WRC Croatia 2026

**WRCStan** · Today, 17:29

Originally Posted by denkimi

All you need to avoid that is have every car of a manufacturer be able to score points for them. It would encourage them to support privateers if they want to win the title.

Possible, but unlikely to be anybody's preference as long as there's a promoter in place and an FIA president keen on commercial/financial viability.

**Eli** · Today, 18:25

Originally Posted by Sulland

Why can it be that there is only 252 posts on a wrc rally thread.

A few years ago we normally had over 1000 posts, and on the two first rallies of each season there could be 3-4000.
Is it live TV that is to blame?

Have to say that this time round I was pretty enticed with the rally so I watched it more than actually being on the forum and also once I saw less people commenting here it made me as a result comment (relatively) less. And there’s no sugar coating it, the lack of a 4th manufacturer is a big hit just as having a bad promoter…this is our second time in 10 years we’re going into a new set of regulations and yet..we have one manufacturer already almost out the door before a new tuner(?) arrives. Do you guys remember 10 years ago when Toyota already announced in July of 2015 that they’ll be entering the championship in ‘17 and we thought we’d see them fight it out with VW, Citroen, Hyundai and M-Sport? Does it look right now as if any manufacturer from Europe or Asia are coming to this series? I think that says a lot about the promoter but also about the car industry which are completely lost by the state of things. The only bright side I see atm is countries wanting to enter the championship, and seeing Scotland back next year, but it won’t last if the grim state of the championship will continue and this horrid demoter who doesn’t have a clue of how to promote this sport; the only good thing I can mention from that aspect is they (Finally!!!) added those cool on the tarmac cameras for the live action, more or that please!! and while we’re at it, please replace Mike Chen, he’s become unbearable at this point, the only saving grace is the no audio option which I’ve been using since Monte-Carlo.