2023 WRC News & Rumours

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Those who hang on every word published by 'rally journalists' who function more as an extension of teams' and drivers' PR departments are bad enough, we can all laugh at them, but I kind of understand how they can be taken in by it. Unless you're involved in some capacity, or spend a bit of time digging into stories, unfortunately the majority of what you can see and hear is just PR bullshit.

Intensely hating on a guy for doing something he loves - and spending an absolute truckload of cash to do so, funding young drivers and keeping a WRC team alive in the process... this I don't understand at all. And I don't think you need to know anything about rallying to see how unnecessary it is.

So many people go their whole lives wishing to do what Serderidis is doing. He's put more back into the sport this year alone than 99% of people could manage in ten lifetimes. Yes, he's slow. Yes, other people would be faster - quite a lot faster. But he doesn't have aspirations to be a world champion. He doesn't post deluded nonsense all over social media, as many others do. Just like the Gus Greensmiths and Lorenzo Bertellis of this world, he's not stealing a seat from anyone 'more deserving', quite the opposite. He's just an old guy living his dream.

To compare him to Paulo Nobre or Natalie Barrett is really unfair - neither of those have put a cent towards any young drivers from their home countries. And unlike Barrett, he's never melted an exhaust manifold through being off the throttle for so long while using anti-lag