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We're just three stages and 35 competitive kilometres in the Rally of Poland ... and Kubica has already rolled it. He would probably be out if it weren't for the efforts of local fans, who righted his Fiesta.
 
Sigh Ogier won again. Hope Hyundai get their ass togheter, WRC have really become Sebastien Rally Championship
 
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Sigh Ogier won again. Hope Hyundai get their ass togheter, WRC have really become Sebastien Rally Championship
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When hasn't it been? :lol:
 
The Toyota GT86 is going to make its WRC debut as the 00 car in Germany. The Yaris WRC will go through asphalt testing next month.
 
WRC needs more Top Drivers badly, Ogier just like Loeb has quite a bit of Skill/Talent advanatage over the rest of the field.
 
You're right. Let me just go and get some. I'm sure there are some phenomenally-talented drivers out there doing nothing right now.
 
mustafur
WRC needs more Top Drivers badly, Ogier just like Loeb has quite a bit of Skill/Talent advanatage over the rest of the field.
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There are top drivers, and there are top cars ...

VW is way ahead of everybody, the polo is just the best car in wrc by far for the moment.

Mikkelsen and Latvala are behind because the polo was developped by Ogier and nobody else.
 
Accro2008
There are top drivers, and there are top cars ...

VW is way ahead of everybody, the polo is just the best car in wrc by far for the moment.

Mikkelsen and Latvala are behind because the polo was developped by Ogier and nobody else.
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This year might be the case but Last year the Citroen was perfectly capable as proven by Loeb.

and just highlights the massive difference in Driver ability.

also WRC isn't like F1 there is a very limited.amount of change you can do to the car and the driver has a massive part in how well the car will actually perform.
 
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You're right. Let me just go and get some. I'm sure there are some phenomenally-talented drivers out there doing nothing right now.
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There likely isn't all im saying is the Facts, WRC needs more drivers through the ranks that are at a Loeb/ Ogier level for the sake of competition.
 
mustafur
This year might be the case but Last year the Citroen was perfectly capable as proven by Loeb.

and just highlights the massive difference in Driver ability.

also WRC isn't like F1 there is a very limited.amount of change you can do to the car and the driver has a massive part in how well the car will actually perform.
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Maybe last year but even Loeb had trouble in France.

Give a guy like Neuville or Ostberg a good car and then things would change.

Even on the stages the polo doesn't compare to the other wrc, it's like watching cars from different category ...

And I agree F1 and WRC aren't the same thing (and I'm really happy about that :lol:) but the cars still have a huge impact, the driver can't change a slug in a tiger.
 
Accro2008
Maybe last year but even Loeb had trouble in France.

Give a guy like Neuville or Ostberg a good car and then things would change.

Even on the stages the polo doesn't compare to the other wrc, it's like watching cars from different category ...

And I agree F1 and WRC aren't the same thing (and I'm really happy about that :lol:) but the cars still have a huge impact, the driver can't change a slug in a tiger.
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Yeah but for a driver that didnt touch a rally car for months its understandable, still not convinced last years Citroen wasn't able to win atleast 1 title if Loeb had a full season.

It certianly would of been close with ogier.
 
mustafur
Yeah but for a driver that didnt touch a rally car for months its understandable, still not convinced last years Citroen wasn't able to win atleast 1 title if Loeb had a full season.

It certianly would of been close with ogier.
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Unfortunaly, we will never know.
 
Interesting that it's going to be a competitor to the Yaris WRC/whatever platform the project will use.
 
And I read earlier about a Porsche being entered one a WRC event soon, a privateer 997 eligible to score WRC points...
 
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And I read earlier about a Porsche being entered one a WRC event soon, a privateer 997 eligible to score WRC points...
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GT cars are eligible to enter under Group R regulations in a category known as RGT. However, there is no formal structure or support to the category, nor is there a World Championship for RGT entries, mostly because the FIA only expect the occasional entry rather than regular ones.
 
The Tommi Makkinen-built GT86 WRC has made its debut in Finland. From the sounds of things, it's less of a dedicated WRC project, and more of a one-off special build for the new Toyota president, who has no real experience of rallying, but who wants to understand it. And from the sounds of things, he's mightily impressed.
 
The dominance Volkswagon are having in the sport is very similar to the Mercedes dominance in F1...
 
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Thierry Neuville @ Finland :bowdown:
 
Chances of Latvala winning the title is out of question now with 3 of the 5 rallies left taking place on tarmac. If he did won in Sardinia his chance of winning the title would be alot higher.
 
prisonermonkeys
GT cars are eligible to enter under Group R regulations in a category known as RGT. However, there is no formal structure or support to the category, nor is there a World Championship for RGT entries, mostly because the FIA only expect the occasional entry rather than regular ones.
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Hang on a minute, so your saying that any GT race car (in this case more likely a GT4 car) can race in the WRC under RGT? How come nobody really does this?! O_O
 
Yeah if I owned a £1000000 Aston Martin gt3 then I don't think I'd wanna wreck it at 80mph in some inch deep puddle in the middle of a Welsh military range and have to sit there for the rest of the day at 2°C, when I could be racing it around a world famous Italian park at 25°C at 200mph.

Okay maybe I would but the average joe wouldn't :)
 
Having read this: http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/115311 and this especially

WRC Promoter's Oliver Ciesla... "People want an unpredictable outcome that keeps the result open as long as possible and that's what we need to try to solve: how can we arrange that, despite a long-distance run over 300km and three days?" ....

I am flabbergasted by the chance to possibly boost rallying being thrown aside in favour of this gimmick style nonsense such as a final stage winner takes all.

Last I checked, rallying was about going from A to B to C as fast as possible in whatever class machine you had. Turning off all your fans by destroying what rallying is supposed to be about is... terrible.
 
Ugh... Hopefully the WRC as it is now will die in a few years and a rally championship (called the WRC or not) which is actually well run will take its place. I used to follow it, then it got stupid and I started following the IRC instead, now I just don't follow rallying.
 
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