WRC mainclass from 2027

[WRCStan]

I think you're right. As I see it there will be WRC1 for WRC27 & Rally2 cars with a high registration fee and full TV coverage, having to do all events (like now but with different cars) and WRC2 for Rally2 cars with a lower registration fee, a choice of fewer events and little or no TV coverage.

Excluding WRC27 is not encouraging uptake.

[WRCStan]

A shame given the 2027 change and the opportunity to get better publicity for the Skoda brand, rather than just as a good rally car builder.

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[Steve Boyd]

Excluding WRC27 is not encouraging uptake.

I'm not sure that there will be enough of them next year so maybe it will be better to keep them at the top level for a year or two. When they become available second hand then certainly WRC2 should be opened up to allow both Rally2 and WRC27 cars.

[WRCStan]

I'm not sure that there will be enough of them next year so maybe it will be better to keep them at the top level for a year or two. When they become available second hand then certainly WRC2 should be opened up to allow both Rally2 and WRC27 cars.

There's only one level with these two, and there's not really such a thing as WRC1, only what is the current manufacturers championship. WRC1 WDC/WCC are open to everybody who starts in all classes and should remain so.

The whole point of this was to get the Rally2s into the top level, so keeping a Rally2 based WRC2 makes a mockery of it all. It's a proposed top class WRC1 and WRC2 muddier than WRC2/3 in 2020 which nobody cared for having split. But even when your new WRC2 opens to WRC27 cars, what's it then for other than only 7 events counting when the calendar is 14? Even PWRC and SWRC had lower classes.

I think maybe there's a World title for Constructors and a Cup for Rally2 Teams, because the driver pool contenders will still be split across the two regs (open WDC/WCC). Can't see them doing a World Title for Teams if it's only Rally2 but maybe they'll want a mixed Teams' title for the depth of field for a year or three.

*WDC
*WCC

Likely
*World Rally Championship for Constructors / World Rally Championship for Teams (If allowing for non-constructor WRC27 teams)
**WRC Cup for Teams (Rally2 )
But possibly:
*World Rally Championship for Teams (WRC27, Rally2 and otherwise)

Retain:
WRC3
JWRC
Masters Cup (open)
Challenger Cup (open)

If additional spice needed:
European Cup
Gravel Cup
Tarmac Cup