Ok, for sure Huttunen is amazingly talented and as all Finns he looks like a fish inside the water on his home rally SS’s, but to see a work driver like Camilli being slower than a kid that’s getting his first R5 outing doesn’t help to believe the French has improved that much...
But at the same time Camilli haven't really been that far off the other WRC guys this year, then we can compare Tidemand and Lappi earlier years, and then look at Lappi now (or even Suninen).
So, Huttunen would be on Lappi-level already then?
Answer: NO
WRC Regulations
17.1.1 Each Manufacturer must use no more than 2 engines per car
name per season (see also Art.17.2.2 and Art. 17.2.3).
But
17.2.3 When a car does not finish...
Where do you set the limit?
Do you allow a new engine and a new gearbox on every day of every event?
Using your figures that would be €1.5 million in engines and gearboxes every event!
The WRC has some stupid rules.
The manufacturers spent 60 miilions a year or more to win titles, and then they limite engines to only two?
A third one would blow the budgets? Seriously?
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Answer: NO WRC Regulations 17.1.1 Each Manufacturer must use no more than 2 engines per car name per season (see also Art.17.2.2 and Art. 17.2.3). But 17.2.3 When a car does not finish...
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