Quote Originally Posted by AnttiL View Post
Would be weird marketing strategy from VW to put the car further in running order and out of TV broadcasts...
Well, Ogier did drive his VW Fabia season outside WRC2 (better testing opportunies), so they have used that strategy before.
Also Henning was running outside WRC2 in Turkey and got plenty of PR-time, bad starting place only first day, after that speed order.

My prediction is still VW in WRC2.