[WRC] News & rumours (part IV) 2016

[Eli]

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/123211 Rally mexico will drop the 50 miles stage in 2017

[RAS007]

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/123211 Rally mexico will drop the 50 miles stage in 2017

WRC promoter Oliver Ciesla: "We do not see the added value; endurance is sufficiently covered in the WRC as it is."

Oh really Oliver? I'd love to hear the thinking behind that statement. Every event is a fucking sprint now.

[N.O.T]

Having 1 really big stage in an event does not do any good, if it early then big gaps might develop and we might have too many retirements which might lead into a boring rally after it, and when you have it late then everyone is on cruise mode like in mexico.

In my opinion the WRC should have stages between 15 and 35 kms plus just 2 superspecials preferably at the start to act as shows for the uninitiated. If they want to add endurance they should try and see where and how they could have a safari style rally with 3 days of huge stages.

[EstWRC]

100% with NOT on this one...except for that i think there should be longer stages than 35km, 50km maximum for me but definitely no stages under 15km's.

Last year we had those longer stages on Corsica rally but that was on tarmac and it was boring as hell for me and painful to follow with those huge gaps between stages.

[Toyoda]

So Im wondering what people think of a car match of Evans and Citreon, with my limited knowledge and based purely on observation I would have thought Evans driving style matches Citroen. Smooth and straight. Anyone have any thoughts? An all British drivers team with a French manufacturer next year lol

[EstWRC]

m-sport is his only chance i think. I think Matton would like to have Neuville and if Neuville doesnt get his act together in Hyundai then he will leave i think. His deal comes to and end this year and Matton publicly last year said that it would be good for Neuville to join Citroen.

[EstWRC]

m-sport to get more power

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[Lundefaret]

The AP4 regulations inNew Zealand seems a very good way of moving forward in regrds to nationally homologated 4WD rally cars with R5-ish performance.

Its basically a spec car wich you can mount to every brand of similar sized small car. Very interesting and clever!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vv0LpoDcQcI

http://www.motorsport.org.nz/sites/d...ally%20Car.pdf

[AndyRAC]

WRC promoter Oliver Ciesla: "We do not see the added value; endurance is sufficiently covered in the WRC as it is."

Oh really Oliver? I'd love to hear the thinking behind that statement. Every event is a fucking sprint now.

That bloke is clueless about rallying. Does he actually know what Endurance is? Funnily enough, interest in rallying is falling - yet guess what form of Motorsport is growing in popularity? Yes, endurance racing; more and more 12/24 hour races are on the calendar.
Malcolm Wilson was interviewed last month on the DailySportscar website, and this comment says it all.."Endurance racing is like rallying used to be..."

They'll never get it right, because they don't understand the sport. Every event the same just isn't working; 2 days followed by 40/50km on a Sunday which is almost pointless - why not finish the event on the Saturday night? If you must run on the Sunday - then make it worthwhile.

The Mark James interview on Absolute Rally before Christmas was telling; RedBull are merely repeating the same mistakes that ISC/ NorthOne made. Why will anything be different?

[sollitt]

The AP4 regulations inNew Zealand seems a very good way of moving forward in regrds to nationally homologated 4WD rally cars with R5-ish performance.

Its basically a spec car wich you can mount to every brand of similar sized small car. Very interesting and clever!

The AP4 regulations are a NZ (and to a lesser degree Australian) initiative to produce regional homologated cars for use in FIA sanctioned events. They are eligible for entry into the domestic NZ championship, as is any car. They are not, at this time, the regulated formula for that championship.