending on their age. As for historics people still watch horses race...

[stefanvv]

I've met plenty of people that haven't moved on from the Mk 2 Escort/Quattro/Evo/WRX depending on their age. As for historics people still watch horses race...

I'm one of those You haven't met, but I still watch the WRC. I'm stuck in the historic area though.

[mknight]

The problem is that the choice is not just to electric or not to electric. If they decide to go to electric, the choices vary between let's plug in a same cheap standard component for everyone to look modern, and let's give everyone freedom to spend ridiculous amounts of money for new solutions to really be modern. The range is very big and every manufacturer wants different. So the result will be a lousy compromise for which no one is happy and everyone will threaten to leave anyway.

This is an excellent point. FIA has to agree with manus on hybrid or electric rules... and that is insanely painfull process.

Toyota is still pushing mostly hybrids with few electic-only, while some other manus are almost entirely skipping hybrids and going straight into electric.

For hybrids there are like million different solutions, how big/small battery, power of electric motor, how they should be coupled with engine/gearbox, will re-charging of the battery be somewhat restricted.. etc. etc.

Even if they all agree on electric then they have to agree on rules that about power (how can FIA control/restrict it so it's similar - say direct monitoring of current/voltage drain), battery size/weight etc etc.

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Historics are very nice to watch in person and pointless to follow as a "competition".

[pantealex]

For those who watch rally from "TV", electronic cars are real option. I can understand that. If you watch in-car video it doesn´t matter what kind of engine car have.

But if you watch it LIVE on stages then ...

Same thing about entries, if you don´t go watching rallies LIVE it doesn´t matter if Rally have only 30 entries but very few would go to foreign country to see 30 cars.

[janvanvurpa]

For those who watch rally from "TV", electronic cars are real option. I can understand that. If you watch in-car video it doesn´t matter what kind of engine car have.

But if you watch it LIVE on stages then ...

Same thing about entries, if you don´t go watching rallies LIVE it doesn´t matter if Rally have only 30 entries but very few would go to foreign country to see 30 cars.

or 26..of which 3 are local Evos and a handful of very amateurish little FWD econo-cars.
And that's after years of doing similar...