With all this talk about how the Rally1-cars are like the Rally2-cars but with more power, a bit more aero and the hybrid-element...
Wouldn't it make more sense in the long term for the teams to have the developing drivers do more time driving Rally2? No center-diff or active diffs, less aero, 5-speed with stick... Especially Oliver Solberg, but also Katsuta.
Yes, especially for Solberg it didn't make much sense to "learn" the current WRC cars. However for Katsuta, I think the problem is that they don't have Toyota's Rally2 car...
It doesn't help that current rally cars are the fundamentally wrong cars for rallying now (in my oppinion).
We should be driving super cars and/or jeeps, since with them you at least have a...
Yes. The current Rally1 only share a "looks somewhat like" production cars, get rid even of that last thing and you're looking at a different entity.
It's like if you are walking towards the...
I don't want to second guess what you heard, but I don't see where Lancia can get the budget to rally a full season as a works-team.
Since that is the crucial condition to homologate the kit. You...
The core aspect being the car must share some characteristics of a body shell chassis of a production car that is capable of doing what's not necessary and not capable of doing what's necessary in...
It doesn't help that current rally cars are the fundamentally wrong cars for rallying now (in my oppinion). We should be driving super cars and/or jeeps, since with them you at least have a...
WRC mainclass from 2027