[Erik]

Why not run a class system like they do in BTRDA rallies?

N for standard cars (box stock or using 1 motor and tyre option)

B for anything that fits within the safety and build rules for rallying (anything goes pretty much within reason...)

Interesting suggestion to exclude Porsches - a Porsche won the East Africa Safari late last year; I guarantee a 6R4 wouldn't even complete that event... Why exclude cars that have a huge rallying heritage? The German championship was won a couple of years back by a GT3.

I'm confused by this attitude to GT cars in rallying; they're out there, they add spectacle and excitement to real rallies (making big holes in the scenery on occasions it must be said) so why is scale rallying getting all precious about them? If someone is daft enough to rally an Aston or Lambo (in Holland) in real life then why can't they be used in scale rallying?

 

[Erik]

R-GT is a class but it's been single car entries on almost all of the 16 international rallies that accepted them, of which all but two were Supercup Porsches with a bit of beefing-up that took part in tarmac rallies only. No gravel rallies have been attempted.

WRC Rally Finland 2014 is the most obvious GT3 attempt at a gravel rally, I don't see how a car is only a rally car if it does gravel rallies though...

Car and driver won the German Rally Championship (same events and roads as those shown) the following year. There's a GT3 ready for the Spanish gravel series this year (testing here in Sweet Lamb)

. Belgium has a lovely selection of GT3s - 3 did a rally sprint at the weekend and did very passable impressions of submarines https://scontent-lht6-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/28617180_10214008983636656_2868969501980243455_o.jpg?oh=8311c4446d760118527cebd570698523&oe=5B42DDEE There were 4 on the Spa Rally last year

In real rallying the GT3s have to comply with tyre width restrictions (generally round about 9" wide on a max of an 18" rim) so why shouldn't slot cars? Making them run the same size tyre front and rear is also an option and a realistic choice when rallying. Ground clearance should also be higher than for racing. Slicks are outlawed so ban them for GTs. There's plenty of rule adaptations that can help slot cars rallying mimic real rallying.

People are actively trying to get more GTs rallying and slot car rallying is actively trying to stop them