WRC2 news & rumors 2023

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Looks like Ingram retained CarFinance24/7 but they have downgraded their spending. Shame, i liked the orange car!

The sponsorship reduction means Chris has had to start crowd-funding...

https://www.gofundme.com/f/chris-ing...f74852276f542d

I have worked tirelessly to raise further funding to let me compete throughout 2023. However, due to the current economic climate in the UK, it has been extremely difficult to find new brand partners and one of my main partners has had to drop out, despite the progress made in 2022 and World Rally Championship glory being within touching distance.

I now feel I have exhausted every option so have decided to launch this new campaign ahead of Rallye Monte Carlo. I am calling on you to join the Rally Warrior army and support my team on this mission. Every penny of your support will be used towards WRC competition. This campaign will run throughout the WRC 2023 season.

If you can help, I’d be so grateful and honoured to bring you along for the ride!

Thank you

Chris Ingram

[mknight]

With Toksport it might be that they won't have tons of cars, just that they will go with 4-5 to more rallies. With the 7 rally champ limits there were quite a few rallies last year where they had few or no cars.

Also while Fabia seems to be the best allround car you still need a driver, when you have one even a "worse" car can win. See Janer now with Fourmaux or say Croatia last year.

But for Skoda motorsport the main goal is to sell cars, which they succeed with.
Sadly in 2016-2017 it seemed the success would lead to top tier entry, but that got called off. Now I am not quite sure whether the overall effect is positive for WRC, since it takes money from MSport or Hyundai. But C3 Rally2 success would do the same.

[RS]

But for Skoda motorsport the main goal is to sell cars, which they succeed with.
Sadly in 2016-2017 it seemed the success would lead to top tier entry, but that got called off. Now I am not quite sure whether the overall effect is positive for WRC, since it takes money from MSport or Hyundai. But C3 Rally2 success would do the same.

I won’t shed any tears for them, it should just drive them to make their own products better.

It seems now that Skoda give partial support to many drivers instead of full support to one (Mikkelsen) and I think that has to be a good thing for WRC. It’s just a shame there are limited options for those drivers to progress further at the moment.

BTW, it’s quite surprising Solberg is not in one of the two main Toksport teams, but I suppose the deals were already done with the others when he signed up.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

I won’t shed any tears for them, it should just drive them to make their own products better.

The difference with Skoda is that they only make a Rally2 car and can give it 100% priority. Whereas others have a whole range of different rally cars to build and perfect (like M-Sport).

[RS]

The sponsorship reduction means Chris has had to start crowd-funding...

https://www.gofundme.com/f/chris-ing...f74852276f542d

I have worked tirelessly to raise further funding to let me compete throughout 2023. However, due to the current economic climate in the UK, it has been extremely difficult to find new brand partners and one of my main partners has had to drop out, despite the progress made in 2022 and World Rally Championship glory being within touching distance.

I now feel I have exhausted every option so have decided to launch this new campaign ahead of Rallye Monte Carlo. I am calling on you to join the Rally Warrior army and support my team on this mission. Every penny of your support will be used towards WRC competition. This campaign will run throughout the WRC 2023 season.

If you can help, I’d be so grateful and honoured to bring you along for the ride!

Thank you

Chris Ingram

Sadly it’s probably a problem for Ingram that sponsors, particularly ones who only operate in the UK, don’t get very good exposure from WRC2. Hopefully with maybe sparser WRC1 entries this year the promoter might up their game.

[Sulland]

BTW, it’s quite surprising Solberg is not in one of the two main Toksport teams, but I suppose the deals were already done with the others when he signed up.

Maybe Oliver could take Ingram onboard Toksport 3, and introduce him to the Monster gang, so he gets a full season for once!?

[Jarek Z]

Toksport enters two teams in WRC2 2023:

Team #1:
Emil Lindholm
Sami Pajari

Team #2:
N. Gryazin
Marquito Bulacia

source:
https://twitter.com/toksportwrt/stat...C88ZW3_90sAAAA

[Managarium]

So, in which Tok Sport team is Greensmith then?

[becher]

So, in which Tok Sport team is Greensmith then?

Separate "team" with his family company as a title sponsor?

[rallyfiend]

So, in which Tok Sport team is Greensmith then?

Probably not running as a team.

Just going for Drivers / Co-driver's championships