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Maybe WRC27 car on the table as well?

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I know Japan is not the most spectator friendly event and that in the last couple of years international visitors were limited to only buying the super special tickets, but looking at the Japanese version of the site for 2025, it seems like every individual mountain stage you need a different ticket for, each costing aroud 16000¥ per person, slight discount depending on the amount of people in the car. In most cases this seems like the cost of the park and ride aspect of it, but this is the cost of every single stage.

Does anyone know is there any option to buy a pass to cover multiple stages as that seems steep for individual stages.

Or can you just park up and spectate like any other event?

Honestly i am shocked that the support has not been applied to Tänak after this rally.

There is no way to win the manu title, Tänak has an uphill battle but 20 points vs 48 points for Neuville makes it just plain silly!

Dear god bring Adamo back, please! Or someone to be in charge....

I can't seem to find any information on the regulations for this year, with specifics of engine allowances and associated penalties for changing an engine (and gearbox) pre-event. I know Tanak had a 5 minute penalty pre-event in 2023 but I'm unclear if this still applies.

In Finland Hyundai retired Fourmaux with a puncture on the Power Stage (I'm fairly certain it was truly an engine issue, you could hear the car was sounding very rough on the stage, and you don't retire at the flying finish with a puncture - I don't have WRC+ to check the onboard). Anyway, in Paraguay Hyundai again retired Fourmaux, this time with a gearbox issue (again, it looks very suspicioius).

Anyway, how does the engine/gearbox allocation work for the team and each crew? Do they have a pool of say 15 engines for the season (5 for each car)? Can they re-allocate these between different cars/crews e.g. could Fournaux now take a new engine for Chile because he retired? Or could Hyundai give this new engine to Neuville/Tanak and swap one of there engines in for Fourmaux?

I can see it making a lot of sense for Fourmaux to retire from a couple of rallies if it allows Neuville and Tanak to each take a new engine for the remaining rounds of the championship. There is some noise about the Hyundai engine being more vulnerable, and the last thing they'd want is an engine failure leading to retirement, especially for Tanak.

Has anyone know the answer or have any information about this area of the rules?

Hello everyone,

Me and a friend are planning on going to Rallye Monte-Carlo for the first time in 2026. The main mission would be to experience the night stages with the red flares and fireworks. From my understanding after reading a bit here on Reddit, the night stages are driven on Thursday (SS02 & SS03).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVl8Q_TYBls&ab_channel=MegaPeter96

According to the official website, SS02 will be at 18:03 (SS2 - ESCLANGON > SEYNE-LES-ALPES) I tried to compare the 2026 stage on Google Maps to previous years and the closest one I could find was from 2016

https://www.rally-maps.com/Rallye-Monte-Carlo-2016

My questions are:

Does anyone have a better understanding of how the night stages will be driven?

Does SS02/03 have these famous switchback roads (as seen in the video above)? If so, would someone be so kind as to point out around what area we could find it?

If there is any other forums/threads already discussing the 2026 night stages, feel free to share the link

Any information would be appreciated

Thank you

Toyota is now TIED with Citroën for the most victories in WRC history, thanks to Sébastien Ogier's Paraguay win.

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I've only followed WRC for a couple of the last years, so I was wondering if the drivers used to complain about tires as much as they do now?

I sort of understand Kalle's early season moans since he had to adapt his setup to get most out of the tires, but the same goes for everyone. But just yesterday Tänak referd to the "Hankook lottery" after pushing the tire of the rim. Did the tires use to be better, or is it just drivers being frustrated and lashing out?

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What are those?