If you look through the Finnish events on ewrc-results, Printsport Oy have been one of the top teams over there for years, probably even better than Makinen's team have done. I'm sure if they can get a deal to run the 2017 Polo they'll do a good job of it.
Well, the Rally Sweden entry list gets published today, so I thought Adapta/Jipocar might take the opportunity to launch.
They've also upped the production values of the magazine show they produce. A lot of the graphics and music have been given a complete overhaul, and - I may be mistaken on this point, as I have only seen the Monte Carlo preview - there appears to be more of an effort to get cameras out into the field, rather than the studio-based stuff they have done a lot of in recent years. The only thing I didn't like was the route overview; they tried to show all of the day's stages on-screen at once, and there was practically no detail in them. I always liked the close-ups because you could see the elevation changes.
With Toyota back in WRC, it would be great to see either a GT86 or SF-R in RGT. The GT86s that run in the Japanese rally championship look cool as 👍Excited for the season to begin.
That Fiat 124 makes me hope that RGT will grow, something great about seeing a 2 door coupe rally car.
Tommi Mäkinen made one to show Japan what his team was capable of doing.
I'm surprised it's still going, to be totally honest. It's been a bit of a white elephant these past few years. But maybe the 124 is exactly what R-GT needs; the original vision of GT cars like the Porsche 911 failed to take hold.
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GT4 is production spec though, RGT cars are not really designed for rally just able to do it.
Possible, yes, but unappealing. They're too big, too heavy, and the drivetrain isn't suited to rallying (and hasn't been for thirty years). Plus, other cars within Group R - particularly R3 and R5 - are readily accessible, comparatively cheap, and better suited to competition. The appeal of R-GT is limited to diehard fans of the class. I don't think that the FIA ever intended it to become a full-blown class of competition - rather a niche class to appeal to a segment of competitors - but all the same, it hasn't really achieved what it set out to do.
