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Thread: [WRC] News & Rumours 2019
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6th March 2019, 15:29 #1591
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6th March 2019, 15:43 #1592
More noise about Canada:Rally Canada urged to be ready for a WRC round within five years
Matton told Autosport last month that he favoured two winter rallies on the WRC calendar and a Canadian event is seen as part of that solution.
A mild Rally Sweden put the issue of finding a cold, snow-sure event back on the sport's agenda and an Ottawa-based February rally could be that event.
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6th March 2019, 15:44 #1593
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6th March 2019, 15:54 #1594
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The problem is that the choice is not just to electric or not to electric. If they decide to go to electric, the choices vary between let's plug in a same cheap standard component for everyone to look modern, and let's give everyone freedom to spend ridiculous amounts of money for new solutions to really be modern. The range is very big and every manufacturer wants different. So the result will be a lousy compromise for which no one is happy and everyone will threaten to leave anyway.
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6th March 2019, 16:48 #1595
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6th March 2019, 17:52 #1596
I've met plenty of people that haven't moved on from the Mk 2 Escort/Quattro/Evo/WRX depending on their age. As for historics people still watch horses race...
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6th March 2019, 19:00 #1597
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6th March 2019, 19:40 #1598
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This is an excellent point. FIA has to agree with manus on hybrid or electric rules... and that is insanely painfull process.
Toyota is still pushing mostly hybrids with few electic-only, while some other manus are almost entirely skipping hybrids and going straight into electric.
For hybrids there are like million different solutions, how big/small battery, power of electric motor, how they should be coupled with engine/gearbox, will re-charging of the battery be somewhat restricted.. etc. etc.
Even if they all agree on electric then they have to agree on rules that about power (how can FIA control/restrict it so it's similar - say direct monitoring of current/voltage drain), battery size/weight etc etc.
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Historics are very nice to watch in person and pointless to follow as a "competition".Last edited by mknight; 6th March 2019 at 19:44.
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6th March 2019, 20:07 #1599
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For those who watch rally from "TV", electronic cars are real option. I can understand that. If you watch in-car video it doesnīt matter what kind of engine car have.
But if you watch it LIVE on stages then ...
Same thing about entries, if you donīt go watching rallies LIVE it doesnīt matter if Rally have only 30 entries but very few would go to foreign country to see 30 cars."quattro best 4wd rallycar ever"
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6th March 2019, 20:12 #1600
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At 19:15 Saturday, the FIA are announcing a new WRC event for 2025 at Sardegna. The event, I don't know - perhaps Paraguay.
WRC Calendar 2025