Saw one a while ago, fucking awesome one - Marcus Gronholm went in for shits and giggles with his full tarmac spec WRC weapon, against the 'locals', in their WRC cars.

He hadn't done any of the stages before so pretty much had his weapon of a car with more R&D, Data etc than anyone else, god it was close. I think he only just won it.

Locals most definitely made him shit his pants a bit.

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Should have bought an STI

Irish Tarmac ftw!

But WRC has been pretty cool to watch so far with more driver involvement(lot less boring, still a way to go though)

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65.3 short track (wet).

Getting better. Still somewhat retarded.

You're right.. I always thought they had a better record.. they only won four years running from 96 to 99

Stretching my memory but they ran GrpA cars up until the Evo7... 2002? was the first year they entered a WR car and that didn't last very long because it was shit.

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Correct. Evo 6 was GrpA, Evo 7 was first WRC.
Yes it was shite, Tommi's dominance ended with the Evo 7.
Mitsu ran WRC Lancers from 02 till 05.

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Probably... God the Evo8 WR Car was the worst.. terrible.. AND ugly!

I consider myself a true rally fan, I continued watching even when Loeb's dominance single handily destroyed the sport. I'm even a closet IRC fan. When Super2000 came along I thought the dawn of a revolution was on it's way. I mean this sport should never had medium sized cars like the focus and C4 at the forefront, that's what the touring cars are for. Rallying is about small nimble forest and back road racing, unconventional really like the sport always has been. I believe the new formula is just that. I hope the FIA enforce some kind of parity guidelines so that new marquess to the sport are regularly on the podium.

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