a MINI coming to the WRC? Apparently...
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Exactly... Since PWRC is based on production cars, the cars that some AWD are most popular right? If you can't convert drivetrains, FWD/RWD are disadvantaged, hence why you don't see many of those cars.
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They're down to a 1.6l now??
I fully understand them trying to make the sport cheaper to attract more teams, but at some point they're going to also make it boring enough to push away a lot of potential enthusiasts. I say bring back Group B!
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I fully understand them trying to make the sport cheaper to attract more teams, but at some point they're going to also make it boring enough to push away a lot of potential enthusiasts. I say bring back Group B!
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honestly the engine size isnt nearly as big of a limit to power as the 34mm turbo inlet restrictor in use now, the 1.6 motors can easily make WAY more power than the current 2.0s depending on what they decide to do about the restrictors now.
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In England you could walk into a ford dealership and order an RS200..would have been a good investment.
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Call me crazy - I'm just not that interested in race cars that look kinda like street cars but share nothing else with them.
One of the reasons I find NASCAR boring (well that and the ovals)
Bring back the Lancia Delta S4 dammit!
Gotta love a sub-2000 lbs car with turbos and a supercharger!
seriously have you ever seen an angrier little car
One of the reasons I find NASCAR boring (well that and the ovals)
Bring back the Lancia Delta S4 dammit!
Built as a road going version of Lancia's Group B contender, the Delta S4 Stradale possessed all the radical traits of the race car it was made from. This included the interested dual-stage induction which included both a supercharger and turbocharger. Although detuned for the sanity, this system catapulted the Group B version to 600 bhp and zero to sixty in less than two seconds.
seriously have you ever seen an angrier little car
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