2025 WRC News & Rumours

[saco0o]

hope ewrc results keep track of their times cuz i bet we are not going to find anything on wrc official

[Steve Boyd]

But they could change it to be Hydrogen powered in future if that's what they want to promote.

I'd be interested to know the difference in power output of the same capacity ICE engine run on petrol compared with hydrogen. If both fuels are allowed in ICE engines in future will we need some form of power equalization between them, like different boost pressures or different restrictor diameters?

[BleAivano]

Well, hope it´s not going same way as rights for football, etz... Making you put five times the money spent today, to be able to watch rallies in the future.

There are other interested in buying too, one from Italy which is Prada heir Lorentzo Bertelli and one from Saudi Arabia which consists of a group of undisclosed business men from SA . https://www.emotorsport.se/nyheter.p...yhets_id=27256

[Doon]

Any news about the 2026 calender? WRC seems to be very slow compared to other series.

What I really want to know is the date for Rally Croatia 2026 as I've seen some decent flights and want to make a family holiday of it.

[Eli]

Any news about the 2026 calender? WRC seems to be very slow compared to other series.

What I really want to know is the date for Rally Croatia 2026 as I've seen some decent flights and want to make a family holiday of it.

They were supposed to release it in July, but due to USA (apparentaly), it's delayed, they want stability in the calendar but if I'd had to guess, Croatia will probably take it's usual April slot, I think that's also what they said when they confirmed that this year they'll be in October in the ERC and then back to the WRC as they were, but I may be wrong; and yes, WRC calendar is always the slowest of the bunch, even when the entirety of the last decade (2010-2019) they barely made any changes for their 13 events.

[WRCStan]

Rally Saudi will run Wednesday (SSS) to Saturday.

[Eli]

Anyone has any news regarding next year's calendar? I mean, most (if not all) events are signed...so if we know USA won't make it...can't they at least publish a draft calendar?

[BleAivano]

It seems Aberdeen is interested in hosting a WRC round from 2027 to 2029. The article is perhaps a quite optimistic IMO, but personally quite not convinced. Some quotes below.

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Official bid being prepared to bring World Rally Championships to Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire and Moray

This could see the racing event be secured for three years starting from 2027.

Aberdeen council chiefs are revving up to bring the World Rally Championships to the north-east for the first time – with an official bid poised to be submitted.

And next week council finance bosses could move a step closer to landing the lucrative event with a formal bid being prepared.

There are also suggestions that money from a proposed tourist tax could help to fund the event.

Aren't the last two quotes a bit contradictory? Isn't tourist tax is a way to prevent being overwhelmed by tourists? In that case they want to use money from an anti tourist tax to host an event in a way to bring in more tourists? if so, I do like the logic.


https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp...53054651388736

[WRCStan]

Anyone has any news regarding next year's calendar? I mean, most (if not all) events are signed...so if we know USA won't make it...can't they at least publish a draft calendar?

They were supposed to release it in July, but due to USA (apparentaly), it's delayed, they want stability in the calendar but if I'd had to guess, Croatia will probably take it's usual April slot, I think that's also what they said when they confirmed that this year they'll be in October in the ERC and then back to the WRC as they were, but I may be wrong; and yes, WRC calendar is always the slowest of the bunch, even when the entirety of the last decade (2010-2019) they barely made any changes for their 13 events.

[Eli]

Speaking of the devil: https://www.wrc.com/en/news/2026-fia...nship-calendar
Instead of having a run of gravel events between April & October, from Estonia in July onwards, it’s gravel all the way.