Rally Discussion and Bar Talk Thread

**Jarek Z** · 31st January 2025, 08:40

Originally Posted by tbazsi95

He has a very nice M3.
https://youtu.be/YlwRnxiwXxw?si=I1A5j6l8bHpaDupI

It is beautiful:
https://www.facebook.com/lifelivemot...EAJfADBXxDzYVl

**Fast Eddie WRC** · 31st January 2025, 08:46

Originally Posted by Eli

Just announced this morning, Ford will compete in the 24hr race of Le-Mans in 2027 (and effectively will join the WEC that year).

FIA World Endurance Championship @FIAWEC

BREAKING: Ford to enter Hypercar class.

Ford has today announced that it will enter the Hypercar class of the FIA World Endurance Championship and the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2027.We officially have another brand new Hypercar on its way.

A bit worrying as Ford isn't flush with cash and WRC support may have to go...

**AndyRAC** · 31st January 2025, 10:27

Originally Posted by Eli

Just announced this morning, Ford will compete in the 24hr race of Le-Mans in 2027 (and effectively will join the WEC that year).

You can't race Le Mans on it's own; they're entering the WEC.....and very likely IMSA in the following years.

**Eli** · 31st January 2025, 17:49

Originally Posted by AndyRAC

You can't race Le Mans on it's own; they're entering the WEC.....and very likely IMSA in the following years.

I literally wrote that inside the brackets.

**bearclaw** · 26th February 2025, 14:13

I’m very interested in rally routes and I liked to put together some fantasy routes in the past, as good as possible, based on the FIA Sporting Regulations 2024/2025. In 2025 it is allowed to do some Remote Service Zones, like in the past. I think they tried it at CER Rally in 2024 on the Czech side on Friday.

Recently there were some articles on Dirtfish about a possible WRC Event in UK/Scotland.

https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/what-...uld-look-like/
https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/feasi...return-begins/

Based on that, I tried to make a route with a service park in Aberdeen, Ceremonial Start in Edinburgh, SSS at the Knockhill Racing Circuit. It was important for me to put in some legacy from the classic RAC events in the past. For that I put together some park stages as well. The rally should be a forest gravel event – what else.

Day 1 around Perth (Knockhill Racing Circuit - Perth - overnight halt Perth, remote service Perh Airport like in the IRC days)
Day 2 northwest of Perth - road section to Aberdeen
Day 3 southwest of Aberdeen
Day 4 norhwest of Aberdeen

All stages, except one park stage and the Shakedown were used already in the past as a rally stage. The stages are from Events like: Speyside Stages, Grampian Forest Rally, Rally of Scotland (IRC days), Colin McRae Forest Stages Rally and Knockhill Stages Rally. I tried to connect some stages, made it a bit longer or shorter, sometimes with different start and finish areas as run on the events above.

In total the competitive route includes 21 special stages with 348,38km. The total rally route is 1406km. The distances are not that exactly but I did the route with mapfab and I think the distances are not that far away.

I would like to hear your opinion about that fantasy route and maybe some locals can say if these stages are still possible and are available for rallying?! In Kirriemuir, near the Bon Scott statue, I placed a refueling zone during the road section.

Here is the full itinerary and the rally map.

https://www.mapfab.com/map/AhDb/RSAC...-Rally-GB-2026

**Bigalstosh99** · 26th February 2025, 19:40

Great idea! Lots of fantastic stages in Scotland all across the country. Perthshire and Aberdeenshire offer great forests right enough.

I would probably go a different way and pick a route across the Trossachs stages and Argyll forests; brilliant roads with plenty of elevation in classic Scottish countryside.

But there’s plenty of other great routes using other regions too.

**Eli** · 8th March 2025, 08:26

Unrelated to Rally but the Race of Champions is back this weekend after 2 years hiatus in Sydney. Not as cool as it was in Sweden back in 2023 but still cool.