Bottas’s lap time should have been well out of reach of a guy on 30 lap old slower compound tires. Whether he could have responded or not is irrelevant. They both had one hot lap, one guy on brand spanking new tires, on the other on 30 lap old tires and the guy with the old tires came out on top.
That Hamilton lap [1:27:369] was 3.3 seconds faster than the old race lap record from 2017 which was 1:30:612. Awesome
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Next year looks like...
(Factory) GR Yaris WRC27 vs
(Factory) Lancia Rally2; Hyundia Rally2; M-Sport Fiesta Rally2 vs
(Customer Teams) GR Yaris Rally2; Skoda Rally2; Citroen Rally2
Williams becomes final team to run its 2026 F1 car on track.
Williams completed this run as part of its 'promotional filming day' allowance. It will complete a second such filming day in Bahrain on...
Problem is that most of current Rally2 manufacturers (or at least half of them) is not interested in factory teams or to be in the highest class of rallysport. They are customers oriented... And this...
Thank you for the confirmation.
I think it will be mostly Rally2 cars in the top class for quite a few years before there are enough WRC27 cars homologated and built. The new cars will appear at...
Next year looks like... (Factory) GR Yaris WRC27 vs (Factory) Lancia Rally2; Hyundia Rally2; M-Sport Fiesta Rally2 vs (Customer Teams) GR Yaris Rally2; Skoda Rally2; Citroen Rally2
WRC mainclass from 2027