Re:The Car That Changed Rally Racing Forever
by exar0815 on Tuesday March 31, 2015 @04:07AM
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The article makes me really sad, but describes the best time in Rally sports. Group B cars made the rallye an event which had as much popularity as the formula 1. It was a time when Racing was 50% raw power and 50% talent, and it is no that it's major racing series, say Group B rally, Group C touring cars or the formula one gave birth to legends like Rohrl, Bellof or Senna. This is an attractivity that is completely lost in modern racing, really, with its small, fuel saving, ecologically correct "cars". Hell, it's racing, not a children's playground. Thank God there's LMP...
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Re:The Car That Changed Rally Racing Forever
by rodgerd on Tuesday March 31, 2015 @04:16AM
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> This is an attractivity that is completely lost in modern racing, really, with its small, fuel saving, ecologically correct "cars". Thank God there's LMP...
LMP? You mean the formula where the major constraint is the fuel characteristics of the engine?
Re:The Car That Changed Rally Racing Forever
by ericcumbee on Tuesday March 31, 2015 @01:07PM
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Are you referring to the Equivalence of Energy and Equivalence of Technology regulations?
If so that is a much more sane than regulating performance on the amount of oxygen the engine can consume. It's also much more relevant to production cars as well.
To me Balance of Performance is a dirty word, but I am ok with having each technology balanced so each car has roughly the same amount of energy available to it.