[WRC] News & Rumours 2019

[Mirek]

Exactly, why would Skoda run a factory team if they're the only ones fighting for the championship unless others are actually interested to join.

This year all major R5 manufacturers except Peugeot have been involved in WRC2. The fact that Škoda is dominating doesn't mean others are not involved. We've had works cars of M-Sport (Camilli), Citroën (Lefebvre) and Hyundai (Huttunen) in WRC2. You can easily check their entrant name in the entry lists and see that it's manufacturers not privateers. Recently M-Sport had even three works cars in Wales under its own banner (Camilli, Edwards and Laffey).

I think that FIA wants VW to get involved again on a manufacturer level. We'll see how that plays out but anyway it's not a fault of Škoda that it's been dominating. It's up to the others to up their game.