Quote Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC View Post
Interesting stat from F1 and its emissions:

"Of the 256,551 tonnes of carbon that F1 says it emitted as a sport in 2018, only 0.7% was from the cars themselves.

By far the largest proportions were from logistics, in terms of road, air and sea freight, at 45%, and personnel travel at 27.7%."

It follows that WRCar emissions must also be pretty low as a percentage of the WRC total.

As the Teams are based in Europe the best thing WRC could do to help the planet would be only to compete there. But instead the WRC want to expand around the world with the inevitable increase in CO2 from the logistics...
That's an interesting stat. The 2018 F1 season had 21 rounds, 11 of them outside Europe (I count Russian GP as European). In WRC for example in 2020 there would have been originally 7 European rallies from 14, but Chile was cancelled (it would have been neatly paired with Argentina).

WRC teams have two sets of service park equipment, one is for European events and the other for long-hauls. Only the rally cars and personnel are flown in, the big gear travels by land and sea. Do the F1 teams have the same?

An F1 race is roughly the same length as a WRC rally, 300 km, but rally drivers also drive about 1000 km of liaisons and hundreds of kilometres of recce while F1 drivers have qualifications (I don't know enough about F1 to know how much they drive during the weekend).

Again, I'm no expert but I would claim that F1 cars are more aerodynamic and involve less starting and stopping and wheelspin than rally cars, so they're more efficient in transforming the power from the engine into the speed they do.

It's true that the best way WRC could reduce its emissions would be to cut the longhauls. Also, having a smaller number of races, even if they were longer ones, would help, but this is not easy to organize.