2024 WRC News & Rumours

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Evans says 'everything we have is massively expensive"..

But if it is mainly the carbon fibre panels surely the rules could've easily banned them and have them made of metal ?

[HKSjbg]

How cheaply can you make all bespoke body panels though? The Puma is most obvious example where the overall look of the road car is the same, but how much is actually shared with it?

Other than lights, do they have to use a standard (modified) bonnet? Windows? The wings and doors clearly aren’t based on the road car shape as the height of the bonnet and flanks of a Puma are much lower on the Rally1 version than the road car.

[Tauri_J]

They need to introduce lots of spec parts to try to keep costs down.

[denkimi]

nobody is stopping them from making those parts in polyester and saving a lot of money.

[Steve Boyd]

How cheaply can you make all bespoke body panels though? The Puma is most obvious example where the overall look of the road car is the same, but how much is actually shared with it?

Other than lights, do they have to use a standard (modified) bonnet? Windows? The wings and doors clearly aren’t based on the road car shape as the height of the bonnet and flanks of a Puma are much lower on the Rally1 version than the road car.

These space frame cars don't have to be the same size as the production model - a rule intended to encourage maufacturers that didn't have a car the right size to fit the Rally1 dimensions to enter a look-alike of a slightly bigger model. That means all bespoke panels which rules out metal panels because of the tooling costs to make them.

nobody is stopping them from making those parts in polyester and saving a lot of money.

Requiring the body panels to be GRP and banning carbon would make some cost savings on the material but the tooling and labour would still be the same so the saving wouldn't be as big as you might expect.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

[CeskyOndra]

Its gonna be pretty much hard to beat Toyota in Sweden

[EstWRC]

Heard that last year too…

[rp]

Its gonna be pretty much hard to beat Toyota in Sweden

Tänak is simply faster.

[spyros]

Tänak is simply faster.

Faster than Kalle? i dont think so.