IMO any radical change without being announced at least 2 years ahead logically can not bring any new manufacturers anyway and doing a change just for the sake of change isn't a strategy.
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FIA got scared dead by Hyundai. Just Ben Sulayem didn't have the guts to challenge them, so they let WRC rot and focus on F1's golden goose... They could have at least killed the hybrids and replace carbon parts with plastic to bring costs down, but no... Same old shit... For maybe 2 extra cars here or there... Disappointing... Would be funny if Hyundai still insists on jumping elsewhere, Toyota gets wooed by another F1 shot and M-Sport/Ford dilute resources into WEC/Dakar and F1...
but it would be just a two year solution. the manufacturers would not ramp up the costs, they would more likely run costumer programs like in tcr.
but anyway, manufacturers won the battle. two more years of the same stuff, that its not exaaactly awesome right now imo
so let me get this straight:
- wrc is in a pretty shitty moment with only 6 full-time entries, with msport not having money to hire drivers, with hyundai and toyota running 3rd cars for the same guys forever, audience dropping...
- then fia/wrc thought: "well this is bad, we need to change, even if the decisions are rough",
- everybody on the planet agreed with that.
- then after months of 'talking', meeting, fan surveys (!!), they even presented those weird concept.... they decided that nothing is going to change,
- then suddenly everybody thinks thats the right thing to do... and wrc will continue in the same shitty moment with only 6 full-time entries, with msport not having money to hire drivers, with hyundai and toyota running 3rd cars for the same guys forever, audience dropping.
...like... wtf? why this talk even started? if "this is the obvious thing to do" the whole time? haha this is madness