Junior WRC 2022

[EstWRC]

[Danny0405]

After Virves’ title, who will we have in Junior WRC next year?
In the current drivers:
- Virves will go WRC-2 for sure
- Pajari is also as good as sure in WRC-2
- Joona has won WRC-3 Open and sounds to want to go to Rally2 according to interviews
- Armstrong closes his budget very late this season, will he be able to do it again after a second defeat in a row?
- Creighton did a Rally2 drive in Spain but it was a prize drive.
- No new about McRae Kimathi ... but he loses the Africa Junior title this year to Hamza Anwar.

Among the new drivers:
- Laurent Pellier will be there as ERC4 Junior champion (and will have full 5-round program according to promoter instead of 4-round prize program)
- Max McRae, nephew of Colin, is interested
- Toni Herranen is also interested

Let’s hope more than the 6 regulars of this year but quite skeptical is the prize driver is still so low.
Maybe it would be a good learning for the 3 young Japanese hired by Toyota this year; well for sure, it’s complicated for Toyota to register their drivers in a M-Sport category but facing drivers such as Pellier and making WRC rounds is a good challenge.

[AnttiL]

Roope Korhonen made a deal with Rautio about doing WRC3 rounds, but not sure if that means JWRC or not

[becher]

I thought this was Armstrongs last year because he is to old.

[Andre Oliveira]

At least in 2024 we will have the 4 FIA Rally Start finalists.

[Hartusvuori]

Roope Korhonen made a deal with Rautio about doing WRC3 rounds, but not sure if that means JWRC or not

On that news article, only WRC3 was mentioned. That would give freedom to the choice of events, too. Let's see how it turns out.

[pantealex]

On that news article, only WRC3 was mentioned. That would give freedom to the choice of events, too. Let's see how it turns out.

and for WRC3 you can use your own car and setup