[WRC] News & rumours (part IV) 2016

[Simmi]

It's a safety "issue" they say, don't think any of the privateers are more accident prone than any other really, more the other way around when you don't have to care so much about the car. When was the last time Prokop had a big crash...?

This is where the confusion lies because it hasn't been clearly communicated by the FIA - likely because they had no idea what they were doing.

I don't think anyone has ever actually said: Martin Prokop, Solberg, Bertelli etc - you can't drive a 2017 WRC car. That's just something that has been assumed due to lack of proper regs or information. Really I think the FIA just don't want some young teenager or some old dentist to be able to drive a 2017 car. They've made a rule that they don't really understand or know how to enforce. Creating a problem where there wasn't one.