Quote Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC View Post
Did you read what M.Wilson said - in 2017 WRCar sales fell off a cliff and they cant sustain a business just making them for Ford to enter as a psuedo-factory team.
Take a good look on the eWRC site and you can see that WRC cars sales collapse started long before 2017; from 2014 onwards R5 cars become the main category in national and regional series and although WRC cars were still allowed, sometimes in the detuned RRC version, very few drivers managed to run them.

No matter how vital selling top cars is to MSport, the FIA can’t simply impose Rally1 cars use in national (that’s up to ASN’s) or regional series when they’re expected to cost only slightly less than a current WRC car.

It’s already hard to get a decent entry level in series like the ERC, the MERC or the APRC (and the BRC, btw) with R5 cars; with these Rally1 cars it’d be impossible. Unless Rally1 class becomes cheaper than projected, it simply can’t be a solution for national or regional rallying.