[WRC] News & rumours (part III)

[COD]

Very nice livery!

Yah, very similar to the one his dad had in the great Escort Cosworth way back when

[makinen_fan]

Autosport reports that there are plans to introduce monocoque inside cars for better safety
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/116716

How can they do this if rally cars are based in production cars and not prototypes?

[AndyRAC]

Ah, so like DTM cars....

[Gregor-y]

The safest way to run the crew in a rally car is in tandem, with the co-driver calling pacenotes from behind the driver.

All co-drivers in the future will be three year old and ride in booster seats. Rather than pacenotes all they will be allowed to ask is 'are we there yet?'

[Franky]

So essentially they want to make the cars safer and more expensive?

[SubaruNorway]

How does that make it safer when they would have to be something like 20cm closer to the roof because of the transmission tunnel?

[Mirek]

How does that make it safer when they would have to be something like 20cm closer to the roof because of the transmission tunnel?

That. Plus how would they get out in case of crash? Is there going to be mandatory four-door configuration? How will they solve non-functional intercom? Where will be the spare wheels (man sitting in low race position takes much more place than passenger in a stock car)? It sounds quite ridiculous.

[AndyRAC]

http://www.quattroworld.com/audi-spo...new-standards/

I presume thats why the segment D cars have been mentioned?

[Simmi]

Regardless of the segment, I have a hard time believing that the WRC is capable of anything that radical, unless it's trying to mess up the format of rallies.

[tommeke_B]

Maybe it's a way to justify making next generation WRC cars faster, as what has been rumored?