Originally Posted by Erki
The thing is, there are many good and interesting rallies around, but a 30-rally calendar would be far too big. Another meaningful championship would be needed to accommodate those rallies. And makes/teams and to a less extent, drivers too.
I like that in sportscars, there is American Le Mans Series, (European) Le Mans Series, FIA GT, and Japanese LM Challenge(albeit overshadowed by Super GT). I know many people long for a big World Sportscar Championship but I don't. (Sure, I also didn't follow WSC when it was alive and kicking ;) )
I like that this way there would be more good high profile rallies. ;)
And it's also that WRC/IRC/rallying world has to do something differently from F1 to succeed. F1 and rallying are different, what's good for F1 might not be for rallying and vice versa.