Quote Originally Posted by WRCStan View Post
This season, it's value alone is over a million euros to the Promoter, before talking of exposure deals.
Is that part of the problem?

A manufacturer sees a bill of €385815 just to register for the championship before design & development costs, entry fees and running costs and that frightens them off. 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.

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.