Silly Season 2019

[Allez Andruet]

Btw. with people sending 2-3 drivers "out" (Evans, JML etc.), who is supposed to actually drive the cars... there are still 11-12 factory seats to fill.

Good point which so often gets overlooked. While it can easily be argued that Evans (for example) could rightfully be sent off from the main class for 2019, who would take his place (assuming the replacement comes outside of current WRC roster)? I.e. how many drivers there are, who are likely to score more points than Evans? This is one of the issues the FIA created by launching these new WRC cars which are practically only available for factory teams and drivers. You can say there's Tidemand, but even him, with all the achievements he's had in WRC2, is completely untested in a current-spec WRC. Quickly counting, outside of the current factory drivers, there are only Meeke, Hänninen and Camilli who have any kind of experience from these new cars (deliberately excluding Kremer, H. Solberg and Serderidis). I bet the number was a bit different in late 2012, but ok, that's probably the price we have to pay for having these new cars. And I, as a fan, am more than willing to pay that