World Rallycross Championship a.k.a RALLYX

[rallyfiend]

im 100% happier now. hope no clashes with rallyx too. good! it is a niche sport, with not much money, its pointless to keep pretending it is a world championship without all the money from vw/audi/ford/peugeot/sponsors/f1 track promoters...

Did that money EVER exist?

Seems every promoter - including now the FIA - has lost so much money on this crap with no path to profit they've decided to walk away....

[Fast Eddie WRC]

What's the significance of mentioning Rally2s and 4s?

The WRC2027 Car will be at Rally2 power and these Cars are to be the top class in WRX too. Presumably they were checking the speed of a current Rally2 against the current RX1 Cars.

Rally4 Cars are maybe for a lower class in RX.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Turning WRX back to ERX is really good step. But being ICE exclusive from next season a huge FU to all teams and drivers who invested €400 000 just for the powertrain. Now they'll have to invest more money to rebuild the car back to the ICE powertrain. They just should have keep all cars until the regulation changes. I wouldn't be surprised if Volvo CE or Hansens would just withdraw until 2028.

I have to agree. The main (basically only) RX Team are all EV this year and now they have to go back to ICE !

Why on earth have they done this and not just waited until the new Car regs ? The extra cost and waste of previous spending makes no sense.

[saco0o]

Did that money EVER exist?
Seems every promoter - including now the FIA - has lost so much money on this crap with no path to profit they've decided to walk away....

haha thats the point. when they were trying to make it a global championship there were investors believing it was possible: big sponsors, f1 track promoters, manufacturers. i love this sport but lets be honest, there was no RoI. it is just a niche thing after all. it took them 2 or 3 years to realize that (probably contracts with fines tbf) but eventually they all jumped out of that sinking boat. then came the pandemic.

but the most unexplainable thing for me was HOW ON HELL did redbull decided to take over a sport that brought NO RoI to anyone, put it behind a pay wall (???)... and then how the FIA believed having electric cars would be a good idea on a sport that brought NO RoI to anyone? on a sport that was build on "lets give these rich brits & scandinavian blokes a place for them to race their crappy cars". (no offense, thats literally one of my favorite sports hehe) this is beyond my imagination. i can only guess some kind of money laundering... ??

but anyway. going back to be an european championship is the right move. 100% (hope they grow up the rumored 6 events! even autocross is having 10 races/season). sure, have a "world cup' race or two overseas for the top guys who have more money, sure. but thats it. it is not a global championship. im honestly more excited than ever with this. hope they keep the broadcast haha

[saco0o]

What's the significance of mentioning Rally2s and 4s?

fia is trying to make rally2 (and wrc27) and rally4 even more interesting by having them also competing in national and regional rallycross. top eurorx cars would probably be rally2s and wrc27 cars but with the more powerfull rx engines (normally built by pipo, mountaine (idk how to write it), omse, oreca)