[WRC] News & rumours (part IV) 2016

[Mirek]

Why is it so difficult to allow 2016 spec WRC cars to run with 2017 WRC cars in the same category?
Do the FIA officials not like to see well funded private teams in WRC cars beating (running ahead of) works supported WRC2 R5 etc cars with young drivers. Does it make it difficult for the limited camera crews to travel from stage to stage covering the first ten cars etc?
Could always run WRC2017, WRC2 then a gap to the WRC16 private cars for live coverage to keep sponsors happy etc.? (or restrict the 16 cars to run at the same speed as R5)

I somehow learned not to search for common logic in FIA decision. The fact is that it hurts no-one to keep them allowed because they are clearly slower and not more than several gentleman drivers would use them anyway.

who would be stupid enough to spend his money to run a private old generation WRC where the only competition would be other stupid people in the same car?

That seriously stupid question. Anyone who
a) already has a WRC car and doesn't want to spend half a million Euro for another one which is useful only for WRC events
b) anyone who drives just for fun and doesn't want to spend hundreds of thousands Euro for renting a car which he can't fully use anyway
c) anyone who drives just one rally and doesn't want to use a car which he doesn't know at all
etc.

The point is why not to allow those stupid people to do that?