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Thread: WRC main class in 2025
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17th January 2024, 14:03 #561
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are the rich gentlemen the best GT drivers of the world such as Marciello, Vanthoor, Gounon, Engel, Stolz, Bortolotti, Caldarelli etc? The WEC GT class could only dream such competition in the past years and apart from Estre, Pier Guidi and maybe Makowiecki, the other WEC factory drivers were not on that level at all.
bare minimum of media coverage? They stream everything for free... what should we say about WRC, or WEC, or the old WTCR? All world championships of their category, and yet...
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17th January 2024, 14:16 #562
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Regardless of the quality, if so many rich gentlemen are falling over themselves to spend money with SRO, they must be doing something right, all the more so if that is happening with 'zero spectators' and 'bare minimum of media coverage'. Rallying could do with learning lessons there.
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17th January 2024, 14:44 #563
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It can be the greatest motorsport in the world.
No one knows because no one is watching it...
I would never deny the problems with WRC, but I think SRO is not the best comparison.
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17th January 2024, 15:31 #564
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17th January 2024, 15:38 #565
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The problem with privateer-oriented series is that they bring an order of magnitude lesser money to the series hence why if WRC decides to ignore the manufacturers and go full privateer it will disappear as a major motorsport. With the manufacturer's money gone the all live production will be gone, the major global sponsors will be gone, after that the state-funding will be largely gone and we will end with another ERC because nobody will go outside Europe anyway.
For me the WRC can survive only with the manufacturers. Still the series shall allow private tuners to homologate their cars. Now when we have the spaceframes there is not even a need to pretend that such car represents any manufacturer. They can run under their own banner like in Dakar.Last edited by Mirek; 17th January 2024 at 18:44.
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17th January 2024, 15:54 #566
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Besides Dakar, WRX is another example where it's a mix of works or semiworks, plus some independent tuners and some private teams.
Indeed it has to be more open both for independents building cars and in my opinion also allow smaller teams to run cars as it happened until 2017. For some reason at that point they decided to be a closed shop. I think that's a mistake... As for going full private I'm not sure that's the solution for WRC, even if there are examples where it works. The WRC needs to find their own path. Unfortunately I feel they are too closed minded to find something but we'll see.
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17th January 2024, 15:58 #567
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17th January 2024, 16:15 #568
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17th January 2024, 16:50 #569
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WRC needs to disengage themselves from manufacturers. They were never the driving force behind the championship until recently. It was always individuals pushing the sport ahead and not corporate. Hell, it's still true today. Without Malcolm Wilson and Akio Toyoda, there is no WRC as we currently know it.
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17th January 2024, 17:18 #570
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