WRC mainclass from 2027

[Kenneth]

^ Agree.

Brand new cars to last for decades and the Rally2 or Rally2 sourced - whatever it is - engine is not the long term sole solution.

It totally is long term solution, more so when the regs are designed for future flexibility in mind.

Rally2 sourced engine is just fancy phrasing for road-car derived engines, which is imo important.

FIA can anytime allow other displacement than 1.6T, and they hinted they will in future, as well alternative powertrains. They just need to develop some good way of balance of power (they already say they don't want balance of performance ala circuit racing).

At this point it's a platform that allows just Rally2-like cars (not just powertrain, basically everything but chassis and suspension is same spec as Rally2 rn). But the platform allows to do almost anything with the cars.

[EstWRC]

Well, should be around 15 teams aiming for top5, in the "holy" rally1 its 5 toyotas in the same place.
Much better in all means.

This weekends rally in sweden is what i think i rally2 based wrc would be like, so if you dont think it would be cool, just watch the rally and jugde after.

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Ok if an entry list with two just big names, Suninen and Sesks is a massive competition for you then you have really low standards.

And why you guys say every time “go and watch it”
I have been to plenty of rallies and watched also plenty in my life and I don’t get it how this one rally now suddenly should change my view.

And about Vaher, I’m telling ya he is the real deal

[speederbee]

I wonder if more manufacturers participate if the WRC had more tarmac than gravel. Personally I like gravel rallies, but, in my part of the world gravel roads are so rare that most people here probably don't know they even exist. I see why the marketing people could think it's not good advertising. Maybe a mostly tarmac WRC would interest the likes of Porsche, BMW, etc.

[AndersX]

Massive competition? Really?

What would be massive in your understanding - amount of similar fast cars and drivers as runners in the Boston Marathon?
I have watched ERC live, there are many fast drivers, plus check the startlist for this rally - very high levele competition. Plus, by some interesting reason, there is a new gen of swe drivers that are rising fast.

[AndersX]

Well, should be around 15 teams aiming for top5, in the "holy" rally1 its 5 toyotas in the same place.
Much better in all means.

This weekends rally in sweden is what i think i rally2 based wrc would be like, so if you dont think it would be cool, just watch the rally and jugde after.

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100%!

[AndersX]

Ok if an entry list with two just big names, Suninen and Sesks is a massive competition for you then you have really low standards.

And why you guys say every time “go and watch it”
I have been to plenty of rallies and watched also plenty in my life and I don’t get it how this one rally now suddenly should change my view.

And about Vaher, I’m telling ya he is the real deal

The point is - 2027 will look like this weekend, just with some 10 more fast drivers in addition. I have a feeling that in 2027 getting into top 10 will be challanging. That means - very fast driving on the edge with tech that wont forgive mistakes.

[trykmann]

The point is - 2027 will look like this weekend, just with some 10 more fast drivers in addition. I have a feeling that in 2027 getting into top 10 will be challanging. That means - very fast driving on the edge with tech that wont forgive mistakes.

That is what we want. Right now if you change a tyre you could still end up on 4th or 5th place.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Ok if an entry list with two just big names, Suninen and Sesks is a massive competition for you then you have really low standards.

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Your 2 big names weren't in the top 3 in Qualifying (P4 &P5).

And the rest of the top 10 were within tenths of them.

[EstWRC]

Your 2 big names weren't in the top 3 in Qualifying (P4 &P5).

And the rest of the top 10 were within tenths of them.

Nice try

First of all, they aren’t my big names, they are most known I saw on the entry list, don’t care if they are there or not

Second of all, yeah let’s make conclusions already based on qualifying stage.

Third, this is off topic anyway

[deephouse]

I wonder if more manufacturers participate if the WRC had more tarmac than gravel. Personally I like gravel rallies, but, in my part of the world gravel roads are so rare that most people here probably don't know they even exist. I see why the marketing people could think it's not good advertising. Maybe a mostly tarmac WRC would interest the likes of Porsche, BMW, etc.

Definetely should be at least one event with mixed surface on calendar. If the car is capable of driving on paved roads and gravel, snow and ice, it's capable racing on both surfaceS withing the weekend. Also if the team is capable transforming car for different surface, it's capable to do it on the same weekend. There is no excuses.

if there were half tarmac events they need to be different, so the championship wouldn't became too boring.

SUVs was meant to be the car for driving on gravel, rough terrain. Funny is that WRC happen on mostly that type of surface. And brands do actually seel only those kind of cars, so they should be following that path and promote their products as they fit perfectly into that.