GT Class

[Rally Power]

We have 5-8-10 drivers that they have spent 200-300k euro to compete at Spanish-Belgium -Italian championship.
Somebody comes with a gt car with 420 bhp and 300mm width tyre and taking advantage (from the 100-120 bhp plus at same weight),at straights(at corners he is slower) and become champion.
All the other drivers while they are much better/faster,cant become champions,due to power/tyres advantage.They will win a class,not a championship.So there is no need to spent 200-300k for a win class,when somebody with less than half money can become champion from these advantages.
Rallyes always are run under rules.For decades and at ALL classes and championships.And rgt cars had big advantage from rules at power and tyres width. Thats not rallying.(...)
If Vallejo or somebody else wants to win the local championship,there is only one way.To buy/rent a r5 car and compete against the other drivers.With same power.and same tyres.

Are you also against Nikara and the others guys in Finland using GrN+ Evos and Imprezas? They’re also capable to beat R5’s with old cars that should cost under 100.000€!

Btw, if a guy in an R5 can be pissed to see a half priced 911 or Impreza beating him, what about RRC’s drivers? They also got their half a million cars severely limited to level S2000’s and R5’s power, but they were delighted to run their downgraded WRC’s (till FIA managed to throw them out of the road with the 28mm restrictor!).

I agree with the previous post: Rally needs diversity and there’s no problem to put at the same level different kinds of cars and get drivers with smaller budgets fighting alongside top drivers and teams for regional or national championships.

It’s true that unlimited 911’s were a bit too strong for R5’s (btw, 911’s are cheap to buy and run, because most of them are old racing cars used in former Porsche GT3 Cup’s around the world) but the same way FIA managed to balanced RRC’s with R5’s during last seasons, they could also managed to get a reasonable compromise with GT’s (and even with N4/R4, like now the Fins are doing).

Somehow, the 39mm restrictor was a sign that FIA was simply allowing RGT without giving them a proper chance to be competitive, and it’s a shame to see Spain ASN following FIA path. For sure some kind of limitation was needed when the 3.8 911 was introduced, but with R5 getting each day more competitive it’s a bit stupid to restrain them now so severely.