WRC Calendar 2025

[deephouse]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_W...y_Championship, it pretty much says it all. Monte will be included, I'm sure.

[Sulland]

Monte Carlo (should be finalised), Sweden, (I think) Kenya, Canary Islands, Portugal, Italy-Sardgena, Greece, Estonia(pretty much confirmed), Finland, Paraguay,Chile, Central European, Japan, Saudi Arabia. Give or take

I am against all the "new" countries.
Very few of them will be able to get a larger field than the normal rally1 and rally2 contracted crews. It will probably be to expensive for locals to compete, so small fields.

[WRCStan]

Unpredictable weather is nice, but not so nice when stages get canceled.
No need to go back a long time... ERC Fafe gave plenty of proof that having an early round in this area can be a wrong choice.
I don't see it being earlier than April at best.

Aim for predictable weather than. Come a bit further north maybe, very little chance it'd be the holiday resort/southern European rallies.

Best chance would be if Safari upped the milage and ran over an extra day or two. We need more variable weather on the gravel rounds. Poland/Estonia/Latvia/Finland and Portugal/Italy/Greece in the sun are all too similar for my liking.

[Eli]

I am against all the "new" countries.
Very few of them will be able to get a larger field than the normal rally1 and rally2 contracted crews. It will probably be to expensive for locals to compete, so small fields.

I would have Argentina, Australia, Wales, Deutschland, Corsica back in a heartbeat but like it has been said here time and again, Money talks. I mean, did the organisers pay their own people their salaries in Kenya this year? Are they still having the event next year? I guess that and the fact Saudi Arabia are in until 2035(!) tells you what you need to know…

[WRCStan]

WRC is too heavy on gravel, ERC too heavy on tarmac. Solution = swap gravel for gravel, tarmac for tarmac. Maybe could've been addressed.

[deephouse]

The calendar should consist all continents of the world, have 7 gravel, 4 tarmac, 1 snow, 2 mixed events (monte-tarmac/snow and one gravel/tarmac). It should be spread at least like that, that it isn't only gravel or tarmac events one after another. The dates for some should be moving in the season, where there is a great chance of desired weather conditions, or having enough snow or not too hot like Kenya or Saudi. Also the road should be somewhere smooth, somewhere rough, somewhere nice tarmac, somewhere bad as shit.

I would personal throw out some european events and bring America and Aus or NZ back. Some countries could link their rallies like CER or rotate like Latvia/Estonia. That way all would get one piece of cake.

[MartijnS]

Read somewhere that Greece might be from Loutrake again next year. The last used hotel as HQ is ‘fully’ booked only in the week from 23-30 June next year. Suspicious

[Tauri_J]

Stop with mixed event wishes.

They were ditched for a reason

[J4MIE]

I would have Argentina, Australia, Wales, Deutschland, Corsica back in a heartbeat but like it has been said here time and again, Money talks. I mean, did the organisers pay their own people their salaries in Kenya this year? Are they still having the event next year? I guess that and the fact Saudi Arabia are in until 2035(!) tells you what you need to know…

It is in, but think the first issue for the Safari is the current political situation where basically the whole cabinet was sacked by the president. A CS for sports will need to be nominated and approved before anything can begin to be looked at, never mind approved or signed off. I think part of the delays with stuff this year (on the government side of things) was that nothing was looked at until start of January.

I am against all the "new" countries.
Very few of them will be able to get a larger field than the normal rally1 and rally2 contracted crews. It will probably be to expensive for locals to compete, so small fields.

That’s always been the case for more exotic events, and you just have to look at the reduction in national crews entering. I think especially after the first year enthusiasm wears off, the high cost of competing is too much for a lot of crews. I think Paraguay is a fairly popular event already so should have locals competing, maybe some South Americans can do both that and Chile? Saudi will be a MERC round so will bring a few Rally2 crews.

Renember though that the promotors, organisers and most people on here simply couldn’t care less about those outside Rally1 & Rally2 crews, nobody else exists past them on the entry list - a lot of people on here also complain about events with low entry numbers!!

[Dimitris]

Read somewhere that Greece might be from Loutrake again next year. The last used hotel as HQ is ‘fully’ booked only in the week from 23-30 June next year. Suspicious

I can neither confirm nor deny these rumours 👀