It's another step towards rallying being a sort of horse racing of the future. The cars become to be ridiculously obsolete in many major areas compared to the recent research and development level. In fact that has been the case for many years already (with a partial exception in the latest generation of the cars).
I am not saying it's wrong way in our times but it's nothing similar to what the sport used to be in the past (let's say till the end of gr.B era at least but partially also in the first WRC decade).
Mirek, tell me if the interest in world rallying went down, changing from Group B to Group a, in 1987?
(I was there, I know the answer...)
"Reis vas pät pat kaar vas kut"
Tommi Mäkinen, back in the years...
Car is often worse than Ford.. just 5x more money invested :D
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