For sure WRC needs privateer's but let’s be clear: ’17 cars aren’t made for them.

The Privateer’s Cup for ’16 WRC cars seemed to be the best solution for private drivers wanting to use WRC cars, but sadly FIA managed to instantly spoil it by allowing privateer's to drive ’17 cars. Honestly I still believe that for safety reasons (and also for the Privateer’s Cup sake), ’17 WRC cars should only be used by top drivers with a Super License.

The new cars are also too expensive and technically too demanding to be run by private teams and the rational option for the wealthy privateer’s able to use them is to become a paying driver in a manu team, like Bertelli or Al Qassimi have been doing in different forms.

Ostberg choose to use Jipocar private structure and he’s having a hard time, but should the rules be more flexible for him because of that? Can the manus that sell ’17 cars to privateer's get access to extra data by having their costumers testing freely outside Europe? At least in theory, there’s no doubt that MSport could take advantage from that loophole; it makes perfect sense to fix it.