2022 WRC News & Rumours

[seb_sh]

so they can really have the perfect part time line up if Evans join Hyundai also

Doubt Evans would take a part time drive...

[bandit12]

Doubt Evans would take a part time drive...

And i doubt bit more, that he will ever want to go to hyundai

[TypeR]

[AnttiL]

so they can really have the perfect part time line up if Evans join Hyundai also

No.

[wyler]

TAVARES (ALFA ROMEO CEO): "THE ALFA ROMEO BRAND HAS BEEN RELAUNCHED, IT WILL BE IN MOTORSPORT EVEN WITHOUT SAUBER".
"You have to look at things objectively: the partnership we had with Sauber was a quality agreement, negotiated very well by my predecessor. We exploited it very well during the period of recovery of the Alfa Romeo brand on the market. Today the brand is very profitable and in full recovery.
Conditions are changing and we absolutely do not want to put into F1 the enormity of the resources that will be invested by some of our competitors. So we are retiring cleanly and kindly. With this partnership with Sauber, we have used F1 more than they have used us.
From this point of view, everything that has happened is rational. The job is finished. We will return to another discipline that has not yet been decided. Jean-Philippe Imparato, the head of Alfa Romeo, will submit his options to me.
One thing is certain: the brand will be present in motorsport even after 2023, when our agreement with Sauber ends. Given the history of the brand, there is no doubt that this is the case'.
Source: L'Equipe

[skarderud]

Fingers crossed for rally then, but do they get exposure enough in todays WRC?
Lots of that in F1, but also ridicilous amount if money to.
TCR or something is more "alfa-ish" than rally too.

I hope for a Lancia comeback though.

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[Rallyest]

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[djip]

TCR or something is more "alfa-ish" than rally too.

Alfa has a rich history in rallying, there were a force in the 60s, less so in the 70s (but then they dabbled in french events with one of my favourite car, the monster Alfetta V8 !), then bakcin the 80s with the groupA Alfetta GTVs.
I knoow WRC is not the moost "eefficient" marketing tools these days, but if you do it properly, it can do miracles to re-establish a brand tat nobody really cares of anymore (circa Audi, Peugeot, Subaru). After all, there isn't a simpler message than "drive te same car on the same roads as the champs do". Fingers crossed, but don't raise your hopes too much ...

[AnttiL]

https://www.rallit.fi/nyt-on-hieno-v...as-palmasissa/

RACC would like Spain's WRC round to alternate between Catalunya and Las Palmas (Canarias)

[Tom K]

It would be great. Maybe a bit more expensive for spectators but awesome island to spend a time there. One problem could be with number of stages. For ERC event they needed to close middle of the island, so 3-days rally will require finding more roads and probably use also other parts. And let's wait whether we have anybody on the grid in 2025