How to best keep Rally Car cost down ?

[jonkka]

I think you forgot Toyota though Toyota were competing since the 80's

Toyota got banned after 1995 turbo scandal and only returned in 1997 for selected events and in 1998 for full season. So, as I was referring to full works teams in 1997 and not TTE's competition in it's entirety, comparison is still valid.

Besides, Toyota Team Europe has been competing since 1970's, under various names.

You could argue that it was the FIA mismanaging the sport that meant none of these new manufacturers came in stayed.

Toyota left to move to F1, Seat and Hyundai left because their results did not meet executive's expectations (Hyundai also had some argument with MSD but that's more a result than a cause), Mitsubishi was in financial difficulties as a company.

Skoda and especially Peugeot can partly blame their departure to rules and/or FIA inflexibility.

[OldF]

Jwrc season costs aproximatly 300 000euros.

Then it's cheaper than a season in PWRC. Juho Hänninen's PWRC budget for this year was 500.000 euros, which didn’t include the car.