Quote Originally Posted by Norm75 View Post
Citroen like to pull out of wrc every so often and concentrate on other Motorsport. Citroen is french, we've had a French world champion for the last 15 years.
You only have to look at any Motorsport website with a forum or comments section to see wrc is well down the order. Take crash.net for instance, wrc nowadays gets no comments whatsoever, and their journos can't even be bothered to write stories until they are about a week old anymore.
This site seems to be the exception where it comes to the amount of interest and comments rallying generates
Citroen was only mentioning the FIA Series and in those the WRC is actually the most popular, after F1.

Once we're living on a social media era, why not take the 'likes' or 'followers' numbers that each motorsport series has on their official pages? It's quite easy to check and probably more reliable than looking at forum comments. Here's Facebook 'likes' list:

Moto GP: 13 267 636;
F1: 7 396 496;
Nascar: 5 104 832;
MXGP (Motocross): 2 689 854;
WRC: 2 611 603;
Dakar: 2 107 559 ;
RB Air Race: 1 915 938;
Formula E: 1 490 641;
Superbikes: 1 337 246;
WTCR: 1 004 277;
Indycar: 884 876;
DTM: 649 950;
WRX: 544 040;
Blancpain GT Series: 379 462;
WEC: 307 984;
ERC: 280 063;
IMSA: 172 340.

Under 100k series aren’t listed but for sure some others with more than that are missing. Btw, WEC numbers are slim as most fans follow the 24h Le Mans page: 1 282 841.

The overall order is probably the same on the other social media, but it'd be nice if someone could also look on Twitter, Instagram or Youtube.

Maybe that way we'll finnaly believe that the WRC is actually popular and far from being a niche series, like some continue to pretend.