WRC main class in 2025

[Eli]

Nice. Something new

Now all we need is Skoda/Opel/Someone please to announce they'll be joining the championship as soon as 2025!

[RS]

Now all we need is Skoda/Opel/Someone please to announce they'll be joining the championship as soon as 2025!

If Skoda come back to the top level it won't be as soon as that. Testing of the new Rally2 car started well over one year before it's debut and that was a category they had experience of.

[Eli]

https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/answe...esidents-call/

Something something, had to scrap rally2 idea as top tier, long story short, rally 1 until 2027.

[wyler]

https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/answe...esidents-call/

Something something, had to scrap rally2 idea as top tier, long story short, rally 1 until 2027.

manus said that already months ago...

[macebig]

Do Rally 1s really have until 2027? Think about that for a minute. Nobody is joining and it's doubtful all 3 manus keep going till then. Guess FIA is just waiting for someone to force their hand into scrapping Rally 1s.

[Mirek]

https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/answe...esidents-call/

Something something, had to scrap rally2 idea as top tier, long story short, rally 1 until 2027.

“I could see,” governing body FIA president MBS told DirtFish, “I could see something had to be done. Of course I could. And it had to be done quickly. I told David [Richards] I wanted immediate action. I told him to go and select a team for a working group and come back to me with names in two hours. He did that.

“Then we said we wanted answers in two weeks, we got them in days. This is how quickly we can move things. This is what we have to do."

I do translate that as "We had years but we didn't bother to work out anything and now we try to play heroes coming to save the show."

[wyler]

Do Rally 1s really have until 2027? Think about that for a minute. Nobody is joining and it's doubtful all 3 manus keep going till then. Guess FIA is just waiting for someone to force their hand into scrapping Rally 1s.

Maybe Fia wants it, but actually is the opposite. manufactures firmly refused to make rally2 top class, Hyundai and Ford decided to stay only with this reg.

[Kenneth]

The current regs are something that all 3 current manus agreed to. FIA makes the mistake of trying to keep the current manus instead of opening doors to new ones. It's clear that Hyundai and Toyota are happy with the lack of competition.

[rp]

FIA´s mistake that they ask what current manufacturers want. Now it is clear that Rally1 will continue until 2027, but FIA has to change the rules radically for the season 2028.

[trykmann]

Dirtfish has used a bit misleading headline for this. Kalle actually approves the idea about more powerful Rally2 cars.

The Rally2 on steroids would still be enjoyable to watch.

https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/rovan...rally2-switch/

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