GT Class

[Mirek]

Above all, ASN’s should be looking to get as much competitors as they can, for their national series. R5’s are great rally cars, very well developed and built, but they are (like most of all the others R cars) a kind of monopoly, being supplied by only 4 or 5 official tuners. This way prices will tend to be very high (as we all know), so ASN’s must look around to find other compatibles ways for less wealthy crews get their share of competitive rallying as well.

Exactly. And that's why replacing 5 rally-addicted manufacturers with 1 totally indifferent to rallying is wrong move. Tell me what other choice do You have in Spain if You want to compete with Porsches? Only Porsche. There's no other way You could beat them on regular basis. As a result You have 5-8 Porsches and 0 R5 in the championship. So You didn't win 1 manufacturer more but lost 5. Do You believe that it's good that none of the rally-addicted manufacturers are interested in the championship? Why?

Establishing a performance balance for different types of cars can be hard, but it’s achievable if there’s a will to do it.

That's exactly what is missing in Spanish rules and why anything else except Porsches disappeared.

But as long as everyone knows the rules and regulations, they can choose the car they would like to use.

No, You can't chose when the rules are made that way that there is only one option if You want to win - Porsche.

If you love driving a 911, and they beat a R5, that is ok in my book! The sound and the downfall of a rear-engined car compared to a modern 4wd car, made for the pupose, makes for cool slides, and locked front wheels. The fans love it!

Except they rarely drive sideways. Those cars use traction control. They rarely drift in slow corners and they are slow in fast corners. The only spectacular thing about them is sound and look.

We are back to the discussion of private tuned cars vs manufacurer tuned cars.

I'm for privately tuned cars although preferably under FIA rules (which would need to rebuild current homologation system but that's something what manufacturers won't allow).

And we need many engineering firms that can make money from rally. We are in this case talking a national championship, and drivers that do this for the fun of it. Let them!! National ASN need to grow a pair, and support their customers, and not the manufacturers.

R-GT would be a perfect class for this, but tuners need to be allowed to put in a bigger restrictor, that gives them maybe 100 hp more than today!

The only way how to make R-GT cars something widespread is to allow them to win overall - I mean under FIA rules. In that moment they are interesting for manufacturers and those have the power to create proper rules. Privateers won't change anything in global. Let's be realistic, rallying is a marketing tool for manufacturers, why shall they allow some privateers to meddle into their business with cars from manufacturer whose playground is somewhere else?