WRC main class in 2025

[lmmjvss]

What r your opinions on "Swappable batteries?"
I mean... Formula E run them for 45 min straight, cant WRC run them for 3 or 4 stages and then swap batteries in a choosen location? Its relatvly "easy" to do. These guys did in less than 2 minutes, check it out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29LGfllk5Qo

[WRCStan]

Red Bull Sports! There seems to be a lot going on lately. Rumour is that 78 year old founder Dietrich Mateschitz is very sick (see https://sportnieuws.nl/formule-1/toe...-is-vrij-ziek/). When Mateschitz finally will disappear, all his shares of Red Bull Company will probably be transfered to the Thai mother company. That will create a lot insecurity for the Red Bull Sports branch, especially for WRC where the majority of the Rally 1 drivers are sponsored by Red Bull and M-Sport might be in serious trouble too ...

Thought for the day - when did everybody last physically see somebody drinking a Red Bull?

[wyler]

Thought for the day - when did everybody last physically see somebody drinking a Red Bull?

eurobasket 2022 every bar (also with "organics by redbull" new brand replacing coca cola) - yesterday night - milan
music festival same way with organics - last weekend - italy
world downhill championship - tv (france) - some days ago

[AnttiL]

Thought for the day - when did everybody last physically see somebody drinking a Red Bull?

I regularly have one like once a month but do not look in the mirror…

[lmmjvss]

Hmmm not sure where to post this, but since this is "ABOUT THE FUTURE OF MOTORSPORT............" ?
The new hybrid BMW suv literally used the Extreme-E (with the BMW front nose) SUV for the propaganda...
Not sure what that means... if they are about to join Extreme-E or what, but, if this is it, meeh..
Another Manufacturer choosing OTHER sport to join =/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1tmzvmxJnw

[fiscorpun]

Robert Reid: “One of the problems we have at the moment is the OEMs don’t know what they want."
(Talking about the new rules for '25)
https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/fia-7...c-regulations/

haha What a joke. At this point they should just say "Look, wrc is kinda pointless for us at this point. We get more exposure doing Dakar, the 24h Le Mans and some cool clips on youtube, so... Bye"

[Eli]

Robert Reid: “One of the problems we have at the moment is the OEMs don’t know what they want."
(Talking about the new rules for '25)
https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/fia-7...c-regulations/

haha What a joke. At this point they should just say "Look, wrc is kinda pointless for us at this point. We get more exposure doing Dakar, the 24h Le Mans and some cool clips on youtube, so... Bye"

So basically, more news without any news. I think last week in Autosport they said that 70% of the 2025 regulations were ready.

[fiscorpun]

So basically, more news without any news. I think last week in Autosport they said that 70% of the 2025 regulations were ready.

DirtFish got really bad, posting 3 news per week.... and 857 different articles about these 3 weekly news

[AndyRAC]

Robert Reid: “One of the problems we have at the moment is the OEMs don’t know what they want."
(Talking about the new rules for '25)
https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/fia-7...c-regulations/

haha What a joke. At this point they should just say "Look, wrc is kinda pointless for us at this point. We get more exposure doing Dakar, the 24h Le Mans and some cool clips on youtube, so... Bye"

To be honest, it's a pretty damning indictment on the sport. History tells us whatever they decide is likely to be the wrong decision. However, if they have half a brain, they'll realise they need extra manufacturers. The current number isn't good enough.....

[WRCStan]

DF don't set the regs, at least I'm grateful for the progress report of where the FIA thoughts are at.