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The World Rally Championship is working on breakthrough gaming technology which would allow rally fans to compete for their own world title on real-time events from the comfort of their own homes.

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Duncanson adds: “When I explained this plan to [FIA president] Max Mosley, he was very taken with the idea. And he has offered me the opportunity, when we get this up and running, to award a trophy to the winner of the on-line World Rally Championship at the same time that we are handing out the actual silverware to the world champions at the FIA’s awards evening in Monte Carlo."

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"We’ve been talking to some of the major computer game companies and the technology is there to enable us to do it now. It’s just a question of getting what are fairly hefty development costs underwritten by one of these guys and then we’re away.”

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They mention that their existing mapping technology (from VirtualSpectator™) will allow for the accurate reproductions of the real stages necessary for this to work.

This sounds like an awesome idea to me, and as someone with a top-500 stage time on DiRT, I will be first in line to try it when it becomes available... if it comes to the US, anyway