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Originally Posted by bonkers
We do have some tarmac stages Jeff but no full on tarmac stage rallies.
If you were going to have actual timed racing stages, whether on gravel or tarmac, any sanctioning body worthy of the title not to mention any insurer willing to cover your event, is going to require your cars to be properly safety prepared with welded in race cages and your drivers to be licensed with some proof of experience (beyond a folder full of speeding tickets).
To be competitive, you are going to want to modify what's under the hood for more power. At that point, the only things separating you from a gravel rally car are suspension set up and tires.
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I think you misunderstood what I was getting at. In no way did I mean an unprepared, stock car would be suitable for tarmac rally. I'm thinking typical almost-race-car types seen in the "deep end of the pool" at DE's, or even IRDC, SOVREN, or SCCA production class race cars. You would be surprised how many of these continue to be driven on the street occasionally (sometimes a great deal; one of our local R Gruppe members has driven his IRDC winning race car on our club drives for years), and remain pretty darn nice cars, in spite of their track use. One weekend of gravel road rallying would undo that whole "nice car" part of it. That's why most won't take these cars out to one. I believe they would go to the tarmac rallies, to run in the non-competitive classes.