Rally 3 class

[Fast Eddie WRC]

https://dirtfish.com/rally/renault-r...unch-timeline/

[Sulland]

Did not check linkedin, and there it shows he is Motorsport manager Renault group, Iberia.
So hopefully he knows.

They should try for 1 jan, so buyers could get a car from the start of the season.

So who is next in line? Toyota have given signals they will go Rally2 before Rally3, so are there others that will get in before Toyota?
Stellantis, Skoda or Proton maybe?

[wyler]

Did not check linkedin, and there it shows he is Motorsport manager Renault group, Iberia.
So hopefully he knows.

They should try for 1 jan, so buyers could get a car from the start of the season.

So who is next in line? Toyota have given signals they will go Rally2 before Rally3, so are there others that will get in before Toyota?
Stellantis, Skoda or Proton maybe?

opposite, Toyota said will go with rally3 first waiting for mild hybrid decision for rally2

[Sulland]

“To be ready as soon as possible is a big challenge,” Benoît Nogier, Renault Sport’s customer racing director, told DirtFish.
“We are discovering a bit this new category. It will be the first time for Renault to have a four-wheel-drive car. We are working hard and we should have the first test in a few weeks.”

So, they will start testing soon. Hopefully will we get some films here, from a french "spy" !

Latvala said first that they would go 3 then 2. But I feel I remember that he swapped to getting rally2 finished first, but I might have had a bad dream !
So if they go Rally3 first, will you guess they homologate before or after Renault?

But if Ford will be alone for 1 year+, they might sell 100 Rally3 before anyone else enter the market.

[wyler]

“To be ready as soon as possible is a big challenge,” Benoît Nogier, Renault Sport’s customer racing director, told DirtFish.
“We are discovering a bit this new category. It will be the first time for Renault to have a four-wheel-drive car. We are working hard and we should have the first test in a few weeks.”

So, they will start testing soon. Hopefully will we get some films here, from a french "spy" !

Latvala said first that they would go 3 then 2. But I feel I remember that he swapped to getting rally2 finished first, but I might have had a bad dream !
So if they go Rally3 first, will you guess they homologate before or after Renault?

But if Ford will be alone for 1 year+, they might sell 100 Rally3 before anyone else enter the market.

not earlier than mid 23 for toyota.

[Sulland]

When was the JWRC wintertest in Norway taking place?
This week or next week?

[Jarek Z]

Ford Fiesta Rally3 for Hubert Laskowski. He is only 16 years old, but already has experience with Peugeot 208 R2 and Peugeot 208 Rally4. Because he is so young he will probably only drive in Baltic countries, where it is allowed to compete in rallying at such age.

Photo:
https://cdn-1.motorsport.com/images/...al-kusnie.webp

Source:
https://pl.motorsport.com/rajdy/news...ally3/7878182/

... and the debut rally was not bad at all! Laskowski was 14th overall in last weekend's Rally Sarma in Latvia. He was best among all (2) Rally3 cars, nearly 1 minute quicker than Dmitry Feofanov. Not bad for a 16-year old kid.
The overall winner was Teemu Asunma from Finland.

Final results:
https://www.ewrc-results.com/results...js-sarma-2022/

Photos:
http://janisasaris.com/portfolio/ral...atvija-gulbene

Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7OiCp_jJuY

[Sulland]

Three manufacturers were confirmed from beginning, other were thinking about it...

We know the 3 confirmed, who else were thinking about entering Rally3?
Are they still thinking?

[wyler]

We know the 3 confirmed, who else were thinking about entering Rally3?
Are they still thinking?

opel the most quoted

[AnttiL]

On the first day of Rally Sweden, the Rally3 cars were around 3 s/km slower than fastest Rally1 car.