Quote Originally Posted by Mirek View Post
You clearly missed the point.
Nope. I’ve responded to a direct comment mentioning RGT as a lower class with no interest to manus and use Skoda example once they got involved in rally, including in the WRC, throught lower classes, long before producing state of the art rally cars; actually, just like most manus historically did, including Alpine.

I imagine this will go into an endless (and possibily boring) ping-pong debate for which I won’t have much time today, so I’ll try to be clear giving my view on RGT.

GT brands didn’t quit rallysport for elitist reasons; they were forced to leave after Gr.B ban, once their cars didn’t cope with Gr.A (or WRC, S2000, R5) rules. Besides, WRC manus weren’t later eager, probably having the 2L Kit-car example in mind, to allow part time GT entries in the series.

Nevertheless, some ASN’s let private drivers and teams to run low tuned GT cars in national series, for the joy of local fans. Surprisingly, or not, this few GT outings become notorious and the videos of modern 911’s rallying got viral, raising the interest of more drivers and fans in other countries. At same point the low tuned national GT cars turned into competitive rally machines and start wining overall national rallys and even championships, which probably wasn’t very appreciated by WRC or S2000 brands.

Soon the FIA started to follow the matter and restrictors were imposed to the private GT cars, making them clearly less competitive. At the same time, the FIA launch RGT class for international use, but its limiting rules immediately make clear it wouldn’t allow GT brands to make especially competitive rally cars.

Anyway, thanks to the passion of private drivers and teams and even a few brands, GT’s are still runing in special stages and making rally fans happy, at least until the FIA decides to ban them again.