2022 WRC News & Rumours

[Sulland]

New top class is exiting, will they habe reliability issues or work perfectly out of the box?
As of now they look slower than 2021 cars, will they catch up in 2022?

[Andre Oliveira]

[Eli]

They talk about going green and being sustainable yet they make the crews go the long way round twice instead of staying in the southern hemisphere. At the very least they could put NZ straight after Finland, and then you have a longer gap between the two trips, but seeing they're only separated by Spain, they could easily swap between the two (Spain & NZ) and go on straight from NZ to Japan, at least for the drivers and teams it would be less work (and more eco-friendly).

[AnttiL]

They talk about going green and being sustainable yet they make the crews go the long way round twice instead of staying in the southern hemisphere. At the very least they could put NZ straight after Finland, and then you have a longer gap between the two trips, but seeing they're only separated by Spain, they could easily swap between the two (Spain & NZ) and go on straight from NZ to Japan, at least for the drivers and teams it would be less work (and more eco-friendly).

The service equipment will take weeks to ship from NZ to Japan. And even if there were no rallies in between, the drivers would still fly home (and rally cars to rebuild) in between. The European events use their own service equipment, so it doesn’t travel back and forth. So it doesn’t make a difference really to have Spain in between. It has been the same often with Mexico-France-Argentina sequence.

Only way to make savings to traveling is to have two long-distance events situated close to each other geographically, and link the cars, like Argentina and Chile 2019. Likely some drivers traveled home in between, some didn’t.

[Eli]

The service equipment will take weeks to ship from NZ to Japan. And even if there were no rallies in between, the drivers would still fly home (and rally cars to rebuild) in between. The European events use their own service equipment, so it doesn’t travel back and forth. So it doesn’t make a difference really to have Spain in between. It has been the same often with Mexico-France-Argentina sequence.

Only way to make savings to traveling is to have two long-distance events situated close to each other geographically, and link the cars, like Argentina and Chile 2019. Likely some drivers traveled home in between, some didn’t.

Ok so at least don't make the crews go back and forth on such a short time period, they could easliy have put NZ after NI or before NI and after Finland and then at least they'd (driver & crews) have a longer period between both long haul events.

[Danny0405]

Finally... mid-october.
I like the principle of maintaining 4 pure tarmac rallies including the two last one.
Still no American rallye...

Any rumors on the last tarmac rallye: theoretically not Ypres; the date looks like Germany but Barum would be cool.

[AnttiL]

Finally... mid-october.
I like the principle of maintaining 4 pure tarmac rallies including the two last one.
Still no American rallye...

Any rumors on the last tarmac rallye: theoretically not Ypres; the date looks like Germany but Barum would be cool.

On previous rumors it has been Northern Ireland

[Got Mail]

On previous rumors it has been Northern Ireland

It is Northern Ireland.

Confirmed here:
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/n...-40953772.html

[pantealex]

It is Northern Ireland.

Confirmed here:
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/n...-40953772.html

so FIA says TBA and local newspaper says NI,

all this same day

you really believe it´s confirmed ?

Why did FIA say TBA if it´s 100% sure NI ?

#justasking

[er88]

so FIA says TBA and local newspaper says NI,

all this same day

you really believe it´s confirmed ?

Why did FIA say TBA if it´s 100% sure NI ?

#justasking

Think the WRC want to avoid a public affair where NI once again fail to get an event together. So better to say TBA, rather than getting everyone's hopes up.
The promoter is desperate for a round in the UK but this NI event has failed to come to anything for years....., and it wouldn't surpise me if it doesn't again. Unless the Scottish government back an event, I can't see any UK round in the championship for the medium to longer term (NI will be a one off, if it happens at all).