Originally Posted by
the sniper
Glad someone else thinks that. To me it's an important opportunity wasted by the Promoter, FIA and sport in general, they really should have focused on this chance to strengthen the depth of the WRC, particularly given the lack of entries in the main class next year. While I appreciate the cost ramifications, a "Pro" Championship should have followed all 14 rounds. The Promoter really should have worked hard to incentivise every current R5 manufacture to run at least two cars, particularly by offering far more comprehensive media coverage of the class. If you look at how many rallies the main 'works' (fully, semi or privately funded) WRC2 drivers did last year, many of them did around nine or ten rallies (not all WRC). With a mixture of some more manufacturer funding and private driver funding, with value being added to the Championship, is it really inconceivable that a full season couldn't be achieved?
As it is, WRC2 Pro suffers from the same problems as WRC2, but will have fewer entries making its weaknesses all the more apparent. I don't know how you can cohesively cover this 'professional' Championship coverage wise when crews and now whole manufacturer teams are missing various random rounds and competitors for the Championship regularly don't actually compete against each other... It's a mess. If they were going to do this half arsed, they should have not bothered at all.