When requested by DirtFish if the proposed laws offered the identical threat, Latvala agreed, suggesting efficiency of the proposed new automobiles would have to be improved relative to the specification detailed in final week’s define.
“They’re getting fairly shut to one another,” he mentioned of the brand new top-level automobile relative to the present Rally2 components. “I feel that is the goal: the FIA needs to deliver them nearer collectively to assist the younger drivers get into the game. However for positive there must be a distinction.
“We have to be cautious that we nonetheless maintain the distinction between the automobiles. If they’re too shut, why purchase the Rally1 if the Rally2 is that fast already? So then it received’t deliver any privateers for the Rally1 automobiles. So there must be a distinction.
“For me, Rally1 must be not less than one second per kilometer quicker than Rally2. Now [with current Rally1 cars] I feel, relying on the state of affairs we’re in, it’s round two seconds per kilometer; generally it may be two and a half on Tarmac I feel. However one second is the goal.”
A vote on the proposed laws takes place tomorrow, Wednesday December 11, on the last FIA World Motor Sport Council assembly of 2024 in Kigali, Rwanda.
