Quote Originally Posted by WRCStan View Post
The people doing the sport will decide it's fate not those who only comment. If SxSs and Extreme E buggies come to the fore than so be it, you can play tiddlywinks instead and yearn for yester year.
So be it? You just quietly accept everything? The 2024 point system was disliked by almost every fan (you and very very few others are the "almost"), it was changed for 2025 to an improved version. Obviously the input of drivers and teams played a part in it, I imagine.
But no, I will not just be quiet and accept what it's decided. I'd be ashamed if I did that for my country, and I won't do that for rallying. I can't practically do anything about it, but I value criticism more than I value quiet acceptance. It's not like I'll post in WRC 2027 rallies threads how much I dislike these concepts to spoil it for others, but I'll definitely criticize them when they're on topic.

Quote Originally Posted by WRCStan View Post
But every time you mention buggies as a possibility it's a reminder that you're either not understanding the new regs or are hyperventilating on them because you don't like the actual change or evolution. I shudder at the thought of a world without change. Even in rally, 4wd was not found in production cars but they made it happen, turbos weren't widely found but they put them in, sequential gearboxes.... You'd have been there saying "hell no!"
I don't see much difference between these new made up cars and Extreme E protos in these terms. If current Rally1 are 1% as I said, both Extreme E and these new cars are 0%. No related production models, not even loosely. And maybe one day even manufacturers will also decide to enter Extreme E-like protos, or Dacia Sandrider-like stuff. You'll probably like that, but many won't...
Those changes you mentioned are peanuts to me, in comparison to 2027. I didn't say anything negative when the 2011 regs came up, nor the 2017 regs, nor the hybrid and not even when the spaceframes came up, even if I dislike them.