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11th December 2025, 15:20 #10Senior Member
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That doesn't really make sense. It's FIA who homologates rally cars and part of the homologation is the cars will be able to drive on public roads. It doesn't matter if it's space frame car or Rally5.
I will again argue with Dakar. The space frame cars looks nothing like the road cars they share name with. And fans doesn't care, they just see a Hilux winning, they don't car it has nothing to do with a Hilux they have at home. There are even prototypes that don't even resemble any road car like Audi or Dacia. There are some branded private project too, like Martin Prokop's old Raptor RS or this year there is VW Amarok. This should be available to do with WRC27 too (if FIA didn't change it yet), and make sense if the team/driver have a partnership with a local branch or a dealer.
And then, there are privateer's cars like Century, MD Optimus, Red Lined, or these Chinese projects, that are acting as their own brands. Sure, some people can argue that it would be better if they were branded by some automaker, by why would they do that, when they have no connection to them? I don't care if they look like cars I can see on road or not, better competition is much more important.
Also doing this can show that the privateer company is good and at a chance from some manufacturer, just as it happened in Dakar with Prodrive and Dacia.
This just doesn't work as argument, at all. If you talk abou Breen, that was purely unlucky, it would end the same in every car. The safety cell that is in the use is designed mainly to improve in front impact and side impact.
Also unfortunately, Breen's crash wasn't the "latest deadly crash". There are multiple deadly crashes every year. And these also happens in Rally2s and Rally4s, not just in some older group a cars.
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