Crystal ball predictions 2024

[EstWRC]

Now that the line-ups are almost all known, its time again

5 predictions per person (please exercise some self-discipline in sticking to just 5)
Predictions need to be specific/measurable
Award for most of 5 predictions correct
Honour for the most extreme prediction that turns out to be correct

Deadline is 24th January, the last day to put predictions is the day before Monte starts.

[Kras]

1. Tanak WDC
2. Neuville is the driver with most Sunday points accumulated
3. Katsuta will have zero podium finishes
4. Wrc2 is not won by a Toyota driver
5. Evans wins in Croatia

[Danny0405]

1. First podium for Fourmaux and at least 2 podiums for M-Sport but no one for Munster

2. At least 2 rallies with a Rally2 car in top 5 (ranking at the end of the rally, all days cumulated)

3. Ogier and Sordo retiring at the end of the year (not liking the point system especially for the Frenchman)

4. No podium for Mikkelsen

5. Toyota wins the manufacturer championship

[BleAivano]

1. New points system won't solve the problem that it is intended to solve.
2. Neuville WDC
3. Solberg will be top 6 in the accumulated WRC1/WRC2 standings
4. Neuville will win Monte Carlo
5. FIA+Promoter will come up with even more dodgy points rules at the end of the season.

[WRCStan]

1. New points system has fan approval by half way
2. Rally winners (crews) always score highest points
3. Six different rally winners
4. Neuville and Tanak become unmanageable in battle, both ignore team orders/instruction
5. Zero entries in a non-hybrid Rally1

[TWRC]

1. Neuville wins most rallies but not the title.
2. Rally2 cars will win more than 2 stages this year.
3. Toyota wins manu championship again, and Hyundai leaves.
4. Ogier wins Monte, but not more rallies.
5. I write this every year, and so far nothing happened, so let's try the opposite: no new manufacturers will want to join the WRC in the forseeable future.

["Username"]

1. Katsuta will get the first win and it will be in asphalt
2. Hyundai champ
3. Tänak champ
4. Munster starts having crashes at almost every rally
5. Rova returns before Poland rally to help Toyota cause Evans is useless.

[HKSjbg]

1. Rally Latvia will have the shortest achieved itinerary of the year i.e. taking into account any stage cancellations

2. Top 3 of the part-time drivers will be (in this order) Rovanperä, Ogier, Mikkelsen

3. Rovanperä will still finish 4th or higher overall in the WDC

4. Evans won’t be WDC

5. Rally Japan will have 3 or more Rally2s finish in the overall classification top 10

[Maui J.]

1. Katsuta wins a round.
2. Petter Solberg announces a partnership with a manufacturer and will start building the cars.
3. Neuville finally wins WDC.
4. Solberg Junior gets at least 1 R1 drive.
5. MSport fail to podium

[skarderud]

1 Tanak WDC

2 Hyundai WTC

3 Mikkelsen win 1

4 New rules for Rally1 from 2026, 1 new manu joins

5 M-sport starts talks with other manu for Rally1

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[Sulland]

1. New point system is ditched either half way, or by end of season.
2. Evans WDC
3. Toyota WMC
4. Solberg wins WRC2, Pajari number 2.
5. 2024 season even worse than 2023 for M-Sport Ford. Malcolm announces coop with new manufacrurer.

[Managarium]

1. Neuville WDC

2. Toyota WMC

3. Ogier finally retires

4. Fourmaux will at least five times crash Puma

5. Toyota driver will be a WRC2 champion

[240RS]

1. Thierry Neuville comes good and takes his first WDC.
2. Toyota easily win the Manufacturers' title.
3. Rovanpera and Ogier dominate the gravel rounds they start.
4. Rally2 bossed by Toyotas, but Solberg wins title.
5. A championship round in the U.S announced for 2025

[Sal yet again]

1. Evans WRC Champion driver

2. Hyundai WRC Champion manufacturer

3. A WRC 2 to finish on the overall podium at least once during the '24 season

4. M-Sport Ford fail to have an R1 car finish an event in at least 50% of the rallies

5. Ireland and the USA come up with the money to host rounds in '25

[mknight]

1. Toyota manu champ
2. Neuville not champ
3. Max 1 podium for MSport
4. Katsuta worst scoring Toyota/Hyundai driver (points for 3rd Hyundai car combined)
5. Toyota driver won't win WRC2

[Corcaíoch]

1. Neuville - WDC
2. Toyota win the manufacturers championship
3. Fourmaux gets his first podium
4. Solberg wins WRC2
5. Rovanpera wins in Finland

[becher]

1. Rovanperä finishes 3rd in the standings.
2.Toyota manufacturer champion.
3. Neuville drivers champion.
4. M Sport no more than two podiums.
5.Sordo announces his retirement in Portugal.

[Rallyper]

1. One event will have Rally3 car in top ten.
2. Solberg top five at least once.
3. Mikkelsen on podium more than one time
4. Tanak WDC
5. Toyota takes manu title.

[meh]

1. From half of the season, Toyota is in panic mode and brags Ogier and/or Rovanperä to do more rallies.
2. Still no team orders from Toyota - Evans can not get the title, because team-mates Ogier and Rovanperä are "robbing" too many points from better start positions (gravel rallies).
3. Titles for Tänak and Hyundai
4. Some first-time rally winner in RC2, but not in RC1
5. At least 2 new names get RC1 start

[Rallyest]

1. Tänak WDC
2. Mikkelsen wont win a single rally
3. Solberg to finish in top 5 with RC2 cari atleast once'
4. No podiums for Fourmaux
5. Solberg WRC 2 champion

[ouvreur]

1. Fourmaux to finish on the podium more than once.
2. Rovenpera to win three rallies.
3. Hyundai will not win either drivers or manufacturers title.
4. Greensmith to win WRC2.
5. Hyundai to use at least one additional driver in Rally1 than the 5 they've already announced.

[seb_sh]

1. Only Tanak, Evans and Neuville finish ahead of Ogier and Rovanpera in the overall standings
2. The rally winner takes home fewer points that someone else from at least 2 rallies
3. Fourmaux gets at least 2 podiums
4. Fourmaux crashes in 3 or fewer rallies
5. Split championship (WDC is not driving for the WCC)

[focus206]

1 - Evans wins the title thanks to Toyota's better reliability and teammates gifting him points
2 - However, Hyundai wins the manufacturer title because Katsuta doesn't score enough points
3 - No Hyundai, Ford nor Volkswagen top the RC2 class in any round
4 - Either Tanak or Neuville leave Hyundai at the end of the year
5 - One podium for Fourmaux, no podiums for Munster

[EstWRC]

1. Fourmaux out of nowhere a serious title contender
2. Kalle wins all of the rounds he participates and doesnt finish far off from the title
3. Tänak to call it quits at the end of the year
4. Evans crashes out on the final round and loses the title again because of that
5. 90% of the forum members continuing to spam different threads how Rally2 is the only right choice

[CeskyOndra]

1. Toyota will be unbeatable with Ogier and Kalle and get another Manufacturer Title
2. At least 2 Hyundai cars will retire on Safari due to technical issues :(
3. Toyota will be quite a disaster in Rally2
4. Neuville and Ogier will dominate on tarmac events
5. Tanak will steal a win from Kalle in Finland

[rp]

1. Toyota will win Manufacturer title
2. Tänak WRC Champion
3. Fourmaux will take his 1st podium place
4. Rovanperä will take a dominant win in Latvia
5. Katsuta will win Rally Japan

[flat_right]

1. Tänak drivers champ
2. Hyundai manus champ
3. M-Sport will have 3 podiums
4. Kalle still won't win in Finland
5. Fourmaux will have more points than Katsuta in the end of the year

[Eli]

Okay, let's make this a little more interesting for this year:
1. Toyota wins manufacturer title
2. Katsuta swaps places with Pajari for Rally Finland.
3. Rovanperä wins Finland.
4. Tänak has the same number of wins as Neuville.
5. Saudi Arabia announced as season finale instead of Japan for 2025.

[denkimi]

1- toyota manufacturers champion
2- neuville driver champion
3- neuville retires after becoming champion
4- munster beats fourmeaux
5-tanak wins Finland