Crystal Ball Time for 2017

[Marcco]

1) Ogier wins championship after intense fight with Meeke
2) Following Ogier’s win and solid season from Tanak, M-sport takes manufactures title but only buy couple points.
3) Hyundai misses manufacturers title by couple points after intense internal battle between Neuville and Paddon (these two end up 3-4 not far from Meeke)
4) Toyota takes 3rd in manufacturers title after their drivers focuses more on finishing rallies for development.
5) Citroen takes 4th in manufacturers title while being best car in 2017. (Actually they will be 4th because the car is a dog!)
*extra 6) There are at least 3 theoretical WDC going into last round.

[Doon]

1. Jon Desborough uses the word 'eclipse' more than 10 times per every 1 hour show
2. Latvala will not find the "feeling"
3. Meeke will remind us that he doesn't have as much experience as the others.
4. Ogier World Rally Champion.
5. I will enter my first (...and probably only) WRC event.

[dupanton]

5. I will enter my first (...and probably only) WRC event.

Crazy idea or a real possibility?

[Meekefan]

1) Ogier will take the championship fighting with Meeke
2) Hyundai will be manufacturers champion. Citroen and Ford will loose the champioship due to irregularity of second drivers.
3) Citroen will be unbateable in asphalt (Fail - Beaten by own failing in Corsica)4) Toyota will be better than the most of forum members expect (some podium will be achieved) (WIN)

[tomhlord]

1 - World Champion, Ogier
2 - Toyota will achieve 3 podium finishes across 2017 (WIN (at least if you''d put 'at least')
3 - Tanak, Sweden Winner (FAIL)
4 - DMACK and Evans to win Wales RallyGB
5 - Neuville will finish 2nd in the drivers championship

[Rallyper]

Crazy idea or a real possibility?

Depends on entering as spectator or driver...

[Doon]

Depends on entering as spectator or driver...

Quite likely and as driver

[KiwiWRCfan]

1) The season begins with four drivers of four different nationalities in cars with four different liveries taking wins in Monte Carlo, Sweden, Mexico and Corsica. (WIN if you'd stopped right here!) Going into Rally Argentina we have a fourth different leader of drivers points table.
Media and fans already starting to call it most exciting WRC season ever
2) RedBull TV strategy of televising Saturday midday stages live becomes a huge success, many position changes occur live on TV. Sport begins attracting new younger fans
3) Hyundai enter their R5's in Asia Pacific Rally Championship to end Skoda's recent run of uncontested FIA titles
4) In second half of season 3 drivers finish a rally with only 7 seconds separating them. They create history of closest ever WRC podium
5) Drivers and Manufacturers titles are not decided until Power Stage in Australia

and for 2 bonus points
6) Tommi Makinen enters himself in Rally Finland with Akio Toyoda as his codriver.
7) Professional photographers at Rally GB compete for the "N.O.T. Award" given for best photo featuring Autumn leaf colours

[Rallyper]

I´m sure N.O.T. is sitting at home making last revision on his stunning contribution to this thread, being published in a few hours from now. Maybe though after midnight. Right NOT?

[electroliquid]

1) Ogier World Champion 5th time. Points gap won't be that big like past few seasons, but still...Meeke will make mistakes, Latvala is Latvala, Neuville turning into Latvala's style driver - fast but not very strong minded...
2) M-Sport win manufacturers title. Ogier still be The Best, and Tanak will win event or two. When Tanak fail Evans could be good enough wingman for Ogier. Citroen - one mans army, Hyundai - no strong leader, they only has chance of they have really better car; Toyota - lack of experience. (WIN-ish)
3) Toyota will be faster than many expects, they win some podiums. (WIN)
4) No serious problems with reliability, or increased number of big crashes. But there will be much more minor incidents like bit too wide and rear stuck into something, or cut too much in third/fourth corner of group of corners, due to higher corner speed, and broken suspension/transmission (FAIL - Citroen have major problems)
5) We will hear about plans of new/comeback manufacturer in WRC or WRC2 category.