Crystal ball predictions 2025

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Originally Posted by 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

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1 correct
2. Correct
3. Corect
4. Correct
5. Correct

5/5

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Originally Posted by 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

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1. Correct
2. Fortunately Wrong although the option still exists for ‘27
3. Wrong
4. Unfortunately wrong
5. Half right

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Originally Posted by 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

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1. wroooooong
2. correct
3. correctISH? I mean anything is better than pirelli... but drivers cant also complain nowadays
4. wrooong
5. correct

2.5/5? haha

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Originally Posted by COD

2. Correct

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Sorry mate, I don't make the rules but M-Sport had 5 guests, and at no point was a third car in the manufacturers.

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Originally Posted by Eli

1. Correct

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Rovenpera?

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Originally Posted by WRCStan

Rovenpera?

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Crap, half correct.
1/5 at the end, almost as bad as Hyundai’s season.

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Originally Posted by 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

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I've been wrong on all 5.

Not one prediction for Ogier WDC, the simplest of things to think.

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Originally Posted by 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.

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2/5

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Originally Posted by 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

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1. Wrong
2. Correct
3. Considering it now, happy to be wrong.
4. Wrong
5. Correct

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Originally Posted by 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.

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1. Correct, all for manufacturers
2. Incorrect
3. Correct in WRC2
4. Correct
5. Correct in WRC2

4/5

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Originally Posted by WRCStan

1. Correct, all for manufacturers
2. Incorrect
3. Correct in WRC2
4. Correct
5. Correct in WRC2

4/5

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Sorry but how is 4th correct? He drove all the rallies.

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Originally Posted by 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

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1. Half right
2. Half right again
3. Correct
4. Technically correct but to be honest I had more than two in mind with "multiple"
5. Correct

Roll on 2026!

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Originally Posted by 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

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1) Wrong
2) Wrong
3) Correct
4) Half correct? ;)
5) Correct

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Originally Posted by 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

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1. wrong
2. wrong
3. correct
4. close but wrong
5. correct

2/5 hope to do better next year

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Originally Posted by WRCStan

1. Correct, all for manufacturers
2. Incorrect
3. Correct in WRC2
4. Correct
5. Correct in WRC2

4/5

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all wrong i would say

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Originally Posted by 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.

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1.wrong
2.wrong
3.wrong
4.wrong
5.wrong

0/5

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Originally Posted by 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.

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1. Nope
2. Yes
3. Yes
4. Yes
5. Yes

You can rate if that was true.

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Originally Posted by 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

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1. wrong, but a close call in Saudi
2. correct, Rally Japan
3. correct, 7th this time
4. correct (too easy prediction...)
5. wrong

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Originally Posted by 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.

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1. no
2. yes!
3. not even close
4. sadly no
5. no haha, this was more hope than actual expectation.

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Originally Posted by WRCStan

Sorry mate, I don't make the rules but M-Sport had 5 guests, and at no point was a third car in the manufacturers.

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Ok, don’t know why they didn’t nominate. So I deduct 1/2 point 😊

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Originally Posted by 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

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1.Half wrong(Kalle-wrong,TGR-correct)
2.Wrong(Neuville "stole" in last event):D
3.Correct
4.Wrong
5.Correct