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Thread: [WRC] News & Rumours 2019
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19th September 2018, 09:09 #251
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https://rallysportmag.com/detailed-w...onship-190918/
Proposed changes for 2019
- Permanent driver numbers except no1 for champion
- Less mechanics per car on a rally
- Less testing days
- Free testing area diameter from 50 km to 10 km from team hq (bad news for Toyota)
- Car must have four rotating wheels at the start of a stage (remember Meeke in Portugal)
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19th September 2018, 09:34 #252
https://www.autosport.com/wrc/news/1...019-wrc-return
Toyota wants Meeke for 2019 apparently.Only you know your true potential.
This year we rally #ForCraig
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19th September 2018, 09:58 #253
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19th September 2018, 10:03 #254
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First one. I hate it. I don't have any other words for it as it is literally stupid. It's not circuit racing, where you have a rather fixed number of entrants and most of them don't change for a decade anyway.
Reduction of testing area diameter. Think it is literally to fight Toyota.
Less mechanics per car. How much do they actually win from that? Or there are mechanics at a rally who do not do anything?Never stop dreaming because one day it might happen.
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19th September 2018, 10:21 #256
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19th September 2018, 10:47 #257
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19th September 2018, 10:59 #258
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Less testing days means fewer costs, sure, but this combined with the homologation joker system could also mean if your car isn't designed perfectly to start with, it's then hard to catch up. This potentially leads to the danger of a dominant team, or more funds spent on initial R&D.
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19th September 2018, 11:00 #259
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Totally up for limiting testing (both days and anti-Toyota range, you kind of have to do both limits at same time).
Testing costs a lot with no clear benefit for spectators.
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19th September 2018, 11:48 #260
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That won't happen though and here is why,
The proposal is to allow 9 technicians, in reality this means 9 armbands, not people. The teams who have larger budgets will have fresh technicians and specialists on the sidelines to swap in and out of armbands. They'll put 6 techs on one car if they need to in order to change several components at the same time. It happens now and will continue to happen no matter the restriction. There is no cost savings here.
The reality of what will happen to most teams is the mechanics will be working even harder creating a potential safety issue. This is not the place to attempt to save money, which it won't, as there are other places that cuts could be made.
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