WRC mainclass from 2027

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Of course M-Sport will build a car, but if its a 'Puma', will Ford support it with ICE power when the road car will be EV only ? It might be time to go it alone or combine with another Manufacturer.

As for Gazoo Racing, will they want to make another new car when their Yaris Rally2 is the newest?

[saco0o]

btw, the new cars will use R5 engines. where current R5s get their engine? from the production base car and then they tune the engines for racing? what new engines the current Polos (privateers) are using since vw doesnt produce them anymore? can they use other brand engines? like a polo but with a i20 R5 engine? no idea how that stuff work. I presume current polos have to eventually change engines after being used for so many years

[WRCStan]

These points make great reasons to pull engines away from mass-production link, which I understand to be only the block anyway. Pointless to carry this regulation on into an era where no engine will be legally allowed to be mass-produced. Remove that and there's another value-add cost saving.

[WRCStan]

What do you all understand tuner to mean from the FIA publications? I was wondering whilst the forum was down, are they meaning it to be bodywork only, as in there'll be a handful of the usual suspects producing a rolling chassis with frame, and a 'tuner' produces their own body panels to stick onto it? E.g. M-Sport could build a rolling chassis, TunerX will stick body panels on it for direct entry or customer racing or whatever.

Or does a 'tuner' get to produce a whole car?

I wish they'd get some clarity published.

[saco0o]

good point. am I a "turner" if I buy a msport tube, a mecachrome engine, a xtrac gearbox and a dallara designed body pannel/aerokit design? is this the general idea?
LoL im so curious man

[WRCStan]

Everything we've heard recently has been about the bodywork frame and the reference volumes. That took up all the WMSC chat and required passing after several months of deliberation. Fantastic! But what about the rest of it?