[WRC] News & rumours (part III)

[Mk2 RS2000]

welcome to last year.

Back to the future mate.

[paddocknews]

@MNRally
In this week's MN: full details of a new plan for mid-stage tyre change 'pit stops' to spice up #WRC events. What do you think of the idea?
https://twitter.com/MNRally/status/479180696154820608

[Mirek]

Seriously the circus gets beyond stupidity...

[AndyRAC]

Surely a late April's fool joke......???

You know a sport is in trouble when they keep comng up with ridiculous suggestions......

How about reverting to when the sport was successful? It might just work...

[Priorat]

Itinerary for Catalunya 2014 unveiled:
http://www.rallyracc.com/2014/catalan/itinerario.html

Back to 2012 style with only minor change in last km's of long stage Priorat / Escaladei (for the good IMHO).

Same stages repeated year after year after year...

[makinen_fan]

And you thought that it could not get any more stupid, here it goes:
http://www.autosport.com/news/report...medium=twitter

They implemented the stupid remote service rule where you have mechanics but no spares for the car and now they thinking of introducing this... This is something that makes sense for cost cutting !! FIA and RBMH are morons in my view (sorry mods for the language)

[Eli]

http://www.wrc.com/en/wrc/news/june/...1--12-12-.html
funny it's comming from Jost Capito...

[Allyc85]

In a way he does have a point, as changes can cost a hell of a lot! The change from 2.0t to 1.6t and smaller cars hardly made a huge difference in the end.

As the for the mid stage tyre changes they can just F right off! What are these people smoking? How the hell is it going to help the sport?

[Mirek]

By the way has somebody followed 24 Hours of Le Mans? I found very interesting that they managed to create very free rules under which all the three main contenders were able to lead the race for some time despite having very different power unit (Audi - 4.0 V6 turbo diesel with low-level recuperation into flywheel KERS; Porsche - 2.0 V4 turbo petrol with high-level recuperation into batteries; Toyota - 3.7 V6 atmospheric petrol with high-level recuperation into supercapacitors). In the end the race was decided by mechanical failures.

[AndyRAC]

By the way has somebody followed 24 Hours of Le Mans? I found very interesting that they managed to create very free rules under which all the three main contenders were able to lead the race for some time despite having very different power unit (Audi - 4.0 V6 turbo diesel with low-level recuperation into flywheel KERS; Porsche - 2.0 V4 turbo petrol with high-level recuperation into batteries; Toyota - 3.7 V6 atmospheric petrol with high-level recuperation into supercapacitors). In the end the race was decided by mechanical failures.

Yes, I followed it - very clever and free rules and 3 different solutions to the question set by the ACO/ FiA. And next year Nissan will join with another solution. There may be the odd problem with BoP, but in the main it works.
I hate to say it in a WRC forum - but Sportscars is way ahead of the WRC - and the TV coverage isn't a lot better. Yet it's successful. They don't think of silly rules to make it exciting - it's still as it's always been. Why can't the WRC take notice.