Originally Posted by
Allez Andruet
In a way I do agree, but... the safest way to kill a sport is to keep it untouched. Rally, like any other sport, needs to be attractive, and to be attractive (towards manufacturers, sponsors etc.) means that you need to have a plan for growth. And to grow, you have to be Global. One way or another. And don't get it wrong, there are ways to do it. WRC going to Japan or Africa would be brilliant, totally different than F1 (which, just to clarify, I have zero interest for) going to Azerbaijan or Bahrain.
Like it or not, the masses (i.e. the majority of onsite WRC crowds) don't give that much about the supporting classes. They're there to see the best cars and the drivers they know by name. So for them it's irrelevant whether there's 40 or 120 cars on the entry list.
Ofcourse WRC has to understand that most of its fans are European, but that doesn't mean we can't go Global.