Quote Originally Posted by djip View Post
Am I missing something here ? I read "manufacturers have to commit to 14 rounds to get the kit homologation". It does not mean you have to run a 2 drivers team for 14 rounds. You could as well field a 2 cars team in every rounds with rotating drivers. Toksport is not far from doing this for the past few seasons... For others, you could just drop the name of your team to any other local team to make it look like you entered. Back to the 70's, an importer/local team deputizing for the works team...

And then once the car is homologated, would anything prevent any other user/customer to fielding a (kit) car under his name for a single odd event ? This would be similar to the early WRC (golden) days. Homologation from a factory, then anyone could run its own Impreza WRC or Escort WRC under its own team, for one-off events. With a cheap and easy to bolt aero kit, owner could event bolt/unbolt the kit to switch from local/ERC to WRC events. If true, this would be brilliant.

Am I overly optimistic and reading the press release with rose tinted glasses ? Because if this is not the case, as was said above, we're back with 2-3 teams as today, so the notion of increased competition is daft.
But what will happen if Rally2 car with this "Kit" will be slower than regular Rally2 car?