Quote Originally Posted by denkimi View Post
And while doing so loose 90% of spectators, which will cause all manufacturers to lose interest too due to no more revenue.

Wrc just needs to let the people who have the means to build a car compete, without having approval from one of the few remaining car companies. If they did this to f1 we would have like 6 cars on the grid left.
In an article about rally Estonia, Aava comments drop in spectator numbers.
One of his explanations based on some poll is that most people (60% -out of what?) said they will watch online.

For online watchers sound means close to zero. (since the volume of all cars is tuned to same level and hidden under commentary and/or co-driver).

Sound is right now the only big difference between petrol/hybrid and full EV, and it's not something that is impossible to change.

Hence I am extremely sceptical of your 90% claim.

But I do agree that going more "hobby"/non-manu teams could also be a different way.