[WRC] News & rumours (part III)

[anstis]

Historically rallying it's more linked with close to production cars than with prototypes like you suggest. With few exceptions, some Gr.4 machines and the Gr. B era, almost every rally car used in WRC were based in large production models. For many fans the last Gr. A generation still represents the best compromise in rally cars technical layout.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the only significant difference between Group A rules and WRC rules (at least initially) the number of cars a manufacturer had to produce in order to be elegible to comptete? I know what you mean though, those Group A cars were choice, but it maybe reflected the technology of the time rather than the rules?

I fully agree that we need to get back to the sports nature, but that nature was mainly damaged by mixing up each rally individuality when the 9 to 5 schedule and the clover leaf format were imposed (sorry, I’m repeating myself), so probably it would make sense to apply a more diversified and challenging calendar rather than being permanently questioning rally cars technical definition

Yep, fully agree with this point. Completly! Can find it hard to get excited about most of the rallies because they almost all run to exactly the same format, in one small corner of the country. Maybe a lot of organisers have their hands tied by only being allowed 2 days for a 2 pass reece (amoung many of other factors too no doubt.)