Quote Originally Posted by Doon View Post
Correct me if I’m wrong, but there aren’t any manufacturers currently serious about joining the WRC. That means if they can attract one it’ll be at least 2025 (more realistically 2026) until they are ready to start a rally. If one manufacturer joins, that’s 2 or 3 cars at best. Hardly fixing the problem.

The WRC has never been able to sustain more than 3 manufacturers, even during the late 90s early 2000’s when there were up to 7 teams, this was very short lived. What rallying can do is create more affordable classes, which always made the good events more interesting because we had satellite teams running quality drives who could push the works teams. How many genuine privateers have we had in Rally 1 cars, hiring from the works teams, 2? Berttelli and Sedaridis? Fair play to them for making up the numbers, but neither of them could challenge for a top 10 in WRC2 on a good day, so don’t bring much to the party apart from a few quid to M-Sport.
The problem is that motorsport is very expensive regardless of how much cost saving and affordability one tries to enforce. There have already been lots of cost sving rules and changes. Dont really think there is any more cost saving that can be done and evidentially all the cost saving done so far haven't really made manufacturers flock to WRC.