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julian assflange posted:Congratulations Toyota 2017 WRC champions Now come on, surely Hyundai's 11th all new car in about 3 years will finally be any good.
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I liked that Hyundai were forced into running a five-door for some weird reason resulting in them accidentally making the first acceptable looking WRC car in about a decade.
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Looks official, VW out of WRC. http://www.racer.com/international/world-rally/item/136007-volkswagen-to-pull-out-of-wrc
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Nov 1, 2016 17:03
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The WRC is bad.
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Nov 1, 2016 17:04
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Time to make Rally America the new top tier worldwide rally series.
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Nov 1, 2016 17:06
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Bentai posted:Time to make Rally America the new top tier worldwide rally series. It's in just as much trouble and there's currently a breakaway series because the competitors got fed up with it.
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Nov 1, 2016 17:12
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ERC is doing ok from what I've heard.
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Nov 1, 2016 17:32
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Bring back group b
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iospace posted:Bring back group b The 2017 cars are supposedly gonna be like Group B's with more downforce (which is bad)
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Nov 1, 2016 17:47
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iospace posted:Bring back group b
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George Zimmer posted:The 2017 cars are supposedly gonna be like Group B's with more downforce (which is bad) Isn't it like just 30 more horsepower? And they're still locked into the stupid borderline homologated drivetrain.
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Nov 1, 2016 17:48
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Im going to be crucified for this but they should ban AWD in WRC and force manufacturers to bring production models to the table. If you tell GM they just need to make a run of 1,000 Chevy whatever-the-gently caress-rebadged-daewoo with a hot engine bolted in and they can be running in WRC I can't see them turning that down.
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1500quidporsche posted:Isn't it like just 30 more horsepower? And they're still locked into the stupid borderline homologated drivetrain. I'm not sure to be honest. But I like your no AWD rule.
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Nov 1, 2016 17:59
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The future of rallying is rallycross. And Dakar, because what else can we watch in January?
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rallycross is never as good as you expect it to be. i'd rather watch rallying, assuming it's actually good, which WRC isn't.
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Nov 1, 2016 18:03
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Turbo AWD cars are allowed if you make a thousand turbo AWD models. Per year.
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Nov 1, 2016 18:08
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Alain Post posted:Turbo AWD cars are allowed if you make a thousand turbo AWD models. Per year. Nobody wants to make them though, Xtrac has supplied most the championship winning teams I think. It really is a farce, there's no road relevance when Citroen just goes to Xtrac and buys an AWD drivetrain to stick in their bubble car shells. If you want homologation back I'm convinced you have to ban AWD, nobody is going to buy into the concept unless you do that. Instead of these stupid bespoke bubble car platforms you just get them to rummage through the parts bin, sell a thousand or so cars and you're ready to race. Everybody will save money and you'd get more manufacturers willing to jump into the sport. F1DriverQuidenBerg fucked around with this message at 18:15 on Nov 1, 2016 |
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Pretty certain if you banned AWD, each and every last one of remaining WRC fans would outright boycott any event and sponsor that participates in them out of sheer disgust.
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Triple A posted:Pretty certain if you banned AWD, each and every last one of remaining WRC fans would outright boycott any event and sponsor that participates in them out of sheer disgust. and i'm sure WRC would mourn the loss of those eight fans
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Nov 1, 2016 18:39
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Bring back F2 kit cars. 
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Nov 1, 2016 18:43
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rally is very cool but the FIA is very bad and can ruin even the most naturally cool things with incredible ease
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Citroen made so little of their rally success. A C4 with white wheels and some decals. That's it. Shame on them.
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jammyozzy posted:Bring back F2 kit cars. WRC-3 already exists
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Jehde posted:Rally summary: WRC is boring, watch ERC instead.
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Meanwhile in series' that aren't slowly dying, Ford made a new Mustang GT4 and it looks cool. GT4 as a class looks super healthy right now. 
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Nov 2, 2016 02:38
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What's GT4 again?
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gret posted:What's GT4 again? GT3 with less downforce, no ABS, and less powerful engines. They are also ostensibly cheaper as well. They fit about with the top class of the Continental Tire Sports Car Championship.
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gret posted:What's GT4 again? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GT4_(Stuttgart) hope this helps, please fax me IMMEDIATELY if u have any questions or concerns do not call as it riles up my pets
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no bones about it posted:GT3 with less downforce, no ABS, and less powerful engines. They are also ostensibly cheaper as well. They fit about with the top class of the Continental Tire Sports Car Championship. Also runs as GTS in Pirelli World Challenge, and the GT4 European Series that SRO runs as a support/feeder series for Blancpain GT.
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no bones about it posted:GT3 with less downforce, no ABS, and less powerful engines. They are also ostensibly cheaper as well. They fit about with the top class of the Continental Tire Sports Car Championship. Next year I think the top class of Conti will be GT4 cars. IMSA is changing like every class it seems in all series. Conti getting GT4 and TCR cars, Lites getting LMP3, and the new P2/DPi cars.
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njsykora posted:Also runs as GTS in Pirelli World Challenge, and the GT4 European Series that SRO runs as a support/feeder series for Blancpain GT. And British GT is a multiclass GT3/GT4 series . GT4 is pretty popular.
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More juicy IMSA DPi rumors: Penske mulling a return to IMSA in an Oreca-Honda DPi https://www.racer.com/imsa/item/136056-imsa-penske-closing-in-on-sportscar-return
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Nov 2, 2016 22:39
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I guess now we know why Montoya was willing to sign on to an Indy-only deal with Penske.
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As GT3s become spaceships, GT4 becomes the heir apparent.
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harperdc posted:As GT3s become spaceships, GT4 becomes the heir apparent. and thus, the ever present circle of sportscar life begins anew "GT4 is just too expensive and there are only a handful at lemans, GT5 will save us all" - 2020 "GTDubstep is just too costoso and there are only a puņado at lemans, GTManga will save us all" - 2040 Cygni fucked around with this message at 00:49 on Nov 3, 2016 |
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Cygni posted:"GTManga will save us all" - 2040 Our savior. 
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Its the perfect place to park your 'slightly too old for Indycar but still have years of competitive driving in them' drivers
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Proud Christian Mom posted:Its the perfect place to park your 'slightly too old for Indycar but still have years of competitive driving in them' drivers Also your 'rich enough to buy a seat but not so egotistical to demand the coolest car' drivers. I think there's a woman in the European GT4 Series who's a former Playboy model and the car is sponsored by Playboy.
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2017 ligier testing with the new Gibson engine. Sounds pretty neat (the other 2 cars are P3) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRbcvSXCpJQ
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So Lada are leaving WTCC at the end of the season, meaning next year will be Honda and Volvo left in the championship. Can we finally put a bullet in this series now?
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