Maybe we, hardcore rally fans, are a bit radical defending the sport identity. Almost every time a change is proposed we get suspicious and tend to criticize it by saying this time “they” have gone too far and “they” are killing rallysport…

Actually, the sport history is made of ups and downs and it seems were getting close to one of its highest eras. 5 manus involved in WRC, several countries in a cue to get a series event and lots of young drivers coming from different parts of the world, are promising signs.

Yep, authorities doesn’t praise enough the sport heritage, we still don’t have proper mainstream media coverage at WRC (will we ever have it?), FIA’s car homologation system is too manu centered, private tuners are missed on a regional and national level, but we must admit there’s a constant evolution and we’re far from rally worst era, the late 00’s, when nobody seemed to care and the rally world was left to stagnation.

Perhaps it’s too late to get the old endurance rally format back; perhaps we don’t need it anymore. A globalised sprint series seems to be the way to go; eventually we’ll embrace it, but it needs to be implemented in a more balanced way. Fingers crossed!