2024 ERC News & Rumours

[Jarek Z]

You can vote for your favourite livery here:
https://www.fiaerc.com/a/news/w28674...r-poll-is-open

[PLuto]

You can vote for your favourite livery here:
https://www.fiaerc.com/a/news/w28674...r-poll-is-open

It is strange that only one of them is ERC regular...

[Jarek Z]

Mads Ostberg is back on the staes after his serious crash in Italy. But he didn't win:
https://www.ewrc-results.com/results...a-gorica-2024/

[saco0o]

croatia on the 25' calendar?
good move? i still feel france is deserving a round because they have a good rally and off road scene over there. not sure they have a promoter tho

[Fast Eddie WRC]

croatia on the 25' calendar ? good move?

A very popular event, liked by both fans and drivers now added to the ERC, sounds good to me.

[wyler]

croatia on the 25' calendar?
good move? i still feel france is deserving a round because they have a good rally and off road scene over there. not sure they have a promoter tho

it's just a parking, 'cause the 25 wrc calendar is already closed. croatia will be back in wrc for 26-27 as 3 years deal looks like to be sealed.

[Jarek Z]

A short interview with European rally star, Patrick Snijers, before Lower Silesian Rally of Legends one month ago. Snijers says he prefers old rally cars than the current machines full of the latest technology:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajn0XnTile8

Final results:
https://www.ewrc-results.com/final/8...d-legend-2024/

[saco0o]

interesting opinion, mentioning current rally2 cars are glued to the grownd with not so much engine power, while old cars (and the Porsche GT he runs in belgium) slide more around and he thinks its more fun to drive.
visually i tend to agree, "sliding cars" is more fun to watch, but im not the biiiiggest fan of these historic cars cuz they 'look slow'. some of them are incredibly beautiful tho, cannot deny that!

[Fast Eddie WRC]

And many historic cars sound better and as for the Porsche R-GT... just incredible.

[Mirek]

interesting opinion, mentioning current rally2 cars are glued to the grownd with not so much engine power, while old cars (and the Porsche GT he runs in belgium) slide more around and he thinks its more fun to drive.
visually i tend to agree, "sliding cars" is more fun to watch, but im not the biiiiggest fan of these historic cars cuz they 'look slow'. some of them are incredibly beautiful tho, cannot deny that!

The opinion of Snijers is natural because he was raised in the old times. No offence but it's very common that people prefer the era when they were the best. It's sort of the grass was greener when we were young.

Rally2 cars have similar power to the first WRC. They are not at all underpowered.

The development of suspension and tyres is natural. It can't be stopped. Today the cars work better because the world didn't stop 40 years ago. It would be pretty bad if it wasn't that way. The RWD cars are fun but they are slow as hell today and being the fastest is the point of the sport.