About cancellation of ERC events you are right, unlike the WRC events which remain the same year after year, without much of a change, ERC has many unproven events next to some "classic" rallies (Ypres, Barum, Corsica, Valais). The main problem of ERC at this particular moment is that the S2000 cars are outdated and the R5 cars are not quite there yet. I expect national importers to support some projects again next year, as we have seen during the great "IRC" years.

About WRC2 you are right, this year's championship is quite good (last year was quite a disaster in my opinion), anyway I don't like the system of choosing half of the events and being able to avoid competing directly against your biggest opponents, it could make it a meaningless title in my opinion, if some slower driver wins because he is doing other events than the faster guys...

Concerning return things are different from country to country (like in one country Dakar is a big thing while in another country it's almost invisible in media), but I dare to say that newspapers here have as much news of an ERC event as of a WRC event. When Neuville was in ERC we were seeing as much, if not more news about him than we see now, while he is in WRC... While I see something being written about Junior ERC or the previous 2WD Cup or Production cup, things such as WRC2, WRC3, JWRC and Dmack Trophy seem to be completely ignored in media (a bit like F1 is completely seperated from all side-events and nothing is written about those either). Visibility of WRC on TV is 0, nothing, you can only see it on a paychannel here. And again the lower categories are completely ignored on TV... Live-tv of WRC is non-existant for me. I'm not going to spend my time on a website clicking away banners while a low-quality stream is playing and buffering every 2 minutes, I'm probably crazy but not that crazy... With ERC/IRC there's Eurosport to watch, and during the "good years" with Loix and/or Neuville competing, we could see it on national tv as well. Also important is that the footage of ERC is much more exciting to watch than what the promotors of WRC produce. Although the quality of their images is a bit better and looks more professional, it's just boring to watch.

Don't understand me wrong. I like rallying, visit an average of 25 events/year, on regional, national and international level. Throughout the years I visited more than half of the different WRC events on the calendar. And I hope the best for the future of WRC, as the WRC contains the nicest events. But if you are being honest, you can't deny that the promotor of WRC is failing at their work, on many different aspects. There are so many examples of how things can be done better... And until those things are solved, I'm sure that ERC provides a better return for private competitors, on a smaller area but with a bigger impact.