Rally2 (ex-R5) News

**Franky** · 7th February 2020, 15:23

Originally Posted by RS

Really don't like this new 'Rally 2' name for R5 cars, sounds silly.

Glad I'm not the only one. Reading "Skoda Fabia Rally2 evo" in a post about Solberg testing felt odd already

**HKSjbg** · 7th February 2020, 15:31

Add to that the fact that there’s years and years of data, news stories, forum posts and god knows what else with reference to R5 cars the damage is already done and the FIA can’t un-do all of that and have just confused matters more 😅

**pantealex** · 9th February 2020, 11:55

I like Rally2

Very easy to understand that it´s 2nd fastest rally car.

(Just like Formula1 is fastest and bigger numbers are slower)

When I was young we had:
1,2 and 4
after that
N,A and B
after that
S1600,S2000 and WRC
and so on...

Sometimes names change and life goes on...

RS · 9th February 2020, 12:40

Originally Posted by pantealex

I like Rally2

Very easy to understand that it´s 2nd fastest rally car.

(Just like Formula1 is fastest and bigger numbers are slower)

When I was young we had:
1,2 and 4
after that
N,A and B
after that
S1600,S2000 and WRC
and so on...

Sometimes names change and life goes on...

But World Rally Cars aren’t going to be called ‘Rally 1s’ are they?

I would even have preferred if they had called the R5 cars WRC2s, but then you have the mess with the WRC2/3 class in the world championship..

**pantealex** · 9th February 2020, 14:23

Originally Posted by RS

But World Rally Cars aren’t going to be called ‘Rally 1s’ are they?

I would even have preferred if they had called the R5 cars WRC2s, but then you have the mess with the WRC2/3 class in the world championship..

Yes, WRC is Rally1 by regulations.

actually WRC as car name is quite stupid because championship is called WRC. So people are doing "local" events with WRC

RS · 9th February 2020, 16:26

Originally Posted by pantealex

Yes, WRC is Rally1 by regulations.

actually WRC as car name is quite stupid because championship is called WRC. So people are doing "local" events with WRC

Hmm yeah but it sounds cool ��

Would have been simpler if WRCs had been called R1, R5=R2 etc but then you have the problem of inverting the current class structure.

**Gordini** · 15th February 2020, 15:11

Rename thread

RS · 15th February 2020, 21:36

The Proton R5 set some respectable times on the Cambrian Rally compared for example to Yates who is driving in WRC2 this year: https://www.ewrc-results.com/results...2020/?s=263625