British & Irish Rally calendars 2023

[Steve Boyd]

Look at the entry history for UK events. We got here with R5+ cars because without the larger restrictors there wouldn't have been any R5 cars at all. They were allowed under UK national rules and still are. How would you re-write the MSUK technical regulations to outlaw them without banning a lot of other cars? You write a rule that says R5/Rally2 cars have to run to their FIA homologation and I turn up to an event with a Fabia, RHD, 4WD and Rally2 engine with oversized restrictor. I say it's a Fabia built to MSUK technical rules not a Rally2 car (it can't be Rally2, it's RHD) how do you write a regulation that bans that car without outlawing all other self-developed cars?

Don't forget that Rally2/R5 cars run in a different class from R5+ cars.

Anyway, if the new MSUK running order proposals become the rules for next year there might not be any forest rallies left.