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Thread: [WRC] News & Rumours 2019
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4th August 2018, 22:38 #11
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4th August 2018, 23:41 #12
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Sorry but absolutely not. How are You going to explain that all the marketing job promoting R5 was in fact promoting hidden R2? How are You going to explain that the websites dedicated to the R5 cars were in fact dedicated to R2? How are You going to explain that all the catalogs, manuals, tools, spare parts with R5 written on them are actually all about R2 stuff? How are You going to explain the nonsensial change in event results from year to year in let's say twenty years?
Does it make sense to You? Seriously this is more than retarded proposal.Stupid is as stupid does. Forrest Gump
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5th August 2018, 01:12 #13
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If nothing else, sticking with the 'R[Number]' nomenclature while completely reordering the system does seem like a ridiculous recipe for confusion on every level. At the very least, they'd need a new nomenclature.
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5th August 2018, 12:56 #14
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5th August 2018, 13:42 #15
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This thread seems apt, but only for April 1st 2019!!
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5th August 2018, 14:15 #16
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I would open a new thread to vote wether this one is useful or not.
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5th August 2018, 16:29 #17
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Marketing: all people you are marketing towards will know within a short period of and understand that it things will have to change.
Websites: this is easy to change. Most of this is manufacturers, and have people dedicated for IT.
Documents: find R5, replace with R2.
Historical results: put in a sentence on change of name by a date.
In a few months this will be fixed, and the relatively few people this concerns, will all understand and be onboard.
Mirek, you think this is stupid, and try to find arguments to fight it off. I do the opposite.
I understand FIA on this issue, admitting that the R Class naming convetion is not logical compared to other competitions, and want to fix the error.
This is meant for non petrolhead people, to easier understand what kind of level a car is in the hierarchy. Also for drivers chasing sponsors that are not very familiar with rally classes.
That a R5 car is driving in RC2 or WRC2 is the next quickest cartype is not logical to average joe.
Using your logic you have to agree with this?
This is not a big issue, but I understand why the rally comission want rally to come in line with formula racings class logic.
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5th August 2018, 17:11 #18
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5th August 2018, 17:38 #19
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So logically they would have to call WRC cars, R1 cars...
That sounds awful.
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6th August 2018, 06:17 #20
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A bit strange to drive from service all the way to the start of the stage then tbh. Could also have used it for testing, but arguably studded tires and semi-gravel rally is not similar to anything...
Rally Sweden 14-17 FEB 2019