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Thread: Rally1 hybrid cars (2022-)
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22nd January 2022, 16:18 #551
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I think I have changed my views about WRC over the last months.
3 brands is enough! 3 teams is not. I personally wish we could have 3 brands but 6 or 7 teams, racing one year old cars (starting in 2023 with the 2022 cars and so on, like the Ducatti teams in MotoGP - not sure if this is possible in new WRC rules tho). NOt sure how the economics of that would work too but imagine having Lotos, IceOne, Qatar, AbuDhabi, Chicherit, ProDrive, Prokop with Rally1 car teams too! Some costumers, some satellites, some privatters... Different collors, maybe some design change allowed... I know we have Rally2 already but they will never be the top class and I honestly LOVE the WRC and Rally1 cars more than any other class haha so give us more teams! (more cars, more drivers)
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23rd January 2022, 00:16 #552
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Middle of the night can't sleep wheelbase factoid: all these cars have slightly longer wheelbase than their road going counterparts. Puma 12mm, i20 N 50mm, GR Yaris 70mm. Who says smaller is better?
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23rd January 2022, 07:36 #553
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They all have roughly 100mm longer wheelbase than the Octavia WRC and Subaru S12 WRC had.
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23rd January 2022, 08:02 #554
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23rd January 2022, 08:12 #555
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F1 is a different beast in terms of media exposure though.
F1 also technically only has 3 manufacturers (Ferrari, Merc and Alpine/Renault), with Red Bull just a powerhouse of an organisation.
Rallying could maybe improve with sub teams - like 2C Hyundai running 2 cars. Or when we had the Stobart Ford Team.
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23rd January 2022, 08:22 #556
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There's certainly not a restriction to add more teams and cars to the championship. But it seems that at the moment no company is willing to pay the bill for the return they think it's going to offer.
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23rd January 2022, 08:58 #557
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In F1 teams get paid for points (based on selling TV rights).
In WRC teams pay the promoter (via championship entry fees) and get nothing for points.
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23rd January 2022, 10:42 #558
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23rd January 2022, 14:41 #559
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OK so the first rally with the new cars is done and it's not been too bad.
Yes there have been quite a few problems with them but only Hyundai's caused retirement.
On a positive note it was nice that so many drivers said they liked their car (esp M-Sport's) and I didn't hear any moaning about the manual gear change, lack of centre-diff, lack of aero or reduced suspension travel.
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23rd January 2022, 14:48 #560
It was on qualifying stage, he rolled the car and it was said that he won't be able to start the rally. But team managed to repair the car and he did start and dominated drivers like Rossel, Gryazin...
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