WRC mainclass from 2027

[wyler]

question: if a "tuner" has to use a "constructor" mechanical package, are they using toyota's wrc27? or can they use a rally2 package?

[Andre Oliveira]

looks like a porsche to some people around (also looking at the wall in the pictures...)

Pictures are of Porsche build that they sell: Porsche 992 Rally GT

[Kenneth]

question: if a "tuner" has to use a "constructor" mechanical package, are they using toyota's wrc27? or can they use a rally2 package?

FIA changed it and both tuner and manufacturer = constructor. So they just can develop it on their own.

[focus206]

Looks like a buggy to me! I'm a great fan of off road racing in Europe like the Tout Terrain championship in France and this feels awfully like this is the way the WRC is heading with this new formula. Ironically I'd prefer the Rally 2 approach but looks like I'm in the minority!

Just been thinking that Colin McRae saw the future back in the early 2000s with the McRae R4, guess the FIA must have remembered that car also..

I don't think you are in the minority among rally fans.
At least poor Colin planned to make some road version of the R4 to sell to the public...

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Interesting.

Will be nice to see this against the Toyota Celica WRCar (which yes, it's built and in testing)

The rumoured new Celica is a low-slung sports coupe. A WRC27 version with the new (taller than Rally1) spaceframe ? Are you sure you dont mean Corolla ?

[Kenneth]

Rally2 car costs around 250,000, while development was 1-2 million... WRC27 will "cost" 345,000 and development will be??? 20 million.

So Mr. deephouse can you explain how the Project Rally One can enter WRC when the developement cost is 20 milion?

[wyler]

So Mr. deephouse can you explain how the Project Rally One can enter WRC when the developement cost is 20 milion?

i'm sure their dev cost will be nowhere near toyota's...

[GigiGalliNo1]

The rumoured new Celica is a low-slung sports coupe. A WRC27 version with the new (taller than Rally1) spaceframe ? Are you sure you dont mean Corolla ?

Seen it with my eye balls.

[WRCStan]

Project Rally One, headed up by Yves Matton and Lionel Hansen, is the first new constructor to confirm its WRC 2027 entry

This is the most exciting and positive news I've heard from WRC world for a while. Best of luck to them.

[WRCStan]

Looks like a buggy to me!

Have you seen photos with bodywork?