Quote Originally Posted by wyler View Post
care to debate?
i'll expand:

1. This looks like a solution looking for a problem. All teams are already supporting at least one WRC2 driver in order to showcase their car and as a young driver scheme. Toyota is late to the party but I'm sure they'll catch up soon. I don't see what will improve in this respect with such a rule coming in as the thing is already happening.
2. Promoting or hurting young talent? Let's imagine we're one of the team principals, if this rule comes in you'll want a driver that's fast and experienced to score as many points for you as possible so you'll probably go with a proven hand than some hotshot youngster who'll be fast but roll 3 times a rally. I realise some may think different but if you're serious about running your team you'll think how to maximise points.
3. Result transparency. I follow a lot of motorsport, watch most WRC rallies live, F1, WEC, MotoGP and then many other series as I catch them or highlights. I can appreciate there are different ways to score points that work and most make sense for their respective championship to some degree at least. I honestly tell you that this rule would piss me off trying to figure out who gets how many points every rally. Firstly by having only 2 Rally1 cars score increases the chances that the cars that can score points are lower down so you have to keep track of who's nominated that particular rally. Then you need to keep in mind who's nominated in Rally2 and as if there are already not enough subcategories and shananigans with drivers doing all rounds and scoring only 6 best out of nominated 7 out of a total of 13. But maybe you say, just wait and the TV graphics will show it. So I'm now supposed to ignore it and get some number which seems inconsistent and meaningless unless I make a spreadsheet to see who actually got points? no thanks

to conclude, I see no actual advantages compared to the current situation but plenty of complication. In fact to me it smells like Millener trying to adapt the WRC to MSport as they would like to run only 2 cars on most rallies. Sorry but that's not the way forward.