WRC mainclass from 2027

[WRCStan]

Am I missing something here ? I read "manufacturers have to commit to 14 rounds to get the kit homologation". It does not mean you have to run a 2 drivers team for 14 rounds. You could as well field a 2 cars team in every rounds with rotating drivers. Toksport is not far from doing this for the past few seasons... For others, you could just drop the name of your team to any other local team to make it look like you entered. Back to the 70's, an importer/local team deputizing for the works team...

Need the regs of the new constructor's championship, but likely there would need to be an entry in the manufacturer's name to achieve homologation, and the entry should come with a manufacturer's price tag. How the team manifests is not important as deals can be done. The Toksport WRC2 effort avoids Skoda in a team name as a manufacturer now.

And then once the car is homologated, would anything prevent any other user/customer to fielding a (kit) car under his name for a single odd event ? This would be similar to the early WRC (golden) days. Homologation from a factory, then anyone could run its own Impreza WRC or Escort WRC under its own team, for one-off events. With a cheap and easy to bolt aero kit, owner could event bolt/unbolt the kit to switch from local/ERC to WRC events. If true, this would be brilliant.

Probably not, who would want to? Maybe WRC2 remains for Rally2-sans-wrc-kit.

Because if this is not the case, as was said above, we're back with 2-3 teams as today, so the notion of increased competition is daft.

Yes. But at least there will be 2-3 teams. The increased competition is in any 1 rally, not the season long championship.

[deephouse]

And how will that helping championship if Toyota will once again have advantage. Of course they are not to blame but in this stage wouldn't be logical to postpone everything until at least 2 or three teams will have WRC27 ready?

[WRCStan]

And how will that helping championship if Toyota will once again have advantage. Of course they are not to blame but in this stage wouldn't be logical to postpone everything until at least 2 or three teams will have WRC27 ready?

To replace with what? Toyota ruled out Rally2-WRC-kit and Rally2. Nobody wants Rally2.

There is 1 Rally2-WRC-kit team in M-Sport, and let's say 2 with Lancia.

[Ferranis]

That would make sense, so we are definitely not doing that!

The promotion for monte next year will be funny too. You know the picture they make with the cars of the WRC1 teams?

You will have: The 27 Toyota, maybe the Rally2 Fiesta with some funny bolt on aero and a regular a** Rally2 I20

[WRCStan]

That would make sense, so we are definitely not doing that!

The promotion for monte next year will be funny too. You know the picture they make with the cars of the WRC1 teams?

You will have: The 27 Toyota, maybe the Rally2 Fiesta with some funny bolt on aero and a regular a** Rally2 I20

Why would you have a Hyundai there?

[Ferranis]

Why would you have a Hyundai there?

For comedic value, mostly (the joke is better with them there)

[deephouse]

Hyundai could show up with their current Rally1 car and maybe, just maybe be enough competitive against Toyota.

[Ferranis]

Hyundai could show up with their current Rally1 car and maybe, just maybe be enough competitive against Toyota.

I unironically expect an announcement in the next few months that current Rally1 with smaller restrictor can compete too

[Mark]

The Toyota Monte Carlo Rally of Toyota sponsored by Toyota?