Rally 3 class

[AnttiL]

Latvala said in Finnish radio that Toyota won’t be having a lower class car out in 2022, earliest at late 2023

[Jarek Z]

Latvala said in Finnish radio that Toyota won’t be having a lower class car out in 2022, earliest at late 2023

Where is the "Dislike" button?

[Jarek Z]

Great pace from Sami Pajari in this weekend's Finnish national rally, in his first 4WD rally. During the first six stages he was constantly faster than Group N Mitsubishis, and even faster than Riku Tahko's Hyundai R5!

Wow! He was even 7th overall on stage 6, faster than Asunmaa, Salo and Pepe Lopez!

https://www.ewrc-results.com/results...2021/?s=336629

https://www.ewrc-results.com/image/6...?entry=3136776

It was a night stage. Have a look:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRgLoxgjExE

[ictus]

Wow! He was even 7th overall on stage 6, faster than Asunmaa, Salo and Pepe Lopez!

https://www.ewrc-results.com/results...2021/?s=336629

https://www.ewrc-results.com/image/6...?entry=3136776

It was a night stage. Have a look:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRgLoxgjExE

He did a simular thing in a winter rally with a rally4 fiesta (6th or 7th overall on a stage in a field of more than 20 r5 cars) so it's more the skills of Sami than the brilliance of the rally3 fiesta

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Where is the "Dislike" button?

It's a real shame if even those manufacturer's who claim to be really into the sport aren't rushing to support it at the lower levels.

Delay of another year or two of other Rally3 cars coming along could kill it as a viable worldwide championship catagory.

[Sulland]

Ok, so we know Toyota, due to hybrid Rally1 postpone their Rally3 project at least one year to late 2023.
They have a large team both in Finland and Germany, so to put aside a Customer Team should be possible.

Any french members or others that have heard anything on the Renault Rally3 project. They do it in the opposite direction working their way up the pyramid.

If that project also is pushed to 2023/24 Ford will have the market for one or two seasons all to themselves. MSport Poland will be very happy if that is the case.

At least up here in the gravel and snow countries many are thinking about buying a Rally3 car, to go up from rally4 or coming from an old grN or grA car in national classes. They are becoming more and more expensive to maintain, and gets beaten by modern Rally3 cars, that in total becomes cheaper to run over a seson.

[HKSjbg]

What about Hyundai? Now that their new Rally2 car is out perhaps that team have the time to take on a Rally3 project?

[Sulland]

What classes has different nations put rally3 into nationally?
In its own class, or into existing class?

[AnttiL]

Rally3 will be the designated class of SM3 in Finland next year. This year it has been just Rally4/R2 cars

[Jarek Z]

Lukasz Byskiniewicz was 10th overall and 1st in class 3 in the final results of Rally Swidnicki last week. There is still one rally to go in the Polish championship, but Byskiniewicz already won the championship of class 3. Congratulations!

Classification of class 3 (with one rally still to go):
http://www.pzm.com.pl/rajdy/2021/narastajacoRsmp/3.pdf

Final results of Rally Swidnicki:
https://www.ewrc-results.com/final/6...i-krause-2021/

Photo of the winning car:
https://www.ewrc-results.com/image/6...=3137044&car=0

Photo of the winning crew:
https://cdn-1.motorsport.com/images/...ukasz-by-3.jpg