[WRC] News & Rumours 2020

[racerx1979]

Their articles for the first ARA event last week was okay, though it wasn't particularly exciting. Just under 40 cars when there were over sixty ten years ago. Subaru's factory effort such as it is wasn't present, either.

The next event in March should be bigger; the organizers say they have over a hundred entries. I just got an email asking if I'd volunteer.

Any chance the international reporters will have a chance to grace the US series with a visit? Not sure how they'd manage talking to people that aren't already news items and with no instant timing. They'd need crews at the start and finish communicating on their own radio frequency as there's no phone service. I've always wanted to try the logistics of something like that; years of laying out marshals and instructing start/finish crews is fun for an on the spot challenge but a change would be fun.

As someone who was once involved with US rallying since Hyundai and Mitsu were involved way back when Henry Joy and Paul Choinere was driving with Buffum Hyundai team. That was as close as we were going to get to have a WRC event in the states with over 100 entries at nearly every event. When you see how events are run in Finland, Germany and even Turkey it would involve a huge effort to run an actual WRC event. Maybe an event in Canada or up north with the involvement of Dirt Fish. Most other states would just get crazy trying to protect endangered moths and mosquitoes. Dont forget Subaru brought over a couple WRC cars at Rim of the World. One of them was driven by Mark Lovell. The other was a GC8, but not sure who drove it. Petter Solberg also came out and drove a stage and this was when Petter was killing it in WRC. I have not seen such involvement since then. Rim of the World was extremely close to being a WRC event, but the head of the Angeles National Forest was concerned about some endangered frog in the hills of Palmdale. The event never took place and Rim of the World was canceled for good. City of Palmdale would have made a boat load of money if the WRC were to take place, but dumb US politicians failed to cease the opportunity. It's this kind of thinking why the US will not have a solid WRC event. We have plenty of capable organizers in the US so lets hope it happens somwhere up north like Seattle