Personally I hope it doesn't take place as I have a really bad foreboding about parachuting a WRC event into a country without the necessary acquired experience to safely run it...and yes I now it has run once before.
Marketing Citroens and Hyundais may seem like motivation enough for the FIA but the sport needs NZ (or even Turkey, Greece or Jordan) if there is a genuine gap in the calendar!
If you have been to China it is VW that dominates their markets. Its rumored NZ 2018 in Tauranga is a tentative go.
Martin Brundle claims driver safety is the FIA’s ‘fourth’ priority after Oliver Bearman crash.
Brundle claimed that the FIA have prioritised the fans, the marshals, and the pitstop crew far more...
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