Rally 3 class

**Andre Oliveira** · 9th April 2025, 20:27

Armstrong and Fontana in development test in Portugal

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**BBman** · 7th July 2025, 10:34

Originally Posted by BBman

They are consistently at around 2 seconds/km slower that Rally 2. Not sure if that is good or bad, but there is definetly room for another mm in restrictor size.

Referring back to my comment from 2023, which was argued upon. At Rally di Roma Capitale, the leading Rally 3 was 2.9s/km from the winning RC2. Ok, not a top driver, but neither was the leading Rally 4 only 0.4s/km away.
It is obvious that tarmac is not a strong surface for the Rally 3. But it doesn't get much better on gravel. At Acropolis the difference between Solberg and Turkkan Ali was... 2.9s/km. Yet again, a particular rally and you cannot compare the two drivers, even if Turkkan is a very talented driver (imo). But even compared to Prokop, the difference is still over 2.1s/km.

The point I want to make is that the rallies where you have a Rally 3 under 2s/km vs Rally 2 are the exceptions.
I do not want to bash the class, but I do not believe that this was the intended performance gap, especially considering the cost.