Crystall ball predictions 2023

[Eli]

Eli, I think Neuville will win 3 events actually.

Needs to win both central European rally & Japan, who knows, maybe he’ll prove me wrong or actually prove me right ‘cause I wrote this in January.

[CeskyOndra]

1. Toyota wins man. title
2. Tanak retires or loses over 30s due to technical issues at least 3 times (can be multiple issues on same rally)
3. Neuville does not win title
4. At least 2 wins for each manufacturer
5. Solberg does not win WRC2 title, even though he wins at least one rally

This one is soooo true

[rp]

1. Rovanperä will take the WRC title
2. Toyota to win the Manufacturers title
3. Loubet will take his first Podium
4. Each three Manufacturers will win events
5. Huttunen will drive also this year Rally1 car in Finland

3/5

Loubet´s season was very bad and a podium was just a dream. Huttunen was driving at least Rally2 in Finland, but no chance to drive Rally1 and probably never will be anymore.

[becher]

1. Toyota becomes manufacturers Champion.
2. Neuville becomes drivers Champion.
3. Lappi wins at least one WRC event.
4. M-Sport won't win more than two WRC events.
5. Solberg doesn't win any event in WRC2.

2/5... miserable

[HKSjbg]

1. NOT every WRC event manages to cobble together a 300+km itinerary (I’m wording that very specifically to not include a 300+km rally with stage cancellations!)
2. Tänak will win the most rallies except for the world champion
3. Katsuta will win his first WRC event.
4. WRC-2 champion will be a driver who hasn’t yet won a WRC-2 round.
5. At Central European Rally a WRC-2 driver will finish inside the top 6.

Perfect score 0/5

[Jewy46]

1 - Tanak wins 2 rallies (Gets the most out of a car behind in development)
2 - Meeke makes a WRC2 appearance and shows his class by winning
3 - Eamonn Kelly finishes in the top 3 in JWRC
4 - Dirtfish do an article on the Father Ted/Gravel Crew meme crossover (this is very niche!)
5 - 1 event is cancelled/severely impacted due to a weather event

1 - Spot on!
2 - He made an appearance at Portugal in Craig's car, but suspension trouble put him out
3 - Close, 4th
4 - Wrong
5 - No, thankfully

[seb_sh]

1. Ogier 6th in the overall standings
2. Sordo will announce his retirement during the season
3. Breen will win a rally
4. Old Skoda Rally2 evo will win a WRC2 round
5. No driver wins their home event (Ogier in Monte doesn't count)

1. no, did one better and got 5th
2. no, this was floating around but no
3. sadly no
4. yes, Kajto in Safari, altough Greensmith finished ahead of him he was not registered for WRC2
5. yes, but Ogier did win Monte so good that was excluded from the prediction

2/5

[Eli]

Know I'm a bit late but since the season has yet to start, here are my 5 predictions:

1. Toyota claims yet another manufacturers' title.
2. The driver who leads the championship after Kenya won't be the one taking the title.
3. Hyundai won't win as many rallies as last year.
4. Neuville to be the only Hyundai driver to win a rally (will win 3 to be exact).
5. WRC2 (championship) winner (that will be Sami Pajari) will take one of the Rally1 drivers spot.

1. Right
2. Wrong
3. Right
4. Half right as he was the only driver to win but only managed to win twice.
5. Wrong
2.5/5-Lots of room for improvement in 2024.