Quote Originally Posted by saco0o View Post
what? i could swear i read that builders needed to have some kinda of manufacturer 'agreement' and that the body pannels needed to be more or less like an actual road car. i think NOT having to follow that is even better. i remember thinking "ahh but then they arent going to find manufacturers willing to autorize them to build cars". good news imo haha
There was talk of bodywork tuners having to associate with a WRC27 chassis manufacturer and this is when there was talk of production engines. That 'association' makes some sense because whatever the bodywork, the car underneath would legally be the chassis manufacturer's car and parts and servicing would obviously be associated with it.

But they replaced that with constructors and partial homologations and it seems the production engine requirement has gone. Which makes a lot more sense, Toyota are not going to be selling rolling chasses and allowing others to put their own designs onto what will always be a Toyota car - I think we can rule that out. It'll more likely be the Project Ones who do that, if they choose to, but if they still required a Project One chassis to have a production engine block they aren't solving the problem of being tied to unwilling production manufacturers. Getting those relationships, agreements and involvement between the tuners and engine suppliers is a pretty big obstruction to participation, it's just a dumb idea.

At no point did anyone's car have to look like a manufacturer's mass produced road car. It was always allowing bespoke designs that look like they belong to the 'road car genre' rather than looking like a crosskart, buggy, formula ford, pick up truck... Everything is looking good for the minute.