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    Maybe under the current and maybe future economic status of the world would be to drop WRC17-20 cars now. And go R5/Rally2 as top class until 2022 or maybe 2023. As it look today, maybe 23 is the best option.

    A lot of money saved for factory teams, that also can use their smaller budget to develop the next gen Rally1 cars, and test them well.

    For drivers, they will get a possibility to compete with the best drivers and teams in same material. New talent will have thei chance to shine.
    FIA need of course to keep the current joker system, so the factories will go bananas in development. And the few jokers need to be made for all.

    If done this way, the new Rally1 will be a very exiting car, both for drivers and fans.
    We easily forget!!!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sulland View Post
    Maybe under the current and maybe future economic status of the world would be to drop WRC17-20 cars now. And go R5/Rally2 as top class until 2022 or maybe 2023. As it look today, maybe 23 is the best option.

    A lot of money saved for factory teams, that also can use their smaller budget to develop the next gen Rally1 cars, and test them well.

    For drivers, they will get a possibility to compete with the best drivers and teams in same material. New talent will have thei chance to shine.
    FIA need of course to keep the current joker system, so the factories will go bananas in development. And the few jokers need to be made for all.

    If done this way, the new Rally1 will be a very exiting car, both for drivers and fans.
    We easily forget!!!!!
    No, R5's are rubbish compared to WRC, and if everyone would be on WRC2 cars, the big 3 would dominate even more.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sulland View Post
    Maybe under the current and maybe future economic status of the world would be to drop WRC17-20 cars now. And go R5/Rally2 as top class until 2022 or maybe 2023. As it look today, maybe 23 is the best option.

    A lot of money saved for factory teams, that also can use their smaller budget to develop the next gen Rally1 cars, and test them well.

    For drivers, they will get a possibility to compete with the best drivers and teams in same material. New talent will have thei chance to shine.
    FIA need of course to keep the current joker system, so the factories will go bananas in development. And the few jokers need to be made for all.

    If done this way, the new Rally1 will be a very exiting car, both for drivers and fans.
    We easily forget!!!!!
    How many times have we had this discussion in the past? If R5 are the top class it will make them more expensive and less accessible for everyone. It won't make WRC dramatically cheaper but it will make everything else more expensive. Please don't touch R5 when they work as a class.
    Stupid is as stupid does. Forrest Gump

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tauri_J View Post
    No, R5's are rubbish compared to WRC, and if everyone would be on WRC2 cars, the big 3 would dominate even more.
    Toyota don't have that kind of car, so they would be out. VW said that they don't support ICE anymore, Proton is too small, Skoda is not interested anymore. So that leaves only two options and very unlikely to happen.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mirek View Post
    How many times have we had this discussion in the past? If R5 are the top class it will make them more expensive and less accessible for everyone. It won't make WRC dramatically cheaper but it will make everything else more expensive. Please don't touch R5 when they work as a class.
    If FIA are not able to find a way to make sure development and cost will be allowed to spiral in R5 for a year or two, they need to find something else to do.

    They have tools in their box already.

    1. Maxprice
    2. Joker system


    It is just to make sure they control this according to their own rules.

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    Quote Originally Posted by deephouse View Post
    Toyota don't have that kind of car, so they would be out.
    Tommi/Toyota are developing a brand new WRC car now for 2021, that looks like it'll only see one year's use. The idea that they couldn't have an R5 ready for 2022 (if needs be) is ridiculous, especially when we've been led to believe some work has already been done on the R5 project.

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    Read again, the talk was about now, until 2022, when there`s a crisis going on in the society (and economy), top class should be r5...and that is impossible.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tarmop View Post
    Read again, the talk was about now, until 2022, when there`s a crisis going on in the society (and economy), top class should be r5...and that is impossible.
    Woops! Didn't consider that as there's surely no chance of them being dropped for the remainder of this season. More likely this season won't resume at all if things are that bad.

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    I agree, this was the best era imo. 98 had 5 different winners in the first 5 events

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    Quote Originally Posted by L555MAT View Post
    I agree, this was the best era imo. 98 had 5 different winners in the first 5 events
    but those 5 won every event that year.
    In 2017 we had 7 different winners

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