The 2003 WRC season was one of the best motorsport seasons I ever saw. I remember it fondly and knew it was a special one at the time.
Check out the driver line-up:
PEUGEOT:
2 x World Champion Marcus Gronholm
1 x World Champion Richard Burns
Multiple Rally Winner and popular character Gilles Panizzi
Rally Winner Harri Rovanpera
FORD:
Markko Martin
Francois Duval
Mikko Hirvonen - All very promising talents
SUBARU:
4 x World Champion Tommi Makinen
Future 1 X World Champion, 3 x runner-up, and hugely popular character Petter Solberg
HYUNDAI:
Rally Winner Armin Schwarz
Promising driver Freddy Loix
SKODA:
1 x World Champion Didier Auriol
Promising talent Toni Gardemeister
CITROEN:
1 x World Champion and hugely popular character Colin Mcrae
Future 9 x World Champion Sebastien Loeb
2 x World Champion Carlos Sainz
Amongst the 16 full time works drivers, there were no less than 14 drivers who won or who would go on to be rally winners, while the World Champion count was 7! That is quite astonishing.
Which leads me to the solution for the WRC. Why not just change the rules to how they were around 2001-2003? It seems very simple that if the WRC moved back in that direction, it would regain it's soul and become great again.
Bring back 3 scoring drivers please, and be done with the abomination of superrally, which I loathe, forever.
Absolutely awful gimmicks proposed for 2015 have finished the sport off for me for good now I think, and I sadly rarely post here now. A slide which began with Max Mosley's new rules for 2004.