WRC future

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Let’s stay calm, avoiding to get ‘electric hysteria’. All major motorsport series are using (and will continue to use) Hybrids and unless the FIA decide to ruin 50 years of world rally heritage, turning the WRC into a Mickey Mouse competition (with endless loops on 5km stages), there’s no way this sport can use full EV’s any time soon.

If the existing agreement on the 2022 rules is broken (the current 3 teams were in favor of a high tech control hybrid system and the FIA launched a bid accordingly), there’s an easy way to solve the problem: the FIA creates a mild hybrid R5+ top category and makes a deal to compensate Compact Dynamics, the company that won the hybrid system bid.

There’s absolutely no need to reinvent the sport or turn it into a joke.

Look, I don't want it to go electric, but if it means survival, then fair enough.
Regarding the FIA changing 50 years of heritage; It won't be them that decides, they will inevitably follow what the manufacturers want in terms of a marketing vessel. If that is electric, the FIA will have to go this way and just find a way around the potential issues.
It will be a while off yet though and I agree that a U-turn and re-route to R5+ seems potentially like a solution, but I just can't help think that the next 12 months are going to expose a lot of weaknesses in the structure of the sport at this level.