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All rally cars are required to be road legal, registered, and insured because they drive on the streets with regular traffic between stages.

Correct

That’s Global Rallycross, not World Rallycross

This year all the races were livestreamed on the Ford Performance youtube and facebook (and the episodes are still there if you want to go back and watch. Next year they’ll probably be on the official WorldRX youtube channel

He’s absolutely ready for WRC2, but no way would I call him ready for a full season in the WRC. He’s shown incredible talent for his age, but in his first outing in WRC2 he was handily outpaced by Tidemand, Suninen, Veiby, Camilli, etc. And the competition at the top level is magnitudes higher. Just look at Robert…

Way too soon to put Kalle full time in a WRC car. He hasn’t even done a full season of WRC2 yet. Or hell, even a full season of Juniors

Colin Clark went back to his kitchen table to discuss the details (with some added speculation)

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We didn’t talk, but I walked by when you had the hood open and saw the stickers in Japanese

In addition to what RedFox said, that one was a Japanese market Integrale, so it had some variations from the Euro-spec cars

They’re not tube frames wrapped to look like production cars. They’re all built on from-the-factory body shells. Good example here if you look at the chassis nearest. The silver is as it came from the factory, the darker bits are add-ons.

I agree

The new spec cars are even more than that. Mads Østberg is selling his 2017 rally car, with nine rallies on it for $682,000.

To be fair, the video is from the Eifel Rallye Festival, which is more a show than an actual rally. Half the drivers are there more to have their unique/historic cars be seen than actually compete. (Also some rally drivers just aren’t fast)

It’s not confirmed yet. It’ll either be M-Sport or retirement, but Ogier hasn’t said which yet. That clip of Malcolm Wilson saying “Sebastien Ogier will be driving for us next year” is from 2016

More that you don’t need to know your speed when racing, you do need to know your RPM

This explains why Ogier decided not to announce his 2018 plans until after the rally

And the accent isn’t fake