2024 WRC News & Rumours

[HKSjbg]

Scotland now approached for Rally GB...

There was a story ages ago about Hugh Chambers saying Scottish tarmac would be the long term aim after the (now dead in the water) NI bid to run Rally ‘UK’. I will have to download this issue of MN and read the detail.

I’m not the biggest fan of the Jim Clark Rally as a spectacle, which I would assume would form the basis of a potential WRC round, would much prefer to see a Perth-based gravel ‘RSAC Scottish Rally GB’ running in the first weekend of June

[WRCStan]

I love this 'SNP Rally GB'.

Drinks for everybody here if it happens.

[er88]

Rally Scotland would be class, but not tarmac when the country has some of the best gravel roads in the world. An event around Perth/stirling like the IRC days would give options up and down the country, especially if we are moving away from having a need to return to a central service as much as possible.

Stages like Craigvinean, Drummond Hill, Errochty etc north of perth, the trossachs stages west of stirling, and then you could spend a day further south or up to the aberdeenshire forests. Knockhill race track & Scone Palace etc could be used.

Doubt the motorsport uk goons will get anywhere though, years of these news articles or soundbites and we have got nowhere with "rallygb", while they've also let the british championship die a death.

[Steve Boyd]

And, don't forget, a ceremonial start in Blythswood Square!

[Fast Eddie WRC]

WRC Officials met with MSUK in Sweden re Scotland...

https://www.motorsport.com/wrc/news/...land/10577721/

[AndyRAC]

WRC Officials met with MSUK in Sweden re Scotland...

https://www.motorsport.com/wrc/news/...land/10577721/

They can meet all they like, and have all kinds of grand plans, it won't solve the issue of "Who's paying to host it?"

[rallyfiend]

They can meet all they like, and have all kinds of grand plans, it won't solve the issue of "Who's paying to host it?"

“We met with David [Richards] and Hugh Chambers and had some very initial discussions,” WRC event director Simon Larkin told Autosport/Motorsport.com. “I would say it’s at very, very initial stages from their side. We’ll just continue to work with them.

This seems like a defining statement. MSUK put something on the front page of a magazine, but no one else thinks there's any reality to it...

[EstWRC]

“I think the way that he’s driving the car is exposing [an issue], but it’s exposing a weakness of the car, nothing else. Let’s not put it the other way around.

“The first thing we need to do is to fix that weakness, to fix that issue, which is an issue that’s been here for a while. But because the car was, in our opinion, so good in Monte Carlo, [Tänak] was capable of pushing certain areas that he was not pushing two years ago when he was driving that same car with that same software.


https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/abite...nak-to-change/

[Mackie]

So, EP is going to participate in Safari Kenya. I was not expecting that, is it a sign that Sordo won't have many outings in 24?

[Eli]

So, EP is going to participate in Safari Kenya. I was not expecting that, is it a sign that Sordo won't have many outings in 24?

I think it was said about a month ago that Sordo would do 3-4 rallies and he himself (if I recall correctly, might be wrong) said he'd start in Portugal.