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Originally Posted by 1975DCS
After all those news, posts and threads about circuits being dropped, drivers, teams and manufactures dropping out I cannot help myself to chuckle about it.
All that bla bla about manufacturers, sure it's great that they like Rallycross and are sort of involved. But I for one don't want a manufacturers kind of sport like WRC. I prefer a sort of highly tuned cars, professional tunes clubman style like it has been for years.
Sure IMG make great live broadcasting, but what if you can't access that as a European fan? You get a rip off of 30-60 minutes and some limited stuff of the finals.
So no Ford, Audi or Peugeot involvement? I don't mind! No Ken Block, Tanner Foust or fancy drivers from other disciplines? I don't care! I do however feel it is a damn shame all those cars aren't available for others and if they are they can't be properly entered by privateers due to limitations.
Such a waste, especially that those who have been involved in "new" RX have pulled out. Worse of all some had no Rallycross interest of history before, they came, see and left.
And electric? Sure, eventually I would even consider, drive or even prefer a electric car myself. But I don't want a manufacturer to spoil the sport because the races are so short it suits them. Nor do I want generic cars with a custom body!
Maybe later, but for now electric will rule out the clubman even more...
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Well said
My take...
You cannot avoid the conversations in the paddock from the 90’s and 2000’s .... wouldn’t it be great if manufacturers were involved... I was a big advocate, but not in a clatter like we have had with VW Etc, I was always more the fan of local dealer support and national interest not mega budget input
Unlike some on here who were brought up on rallycross from the 80’s I enjoy the rallycross in WRX in the most part, the racing is good particularly when it’s damp or wet it’s just a shame the organisers don’t recognise this and provide a track which insists on compromise on setup which is why rallycross became popular because the compromise provided the opportunity to overtake not joker laps etc...
Electric .... call me old fashioned but flames, bangs, whooshes and loads of revs are the big reasons I loved rallycross...., I’ll take some convincing on electric