2026 WRC News & Rumours

[denkimi]

Who is this guy on FB ? Nowhere else is reporting this from Andrew Wheatley.

I reckon its clickbait and his interpretation that the i20 Rally2 is a customer car and will remain so. Nothing is confirmed.

He's a well known belgian rally journalist. Has been for 30 years or more.
I'd say he's pretty reliable.

https://youtu.be/cnr1fD_q1bo?is=vlQH9qW9VDqebL2I
https://youtu.be/HOuInuCJQK8?is=CbfC_JVSM3tXNtJt

[Fast Eddie WRC]

He's a well known belgian rally journalist. Has been for 30 years or more.
I'd say he's pretty reliable.

https://youtu.be/cnr1fD_q1bo?is=vlQH9qW9VDqebL2I
https://youtu.be/HOuInuCJQK8?is=CbfC_JVSM3tXNtJt

The guy that was saying at Safari Rally the other year that Hyundai were quitting ?

[saco0o]

my favorite AI post was a few years ago. an article saying evans would leave wrc to focus on his UFC campaign. i think the article was about an open seat at toyota for the next season (maybe 2024, i dont remember)

[WRCStan]

my favorite AI post was a few years ago. an article saying evans would leave wrc to focus on his UFC campaign. i think the article was about an open seat at toyota for the next season (maybe 2024, i dont remember)

https://speed.dhpplant.com/ufc-elfyn...-to-ufc-bonie/

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Petter Solberg @Petter_Solberg

!!! Don’t believe everything you read online! 👀 There are so many fake news pages using AI pictures on social media now sharing completely fake stories - including ‘WRC Rally Astralis’, ‘WRC Racing Track’, ‘Gravel Kings’ and ‘WRC Apex Hunters’ !!!

Please unfollow them - everything on those pages is completely made up, and a lot of it is harmful! For anyone who has seen any of those pages recently: no, Pernilla is not unwell and Oliver isn’t retiring at the end of the season… it’s all just lies to get attention, so please don’t give them any.

If in doubt, always check official driver, team, WRC and known media accounts to verify if something is true. Thank you.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Elfyn Evans, Jon Armstrong and Romet Jürgenson will all compete in Scotland this August in preparation for next year's WRC event:

https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/evans...rampian-rally/

[spyros]

Good morning, I don't know if you read this but I find Sainz's idea for Formula 1 amazing and it could easily be applied to the wrc. 14 races and the drivers will do 2-3 or as many as they need depending on each team.

[Eli]

Good morning, I don't know if you read this but I find Sainz's idea for Formula 1 amazing and it could easily be applied to the wrc. 14 races and the drivers will do 2-3 or as many as they need depending on each team.

2-3 out of 14? that sounds odd to say the least, in other news, WMSC have a meeting today, I am curious if will get any sort of news for next year be it the promoter or the calendar or anything really.

[Mark]

Good morning, I don't know if you read this but I find Sainz's idea for Formula 1 amazing and it could easily be applied to the wrc. 14 races and the drivers will do 2-3 or as many as they need depending on each team.

Just Sainz venting about the Williams being crap. It would probably work better in rally than F1 but that is to say an upgrade to 'won't work' from 'definitely won't work'.

[deephouse]

2-3 out of 14? that sounds odd to say the least, in other news, WMSC have a meeting today, I am curious if will get any sort of news for next year be it the promoter or the calendar or anything really.

Don't expect any news regarding WRC. They "like" to postpone everything about this sport.

About this idea of whatever number of events is not good. This only works in WRC2 and just because nobody there could do a whole season, it's damn too expensive. If that would be included in main WRC category, there would be instantly many Ogier's. Everybody would lobby for some events and probably 1 or two events would be completely ignored by everyone.