Quote Originally Posted by macebig View Post
WRC needs to open back the doors to privateer firms. Prodrive has the capability to produce a WRC level car. Help them do it. Oreca can too. Holzer created a Corsa R5. Melvyn Evans did the Proton and the Mitsubishi Mirage. That's 5-6 cars that can definitely work on WRC level with reasonable budget and minimum manufacturer expenses. Even Richards says in the video with Howard Davies posted here that R1s are going nowhere and R2s are the best solution for now. Ben Sulayem should probably stop fiddling around with Liberty and F1 teams and focus on fixing WRC.
I agree that the system of homologation is a one of the features which needs to be changed. WRC is the only major motorsport which doesn't allow privately built machines in the top class. Obviously it doesn't work nowadays.