Crystal ball predictions 2025

[EstWRC]

Now that the line-ups are almost all known and the testing for Monte has started, its time to do this fun prediction again.

5 predictions per person (please exercise some self-discipline in sticking to just 5)
Predictions need to be specific/measurable
Award for most of 5 predictions correct
Honour for the most extreme prediction that turns out to be correct

Deadline is 22th January, the last day to put predictions is the day before Monte starts.

[deephouse]

deephouse:

1. Evans wins the title.
2. Hankooks with lots of punctures
3. RallyTV getting even worse (bad live pictures, interruptions, data not syncing correctly)
4. Even better spectacle over pushing to the limit all the time (better point system, without hybrids they don't have to care of breaking it)
5. Hyundai don't field 4th car at all.

[Negaiss]

Negaiss:

1. Surprise unexpected Ford Puma Rally1 driver at one or some rallies - Bottas or Raikkonen
2. Sami Pajari destroys 3 Yaris Rally1 chassis;
3. Rovanpera wins 9 events;
4. Skoda announces WRC comeback from 2027;
5. Sebastian Loeb in Puma Rally1 in Kenya

[saco0o]

saco0o:

1. kalle champion with the most victories among drivers
2. solberg doing really well in one of his rally1 events
3. hankooks will end the year being praised
4. fourmaux will finish the year ahead of one of the othet two bigger hyundai stars
5. ERC will have a 3 way title fight in the end of the season

[maailmameister]

1. Tänak wins the World Championship
2. Fourmaux takes his first rally victory
3. Virves drives a Rally1 car at Rally Estonia
4. Hyundai wins the manufacturers' title
5. Sesks takes Ford's only podium

[Sal yet again]

Sal yet again

1 Rovanpera is Drivers champion
2 Sesks to crash out on each WRC outing
3 Paraguay sets the record for most cancelled stages due to spectator issues
4 Japan gets another big fine for a non competitive car on a stage
5 Hyundai pull out as an official entry at the end of the season

[rp]

rp

1. Kalle Rovanperä will take his 3rd WRC title
2. Toyota to win Manufacturer´s title
3. Sami Pajari will take his 1st WRC podium during the season
4. Oliver Solberg will drive at least a couple of WRC events with the Rally1 car
5. Hyundai Motorsport to withdraw at the end of the 2025 season. Private team in 2026.

[AndersX]

Interesting feature, will be cool to see:

1. Tanak champion, announces retirement direct after.
2. Kalle - swinging, i.e. win - dnf-win-dnf - cause - lack of focus due to many side projects.
3. Neuville - one more 2nd;
4. Toyota will take MWC
5. Hyundai will announce exit to priv team on 26, 100% out as of 2027; Neuville announces retirement after 2026
6. Sesks gets 1 podium
7. Fourmaux - max 3 podiums, no wins; frustrated, angry comments on stage ends.

[COD]

1. Rovanperä finally wins Rally Finland
2. M-sport uses 3 different drivers for 3rd car
3. Tänak retires after 2025
4. Toyota wins manu title
5. Pajari takes 1st podium

[WRCStan]

1. Rovanperä, Halttunen and Toyota Champions
2. Hyundai with Red Bull livery
3. Stars to have "troubles" in Saudi promoting a local into the top 10.
4. Tanak retires mid-2025
5. A Rally2 wins Monte.

[WRCStan]

5. Hyundai will announce exit to priv team on 26, 100% out as of 2027; Neuville announces retirement after 2026

One year at a time maybe?

[AndersX]

One year at a time maybe?

Thierry, you, really? 😁 I meant that TN would say in the end of '25 that '26 would be his last full time in WRC.

[Managarium]

1. Toyota driver will be a WRC champion
2. Solberg WRC2 champion
3. Sesks will be at least once on a podium
4. Fourmaux will score less podiums than in 2024
5. Tanak will score more points than Neuville

[TWRC]

1. Rovanpera & Halttunen overall champions
2. Toyota as Manu champion
3. Ogier will not win a rally in WRC for the first time since 2012
4. No new manufacturer signals intent to join for 2027
5. Citroën, Toyota and Skoda will win WRC2 rounds, Hyundai and Ford will miss out.

[focus206]

1 - Rovanpera drivers champion and Toyota manufacturer champion
2 - Sordo will drive one (or more) goodbye rally before retirement
3 - Solberg wins WRC2
4 - One between Neuville and Tanak will announce retirement
5 - In the points sum of the 6/7 rounds Sesks will drive, he will outscore Munster + McErlean combined points of those 6/7 rounds

[becher]

1. Team order drama/tensions at Toyota with Ogier (=Ogier miffed because a full time driver is chasing him down and the team doesn't intervene or because he is asked to not attack a team mate)
2. Rovanperä wins Finland.
3. Pajari will win a event but Fourmaux won't.
4. Rovanperä drivers champion.
5.Rossel rents a Puma for CER.

[EstWRC]

1. Fourmaux starts the season well but then fades away
2. Solberg impresses Toyota and gets promoted to Rally1 machine fully from half season onwards
3. Kalle still doesn’t win Finland
4. Tänak announces his retirement cause Hyundai leaves and Toyota doesn’t want him
5. Ogier doesn’t have any punctures with Hankook and praises them

[AE1WRC]

1. Msport get a podium in Saudi Arabia
2. Rovanpera will get the most stage wins this year and the next best will be at least 30 behind him.
3. Solberg dominating WRC2.
4. Takamato will have his most consistent season and getting 5 podiums during the year.
5. Turkkan will surprise everyone with his pure speed with Rally1 (according to Dirtfish, Turkkan is planning to have 2 rallies with Rally1 one being Sardinia).

[CeskyOndra]

Let's do "Crystal Ball weather edition"

1. Snow in Monte
2. Very cold and dry Sweden
3. Big storm on Kedong stage
4. Rainy Estonia
5. Rainy Sardegna

[B group]

1.Kalle drivers champion and TGR manufacturer champion
2.TGR drivers win 13 of 14 events 2025 season
3.Solberg WRC2 champion
4.Sesks is the only Ford driver to win a stage.
5.Pajari first rally podium

[denkimi]

1. Hyundai manufacturers champion
2. Kalle drivers champion
3. Fourmaux wins a rally
4. Neuville announces his retirement
5. Hyundai decides halfway the season they need a 4th car

[Humber]

Humber:

1- Toyota Manufacturer's Champion 5th time in a row.
2- K.R driver's champion, Tanak 2nd, Evans 3rd.
3- Gryazin/ Skoda beats Solberg for WRC2.
4- Lots of punctures for Hankook at hot rocky events. Drivers call for the return of tyre mousse.
5- Drivers look cooler and more relaxed at the end of stage interviews (without the in-cab heating effects of the hybrid unit)

[archie106]

1. Fourmaux gets a rally win
2. Hyundai Manufacturers champion
3. MSport score at least 3 podiums
4. Rovanpera finishes outside of the top 3 in the championship
5. At least 1 Rally1 driver retires at the end of the season

[WRC1]

1. hyundai manufacturer´s champion
2. kalle driver´s champion
3. toyota quits evans during the season, solberg takes his full time seat
4. fourmaux gets a win
5. mc erlean will be behind fastest rally2 in monte and sweden (at least)

[jcevc]

1. Toyota manu` champion
2. Evans driver`s champion
3. Fourmaux just one podium, without win
4. Solberg again without WRC2 championship
5. Official confirmation of new WRC manufacturer in 2027

[240RS]

1. Kalle Rovenpera wins the drivers championship with two rounds to spare.
2. Sami Pajari upsets the established order to score shock Rally Finland win.
3. Oliver Solberg dominates Rally2 to finally lay his hands on the championship.
4. M-Sport Ford struggles all season; failing to podium.
5. Saudi Arabia round won by Adrien Fourmaux.

[dupanton]

1 Rovanpera world champion
2 Hyundai world champion
3 Katsuta without a podium and out at the end of the season
4 Sesks will only be best Ford on 1 of his 6 outings
5 Ogier will say he prefers Pirelli at some point during the season

[eib1]

1. Hyundai manu champion
2. Rovanpera doesn´t win Rally Finland
3. Virves wins rally at WRC2
4. Sesks only M-Sport driver to get podium
5. Tänak announces retirement after 2025

[meh]

1. Sesks gets the best result from a rally for M-Sport for the season
2. Pajari gets his first podium
3. Fourmaux will not beat his season O/A position from last year (5th)
4. Toyota gets manus title
5. Rovanperä gets the driver's title

[ferrial]

1 Rovanperä wins the drivers championship
2 Toyota manufacturers champions
3 Last season for Tanak to do full season
4 No podiums for M-Sport
5 Virves gets to drive the first Rally1 WRC rally

[Corcaíoch]

1. Rovanpera & Toyota win the championships
2. Solberg wins WRC2, Gryazin second.
3. Rovanpera finally wins in Finland
4. Katsuta will have multiple podiums but not win a rally
5. Pajari gets his first podium

[spark13]

1. 4 way battle(Rovanpera, Tanak, Neuville, Evans) for the title up until last round. Rovanpera takes it.
2. J. Rossel takes wrc2 title.
3. Pajari takes a win.
4. McErlean crashes in more than a half of rallies he participated, but scores more points in the end of the season than Munster.
5. Evans retire at the end of the season.

["Username"]

Better late than never..

1. Tänak takes the title and retires
2. Hyundai title, if not, will pull out
3. Ogier 1 win
4. Fourmaux 2 podiums
5. Katsuta retires or gets the boot after 2025 from WRC

[flat_right]

1. Hyundai will win both titles
2. Fourmaux will not get his first win this year
3. Kalle still doesn't win in Finland
4. Pajari will win a rally
5. Ogier will have twice as many wins as Evans

[Kras]

1. Tanak WDC
2. Toyota manu champions
3. Katsuta 0 podiums
4. Sesks will have better average rally1 placement than Pajari
5. Evans wins atleast 2 rallies

[skarderud]

1 Tanak wdc
2 Toyota wtc, after Neuville bin it in last rally
3 Solberg wdc2
4 1 new manu comes in 2027 due to better rules, Hyundai leaves.
5 2 "private" teams reveals plans to join due to better rules.

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[Rallyper]

1 Kalle WDC
2 Lappi to join at least one WRC rally in Rally1 or Rally2 car
3 Toyota WTC
4 Oliver drives at least two rounds in Rally1 car
5 MSport hires new driver for at least one event

[Eli]

A bit late to the party I know but with 13 rounds still to go, here are the predictions:
1 Toyota retains manufacturers title while Rovanperä regains his title
2. Hyundai announce they leave the series towards the end of the year
3. Fourmaux takes his first ( & only win for this season) on Tarmac
4. Rally Australia returns for 2026 (instead of USA)
5. Ott & Seb retire at the end of the year