2023 WRC News & Rumours

[Managarium]

Not long until Monte to find out, and judging by M-Sport's road book they'll have some new aero coming,hopefully sooner rather than later.
Finally for the first time since 2019, we have the three strongest drivers in 3 teams, should be good!

Don't forget an engine update. https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/why-m...gine-upgrades/

[dimviii]

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Jost Capito and Francois-Xavier Demaison have both left their positions at Williams F1 ��

[EstWRC]

no testing this december for Monte like in previous years https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/why-a...e-in-december/

[Eli]

no testing this december for Monte like in previous years https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/why-a...e-in-december/

So basically they've cut the testing days in half (from 42 to 21) without even publishing it during the last WMSC, Nice! (did see a rumour or two about them cutting the testing days).

[TypeR]

Maaasssive cost saving! (Nobooody but bs PR cares about it.)
I would bring testing to 1 day only. All the drivers get to see the car and sit in it. Should be enough.
Great plan to ,,kill'' WRC pretty fast.

[atsiotras79]

So let me get this straight…
If Ford rents 2 extra cars in Monte. Can they give the “renters” half a day of testing and the rest of each of those days, Tanak drives…? Can that be done?
Is it one day per car? Or one day per car that is declared for points?

[dimviii]

TOYOTA CAUGHT OUT BY HYUNDAI’S RATE OF DEVELOPMENT

https://dirtfish.com/rally/toyota-ca...f-development/

[Co-driven]

So let me get this straight…
If Ford rents 2 extra cars in Monte. Can they give the “renters” half a day of testing and the rest of each of those days, Tanak drives…? Can that be done?
Is it one day per car? Or one day per car that is declared for points?

No, unless these drivers are entered by the "works" M-Sport team. If it's a WRC Team (like Toyota NG or whatever it's called) or a privateer, then it won't count.

And I think that 2022 had some extra test days because of new tyres or something like that.

[Eli]

No, unless these drivers are entered by the "works" M-Sport team. If it's a WRC Team (like Toyota NG or whatever it's called) or a privateer, then it won't count.

And I think that 2022 had some extra test days because of new tyres or something like that.

2021 had those extra days I think: https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/wrc-t...tra-test-days/ in 2022 it was tasked to Kalle Rovanperä to test the tyres for the new cars: https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/pirel...ith-rovanpera/

[J4MIE]

Rumour that Petter Solberg will drive on the Classic Safari in Kenya 2023, but I presume this is false……