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[Mirek]

As I’ve mentioned, I do believe Gt’s should be penalized in same way but not undermined in order to become useless. That was what happened with FIA and RFEA current rules.

The whole restriction thing came in place for safety reasons. If we consider 350 Hp 4x4 unsafe why shall we consider 450 Hp RWD with engine behind rear axle to be safer?

Your question about R5’s restrictions doesn’t make sense. They’re the second rally category after WRC so it’d be stupid to let them have a larger restrictor than WRC’s. Besides, they’ve become the benchmark for national series and in most countries Gt’s or RRC’s were clearly penalized to allow R5 to shine.

It does make perfect sense. OK, we can ask the same question for WRC. Why does FIA limit them so much? Because there are some safety concers. And if approx. 300 Hp 4x4 is seen as maximum possible for safety reasons on regional/national level then there is no way how to justify to allow unrestricted GTs. Sorry for that but either we throw all this safety measures away and go totally unrestricted way for all cars or we have to follow the same logic. The physics is same for both classes after all.

Honestly I didn’t know Pech’s 911 was unrestricted and it’s a strange choice for a competitive guy like him to get a car unfit for the Czech stages, as You say. Probably that was the reason why local ASN didn’t bother to adopt FIA GT rules.

It's not totally unrestricted. There is a very strange formula set by our ASN that the car must not overcome 400 Hp but it doesn't have a restrictor per se. I have no idea how it can be controlled that the car doesn't have over 400 Hp without any form of restrictor. It's not technically possible. Anyway no physical restrictor helps also the torque curve, not only peak power.

What is important is that our ASN originally adopted R-GT rules but the team of Pech through lobbying managed to get this change in the rules.

And why did he choose this car? I don't think it was him personally who chose it. Anyway they bought the car to run FIA GT cup not Czech championship. The plans changed because there is nobody competing in FIA competition with GTs anymore.