[WRC] News & Rumours 2019

[ToughMac]

Yep, and for breakfast the French winning crew had baguette and Brie cheese, made from French cows milk; even the bananas were French, from Martinique island…I’ll save you lunch and dinner menus. Seriously, this isn’t about Citroen being French: the 100th win is a new WRC milestone and it deserves to be properly mentioned. Btw, vive le WRC!

All jokes aside this should be a PR or a marketing persons wet dream. Don't know if the old rallying adage of "win on Sunday sell on Monday" still rings true today but what Citroen achieved over the weekend provide they make the best use of it should translate into a potentially huge sales opportunity. That sales opportunity is not just in France but right across Europe.

[T16]

Heads up if anyone is interested: The FIA are opening their rally hall of fame today at 17:30 CET. Live on their facebook page.

[rhm]

All jokes aside this should be a PR or a marketing persons wet dream. Don't know if the old rallying adage of "win on Sunday sell on Monday" still rings true today but what Citroen achieved over the weekend provide they make the best use of it should translate into a potentially huge sales opportunity. That sales opportunity is not just in France but right across Europe.

https://twitter.com/Ryan_Champion/st...28350231240704

[dimviii]

FIA pushing on with plans to have hybrid/electric WRC rules for '22

https://www.autosport.com/wrc/news/1...rules-for-2022

[AL14]

FIA pushing on with plans to have hybrid/electric WRC rules for '22

https://www.autosport.com/wrc/news/1...rules-for-2022

Nice, I can start checking one of my 2019 predictions.

[Andre Oliveira]

FIA Hall of Fame WRC: https://halloffame.fia.com/hall-of-famers

Didier Auriol
Massimo Biasion
Stig Blomqvist
Richard Burns
Marcus Grönholm
Juha Kankkunen
Sébastien Loeb
Tommi Mäkinen
Colin Mcrae
Hannu Mikkola
Sébastien Ogier
Walter Röhrl
Carlos Sainz
Timo Salonen
Petter Solberg
Ari Vatanen
Björn Waldegård

[Allez Andruet]

If the idea is to portrait the greatest and most accomplished legends the sport has, it's a joke of a Hall of Fame without mr. Maximum Attack.

All objections are automatically dismissed.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Hall of Fame ? Is being World Rally Champion not enough of a title to bring a driver fame ?

[Rally Power]

FIA pushing on with plans to have hybrid/electric WRC rules for '22

https://www.autosport.com/wrc/news/1...rules-for-2022

I hope they’ll use only a mild hybrid system; a more sophisticated one will make the cars even more expensive and potentially less reliable. We’re living a fantastic WRC era; it’d be a shame to see the FIA ruin it.

[mknight]

I hope they’ll use only a mild hybrid system; a more sophisticated one will make the cars even more expensive and potentially less reliable. We’re living a fantastic WRC era; it’d be a shame to see the FIA ruin it.

In 2017 and most of 2018 everything was positive. But to be real now you basically have only 2 manu teams fully taking part with 3rd running only 2 cars cause it's too expensive and 3rd only "renting" cars for money. So unless some changes are made to both reduce cost and increase interest from manufacturers it's likely to go downhill quite fast. Just like it did from 2004 to 2009.
- multiple teams are complaining how aero parts cost too much
- multiple manufacturers have voiced that WRC needs at minimum some hybrid system to attract them