WRC main class in 2025

[WRCStan]

If the FIA & WRC Promoter were making an entertaining product that they could sell at a suitable profit then they could lower the registration fees and grow the WRC. While they are offering poor quality content and are happy to live off registration and entry fees WRC will never grow.

Sir/madam, this is business. Read my signature.

[WRCStan]

The difference of €118349 registration for a manufacturer team in Rally2 compared with €11835 for a private team probably explains why there are no works teams from Skoda or Citroen.

Do ya think?! Why should they be getting silverware and palmares for free when they are Rally1 targets?

[RS]

Sir/madam, this is business. Read my signature.

Yes it is, but sometimes you have to speculate to accumalate.

[WRCStan]

Yes it is, but sometimes you have to speculate to accumalate.

You also have to accumulate to accumulate. Selling video rights and subscriptions isn't the only earner.

[denkimi]

The problem with privateer-oriented series is that they bring an order of magnitude lesser money to the series hence why if WRC decides to ignore the manufacturers and go full privateer it will disappear as a major motorsport. With the manufacturer's money gone the all live production will be gone, the major global sponsors will be gone, after that the state-funding will be largely gone and we will end with another ERC because nobody will go outside Europe anyway.

For me the WRC can survive only with the manufacturers. Still the series shall allow private tuners to homologate their cars. Now when we have the spaceframes there is not even a need to pretend that such car represents any manufacturer. They can run under their own banner like in Dakar.

F1 proves that you are wrong on this.

[RS]

You also have to accumulate to accumulate. Selling video rights and subscriptions isn't the only earner.

What revenue streams are there that wouldn't be higher with more eyeballs?

[becher]

F1 proves that you are wrong on this.

There are no privateers in F1. Just very well funded constructors.

[NaBUru38]

The Monte Carlo Rally has 8 entries in the Rally1 class. The 2024 Dakar Rally has 70 entries in the T1 Ultimate class. And the latter aren't exactly cheap. In fact, there's 21 Toyota Hilux.

[fiscorpun]

EIGHT CARS to do the greatest rally event of the planet? What a joke...
The promoter also runs the World Rallycross championship. They had two ridiculous years with only 7 electric cars or so, had a huge fire explosion with Loeb's team and said NOTHING about it. Made the teams run second class spec cars to finish the championship in HONG KONG or whatever... but for 2024 they are bringing ICE cars back because people stopped watching. Lets see if they can reverse the damage. I JUST HOPE they change stuff in WRC for 2025 cuz having EIGHT cars doint Monte Carlo is just to confirm that Rally1 must die, honestly....

[Kenneth]

The 2024 Dakar Rally has 70 entries in the T1 Ultimate class.

Because everyone can build their own car on space frame chassis and can use road engine. There is only one fully in-house works team (Audi), few "outsourced" works team (Toyota, Ford, Mini and Chinese brands) and also Prodrive, funded by Saudis. The rest are private entries, some of them even build the cars themselves, like Martin Prokop.