Quote Originally Posted by ToKu View Post
Cars should have more power.
The decline of the sport is imo proportional to decline of car's power.
Many of "rally friends" who were just occasional, not hardcore, fans dumped rallies after 2014. 2014 was the first WRC year with "smaller" WRC cars in Poland. They missed the "armageddon". The feeling of powerful car (vibration, deep bass, airpreassure, etc.) It was just fast car in 2014. Not insides shaking monster.

P.S. I believe that banning WRC cars from points in lower class rallies in effect from 2005 was the first serious mistake that hurt rallies.

More power = more spectacular rallies = more spectators = ...
More power = more spectacular rallies = more spectators = More cost = less manufactures = less competition = boring rallies = rallying in trouble.

Cars with more power than Rally1 is the last thing we need as the cars are far too expensive as it is and in motorsport you can generally draw a straight line from increased power to increased cost.