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Everything is about money. Without government money, there are no events on this level. It is not only rally, but also other sports...
There were events before governments started getting involved.
By now it's just an auction and the highest bidders get an event. The FIA gets to charge such ridiculous amounts of money because some governments are desperate to get a rally. If all governments stopped pumping money into it, we would still have a comparable championship but the people in charge of the FIA wouldn't get as rich.
We don't need government money to have a rally, only to fill the pockets of greedy FIA people.
but is there any current round of wrc/erc that is not government money paying the fee?
some of rallies have a title sponsor, like vodafone and bauhaus. how is the split between government/private company?
Sorry to deter the discussion back to the original topic but didn't they say they'd know the calendar by June, and then later said July?