Quote Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC View Post
If confirmed it's no surprise whatsoever as the current Manufacturers have all the power.

For them, finding other ways of getting extra Rally1 cars running was way more attractive than changing the Regs mid-cycle.

And let's be fair, any extra Rally1 cars aren't likely to be super-competitive as there just aren't the drivers to compete with the current elite drivers anyway.
IMO any radical change without being announced at least 2 years ahead logically can not bring any new manufacturers anyway and doing a change just for the sake of change isn't a strategy.