WRC: Subaru might no longer be "Driven By What's Inside"..
11-02-2004, 11:33 AM
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Well, you have to look at it from a business standpoint. More competitors and manufacturers will likely draw a larger fanbase, and increase advertising revenues. I just hope they don't take it to the extreme and ban turbos, boxer engines, and AWD!! I just don't see how that can be good for the sport. Banning exotic metals is one thing, but don't take away the very thing that people watch the sport in the first place for!!
11-04-2004, 09:46 PM
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Originally Posted by impreza7
Well, you have to look at it from a business standpoint. More competitors and manufacturers will likely draw a larger fanbase, and increase advertising revenues. I just hope they don't take it to the extreme and ban turbos, boxer engines, and AWD!! I just don't see how that can be good for the sport. Banning exotic metals is one thing, but don't take away the very thing that people watch the sport in the first place for!!
Well they used to have twin turbocharged V8s in F1. I wouldn't be surprised.
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11-13-2004, 10:02 PM
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There are a few classes of rally cars, but the fastest are the "open"/WRC, then there are 2wd, & other production based classes. But I guess that is not enough now. BTW last week Dave Despain said that both French car marques will drop out of WRC by the end of next year, so I am not sure how this will play out...
11-26-2004, 08:42 PM
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Originally Posted by dElKwOn
bring back those crazy as hell group b cars . those cars were absolute monsters . i miss seeing those wild machines.
11-28-2004, 11:59 AM
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The problem or at least a big part of it is that the homologation rules have not kept up with the times. Remember that these rules were changed to encourage manufacturers(two French ones that I can think of). Wherever one lives in the world there is no awd turbo 307 to be had. Same for the Citroen Xsara. And remember those Escort Cosworths? You could buy some sort of street car based Escort that had a turbo and awd. There is a focus turbo in europe but it is front wheel drive. As usual the FIA doesn't perform any maintenance on its race series rulebook until its too late and major revisions are needed that leave the most committed manufacturers in the cold(Subaru,Mitsu). I put Mitsu in there because one can purchase an Evo. With Peugeot and Citroen their race budget is just that, a race budget. There is no budget to produce a street going version of their rally car because they don't have to. Along with the fact that these are two similar enough cars that they can share parts! Campaigning four essentially identical race cars with all the privateers sharing your brand certainly makes a good showing on the results board. Make the manufacturers homologate for real. Not just body panels and displacement. This would I think, make the race budget relevant to the product line as opposed to a manufacturer saying "Hey we're champs now buy our stuff! disregard the fact that you can't buy the car we became champions with"
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