WRC mainclass from 2027

[SubaruNorway]

This week's Rally Scandinavia willl be excellent preview of 2027 WRC - massive competition on beautiful gravel roads - worth to watch as R2 is expected to be faster than 2027 model cars.

I'm skipping it this year, was always left wanting some more, it's just like a Norwegian event with a few more fast cars, YT views are not great either

[doubled1978]

I remember. I forget what happened with the supposed Lancia deal, but he obviously ended up with Ford.

[wyler]

I doubt that. WRC27 are Rally2 cars with extra steps. They won't suddenly get more powerful or audio-visually more exciting.

WRC27 might be good regs for Rally2, but for the top class its as if F1 would drive with F2 cars

I do remember the first test of the rally1, people were complaining about this and that (hybrid, weight, less aero, less damper, etc). time of the monte they were okish, time the next monte they were normal. now we are complaining about leaving them! : )

[Ferranis]

I do remember the first test of the rally1, people were complaining about this and that (hybrid, weight, less aero, less damper, etc). time of the monte they were okish, time the next monte they were normal. now we are complaining about leaving them! : )

A lot of complaining was valid though. Hybrid implementation was stupid, leading to them being too heavy among other things. Aero was valid, since they made the cars look much more boring (in my oppinion. Toyota was ok, Hyundai and Ford were not - let's also not talk about the hybrid inlets here, horrible). Damper was pretty inconsequencial.

The hybrid and weight problem got fixed and the Aero got also a bit better on the Hyundai and in general without the hybrid inlets

I personally would not miss the Rally1 that much if we would still have a 100 hybrid failures each rally. Imagine this with the 100 tire failures now