WRC Rally Monza 2021

[wwbroe]

Nice surprise to see Greg Munster on the entry list

[Tom K]

Thank you, Andre! I forgot about this.

[ouvreur]

Lindholm's use of the loophole was cheeky. This just seems wrong.

[mknight]

Well sadly no more surprises. Somehow I expected some more "paydrivers" for (cheap) last run with 2017 cars.

Only good one is Crugnola driving and also as WRC3 (and not outside of WRC3 like some other Italians last year).
Else the competition in RC2 is just a shadow of last year in terms of quality.

Pretty funny with Gryazian driving for "Movisport SRL" against Toksport with likely Toksports car, after already using MSport Fiesta for same purpose. Obviously WRC2 team title is a bit of a joke, but I wonder if there is some money associated with the win or why teams care at all.

[denkimi]

Lindholm's use of the loophole was cheeky. This just seems wrong.

its just because of the stupid rules keeping him from participating in wrc3.

[mknight]

its just because of the stupid rules keeping him from participating in wrc3.

In Lindholms case he couldn't start as WRC3 cause he had max starts this year. Starting outside of WRC3 would put him a long way down the starting order. WRC2 has own rules that allow starting a as "non scoring" driver precisely for this, that WRC3 is missing this is just a technicality with no real meaning.

Lefevbres case is very different. The rules about not allowing drivers that drove WRC for points is to avoid experienced top drivers from dominating the category for "young drivers" (like Mikkelsen did in Monza last year) and forcing them to drive WRC2 instead.

[ouvreur]

Precisely that.

Let's see if anything is done...

[WRCStan]

Should think that WRC3 going Rally3 will remove this particular rule, but what made Lefebvre do WRC3 instead of entering as non-priority driver?

[tigerlily]

Another rule “breaking” with Lefebvre being codriver?

https://www.ewrc-results.com/entries...ly-monza-2021/

Gilles de Turckheim is the best friend of Julien Ingrassia. I think he wants to participate in this rally because this is the last rally for Ingrassia.
But as Andre mentioned, his driver Lefebvre is not allowed to enter in WRC3, so that's why he entered himself as a driver and Lefebvre as a co-driver. In the race, Lefebvre will drive, I think.

[denkimi]

Should think that WRC3 going Rally3 will remove this particular rule, but what made Lefebvre do WRC3 instead of entering as non-priority driver?

Starting at the front.

As non priority driver you start at the back, which reduces your chance of getting a good result.