[quote author=STI Brian link=topic=2765.msg26048#msg26048 date=1182971531]
Just found this on the FIA website from their press release today, looks like the end of rallying as we know it, Group N to become the main feature by 2012, much like how the UK Championship has gone
WORLD RALLY CHAMPIONSHIP
From 2009, there will be 12 events in the FIA World Rally Championship. A detailed regulation around this decision will be examined by the FIA World Rally Championship Commission and presented to the WMSC in October.
From 2012, it was agreed in principle that world rally cars will be four-wheel drive and turbo-charged, based on mass-produced Group N and S2000 specification cars. Cost reducing measures will also be introduced.
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this has been on the cards for a couple of years now, its there way of getting more factory teams in, In Ireland they were going to give the same points for winning group N as the WRC for winning the rally under one championship. but this was fought against by a few big names, after all they had just invested 10's of thousands and more in new cars and sponsors, Group N is the way they are going to go in the future, Full blown WRC cars are going to go the way Group B's did, on the scrap heap.. and only out once in a blue moon
it will be a sad day when that happens.