Sponsors don't care if something is affordable or not. They want the attention. WRC vs R5 in that terms is a hopeless fight. Unless someone manages to get an R5 close to the podium.

I don't understand why some people don't like slower privateers (except N.O.T, who has declared multiple times what he thinks of them). As some of the previous posts here have hinted, rallying isn't only about creme de la creme.