2026 WRC News & Rumours

[wyler]

Again no tarmac. Good luck getting full time factory seat with only 4 tarmac rallies almost 4 years ago in Rally2.

same here, agreed.
still rally1 are at the last season, so maybe no point to learn on that. still needs to develop tarmac, maybe there will be news later on. i've also read rumors about sesks in *porsche* from '27.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

https://planetemarcus.com/sesks-conf...temps-partiel/

En 2026, M-Sport va continuer son partenariat avec Sesks pour une saison partielle de sept épreuves dès la Suède le mois prochain, puis le Portugal, Grèce, Estonie, Finlande, Sardaigne et Arabie Saoudite.

English
https://www.wrc.com/en/news/sesks-pl...mpaign-in-2026

[rallyfiend]

same here, agreed.
still rally1 are at the last season, so maybe no point to learn on that. still needs to develop tarmac, maybe there will be news later on. i've also read rumors about sesks in *porsche* from '27.

I'm sure he'll still have a Rally2 programme - just like the last couple of years.

Agreed with wyler - absolutely zero point in getting experience in Rally1 on tarmac.

[deephouse]

It's the events where he should getting the experiance at. Monte, Canaries and also Croatia will be on 2027 calendar (and if I remeber correctly Japan too have contract to host the event that year also). The only new one will be Italy, but no one have experience on that.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

The WRC site says he'll also do selected ERC and National rallies. Maybe he should do tarmac ones to get experience instead of proving what we already know, that he's fast on gravel.

[PLuto]

The WRC site says he'll also do selected ERC and National rallies. Maybe he should do tarmac ones to get experience instead of proving what we already know, that he's fast on gravel.

Current plan of starts in ERC is Scandinavia and Fafe, only two current ERC gravel events...

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Current plan of starts in ERC is Scandinavia and Fafe, only two current ERC gravel events...

Thanks for the info, PLuto.

So it seems Sesks is looking to progress in WRC via good gravel results giving him a high profile, rather than showing he's an all-round package (tarmac & gravel).

Time will tell if this pays off.

[wyler]

Thanks for the info, PLuto.

So it seems Sesks is looking to progress in WRC via good gravel results giving him a high profile, rather than showing he's an all-round package (tarmac & gravel).

Time will tell if this pays off.

looks a bit like solberg, but he had rx tarmac.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

looks a bit like solberg, but he had rx tarmac.

Solberg has also been doing many of the tarmac events in WRC, just not choosing to score WRC2 points in them.