The whole WRC circus is paid by manufacturers and their rich sponsors. Without them WRC will quickly become another ERC with few overseas evens where nobody goes. ERC in turn will suffer as well because the same pool of privateers can't keep two major series alive in the same time.
Yet, perhaps the greatest championships we have seen in the last 20 years were the IRC years. When we had so many different cars and so many privateers.
Problem is that most of current Rally2 manufacturers (or at least half of them) is not interested in factory teams or to be in the highest class of rallysport. They are customers oriented... And this...
Thank you for the confirmation.
I think it will be mostly Rally2 cars in the top class for quite a few years before there are enough WRC27 cars homologated and built. The new cars will appear at...
Yes.
Don't forget the current promoter is still obliged to do it's job until 2034 or whenever it is, or if they get wound up or bankrupt first. You'd need that before the FIA chat with...
there was also one Lancia Rally 4 on snow at the Jänner Rally in Austria in eraly January.
Lancia Corse HF