2025 WRC News & Rumours

**Fast Eddie WRC** · 20th March 2025, 09:11

Originally Posted by Tauri_J

Stop with the pipe dream nonsense. One day its Ford coming back, then its Subaru, Lancia, Skoda, Opel etc. Why would any new manufacturer join this series?? Its a black hole of a series which sucks all the money in and doesnt give anything back.

Theres more chance of Ford coming back full-time for a year than the other Manufacturers you mentioned joining... now that is a dream.

**Andre Oliveira** · 20th March 2025, 12:53

Malcolm will get another magic moment and hire Neuville

**macebig** · 21st March 2025, 08:53

Yeah, Hyundai is as good as gone. Give 2 years to the Rally 2s, imo. And open up the championship. No set teams, no nominations,nothing. Top 2 drivers of any manufacturer score points. That will instantly bring Skoda and Citroen back, allow Hyundai to maintain presence and let Toyota and Ford continue their involvement.

**wyler** · 21st March 2025, 09:53

Originally Posted by macebig

Yeah, Hyundai is as good as gone. Give 2 years to the Rally 2s, imo. And open up the championship. No set teams, no nominations,nothing. Top 2 drivers of any manufacturer score points. That will instantly bring Skoda and Citroen back, allow Hyundai to maintain presence and let Toyota and Ford continue their involvement.

and be a double of erc, with the same results in term of roi. Manufacturers will not invest money in it; they will just sell cars around.

**macebig** · 21st March 2025, 13:16

There are no manufacturers left,icymi. Even Toyota only continues because of Akio Toyoda's will. The rest of the board is against the WRC program.

**saco0o** · 21st March 2025, 17:27

hmmmm weird.
oh, btw... when does redbull gmbh contract with FIA/WRC ends? they are selling the wrc promoter but isnt kinda obvious that the other interested promoters would just wait until the contract is gone to sign up for a cheaper price?

**Eli** · 21st March 2025, 19:25

Remember there were talks P1 fuels are going bankrupt & that Aramco would come instead starting next month? Well...guess what? Total Energies (what used to be Total up until 2021) will be the new fuel suppliers going forward: https://www.autosport.com/wrc/news/f...705741/...Call me optimistic but maybe having a french fuel supplier might fuel (sorry, pun intended) a french manufacturer down the line...(?)

**deephouse** · 22nd March 2025, 05:01

Citroen could come back, now they will not have excuse of not having any driver to choose from.

**M3 Jambo** · 22nd March 2025, 06:11

Originally Posted by macebig

There are no manufacturers left,icymi. Even Toyota only continues because of Akio Toyoda's will. The rest of the board is against the WRC program.

Intersting POV, are you on the Toyota board or friends with senior management?

**PLuto** · 22nd March 2025, 10:09

But you all who loves coming Rally2 cars are forgotting one thing. Most of the Rally2 programmes are customer based. And more important thing - this three current Rally1 manufactures are bringing huge money, from which WRC Promoter and FIA are living. If they will loose manufacturers, they will loose their money. I am not sure if championship can survive without money from manufacturers...