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Thread: [WRC] News & Rumours 2021
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4th February 2021, 10:46 #671
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4th February 2021, 10:48 #672
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Also would mean MSport being irrelevant for one more year.
At this point with MSport and Toyota commited and building and contracts signed for the electric part it is imo extremely unlikely that they will change based on Hyundai "mood".
The slow progress from pure petrol car already directly or indirectly caused Citroen to quit and Skoda not to join (2-3 years ago they were serious about it).
I agree that in 2018 it looked as perfect solution. Problem is that due to a lot of various reasons the push from pure petrol engines accelerated across the car industry.
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4th February 2021, 10:49 #673
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4th February 2021, 10:52 #674
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GR4 YARIS
Jari-Matti Latvala, new team principal, confirmed that the GR4 Yaris will be the base model of all Toyota cars starting in 2022:
“The new four-wheel drive Yaris GR4 will become the next generation WRC car. We also have the ability to produce the car in other categories. This is something Toyota is currently considering, but no final decision has been made. It would be quick and easy to transform the GR Yaris into a Rally2 and Rally3 class car ".
Having ascertained that in 2022 the hybrid Rally1 will be a GR4 Yaris, Latvala spoke of the lower class cars, focusing attention on the Rally3 category:
“The way I see it, the new Rally3 appears to be a more interesting category than Rally2 and could build on the success of Group N close to production models. Something could move in 2023”.
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4th February 2021, 10:54 #675
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I like Rally3.
"Reis vas pät pat kaar vas kut"
Tommi Mäkinen, back in the years...
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4th February 2021, 11:01 #676
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It's easy to see that TGR would have a better market in building a Rally3 car where they only compete with M-Sport, as opposed to Rally2 with many long-developed cars and it's difficult to be matching or beating them.
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4th February 2021, 11:19 #677
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4th February 2021, 12:13 #678
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It looks like Rally3 is once again something which has a very good potential. Let's see how it evolves.
Stupid is as stupid does. Forrest Gump
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4th February 2021, 13:05 #679
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4th February 2021, 19:48 #680
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Tänak and Neuville to participate in Rally Otepää at 13th of february.
"Pavlos Athanassoulas, the event director of the Acropolis Rally Greece, told Cosmote TV in an interview that all three manufacturers agreed that the current classification period should be respected...
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