Nowadays WRC rallies aren’t challenging enough at the eyes of common public. The 9 to 5 schedule and the clover leaf itinerary (implemented by the mandatory use of single service areas) made WRC boring and tasteless.

The adventurous side of rallying has been lost and surely the VW/RB final day shootout plan will make things even worse, simply because it’ll put WRC even further from its original spirit.

We don’t need to be 100% purist and get back the classic layouts, but somehow there should be ways to WRC become again a physically demanding challenge for drivers and machines with huge popular recognition.

Avoiding an overall cost escalate, we could have 8 to 10 transnational rallies, without schedule restrictions, using flexible service areas and different road surfaces, instead of the current 13/14 regionally based lookalike events.

A hypothetical Lisboa-Madrid rally sounds much more appealing than nowadays algarve’s or catalunya’s WRC loops and shouldn’t be over-priced for organizers and competitors.