The point of revival is that everyone has the same chance to be competitive. You could be a millionaire but you wouldn't be able to spend loads on your car giving you the advantage. It's quite possible to be a front runner in a quite basic car. I'd be happy with the regs if i didn't want the car for road rallying aswell. You can spend £20,000 on a road rally car (and they do) and there is no recognition, prize money, nothing. Revival is aiming big, with 8 or so large events next year and the MSA pushing it hard as the next big thing. I know what they are upto, they have opened up the road rally classes and you can run some hellish machinery nowadays. This will lead to more problems with the public and police (it's bad enough already), the MSA know this and will use it as an excuse to ban it. I'll give road rallying another 2-3 years and it'll be gone.
For those that don't know much about the event types i'll explain. Road rallying = using public roads/lanes at night, meeting oncoming traffic is probable, the spectators are alomost always problematic (driving like prats, chasing rally traffic, parking by peoples homes and shouting, handbraking, wheel spinning etc), local residents complain to the organising club and the police. Around here the police have actually been turning up at the start of events and telling all competitors that if they use the handbrake on a hairpin they'll be knicked. The police have been out in force as of late, mostly to control the spectators (read boy racing chavs who think they are all colin mcrae and lots of them) We get residnets parking tractors, placing straw bales or simply standing in the middle of the road on a corner. Bricks through windscreens, chains and wire tied across the road. Road Rallying is a PR nightmare, there's no two ways about it.
Revival rallying = Driving on stages only, i.e. farm tracks, parks (e.g.weston park), old airfields, forest roads, fields etc mostly in the daytime, in quieter cars. All public roads that link these stages will be non competitive, just like a WRC event. It's cheap, you only need basic mods on your car and you could be up there fighting for the lead by just being a decent driver. I love road rallying but it doesn't take a genius to see which direction our sport is heading in the next few years.
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