Quite a bit of snow/rain in forecast at the moment, looks quite promissing!
One hybrid unit was estimated around 150.000€, so don't know where did you get that numbers for the car without that. If that was the real price of the car, believe me, there weren't so much talk...
Top young drivers can showcase themselves in WRC2 cars and much more cheaply (relatively). There's really no need to spend the crazy sums on a Rally 1 drive, even though us fans like to see them.
Martins Sesks