WRC mainclass from 2027

[Fast Eddie WRC]

DR's point is the i20 N went out of production a few years ago. They can and probably will extend the homologation, but that is hardly a boon for WRC unless it becomes a historic championship.

The i20N N may have gone off sale in Europe but its still on sale in Australasia.

And if the spaceframe is so cheap and easy, Hyundai still dont build one due to:

"...the running cost. It’s maybe OK to build a car for €345,000 euros, but maybe on those €345,000 cars, if a door costs €10,000, this is not acceptable in the customer world. And this is really what we need to pay attention to. What will be the price for the dampers? For the under-protection of the car? We consume all those parts quite a lot on Rally2. And we have to be cost efficient."

[WRCStan]

The i20N N may have gone off sale in Europe but its still on sale in Australasia.

Ok thanks.

[Steve Boyd]

There's no FIA source I can find directly

That's the problem with all of this. It's all "he said that she said that somebody in the next street heard that ......"

We're relying on sports journo's with no technical background relaying what the FIA publicity people say. The actual technical regulations are often hidden from us because they're in things like homologation application forms that are only available to manufacturers. Without direct sight of those rules it's all guesswork - and pretty annoying!