OK, the
rally working group involving Richards and Reid was announced during the Baku meet. It will cover issues beyond WRC to grassroots rallying.
https://www.fia.com/news/fia-statement-future-rallying
WMSC discusses and approves/rejects motions proposed to it, including all championship or discipline rules. They also approved the rule change at the Baku meet. No way the new working group invented and thrashed through this change, to propose it to the WMSC, to discuss, to vote on, within those days. After WMSC ratified the system change idea it said a
WMSC Task Force was responsible for setting the points distribution. This
may have involved Richards as a WMSC member, we don't know for sure.
https://www.fia.com/news/wmsc-gather...-landmark-year
The proposal would likely have come from the WRC Commission, given it's a WRC regulation and not a general rallying rule and with so few manufacturers involved. Richards is not a member of these. There's also the WRC working groups, task forces and committees elsewhere, such as the meeting with drivers that Solberg chaired as Drivers Commission president. That was the meeting that had 80 ideas discussed, one of which is likely to be this points change.
Come to think of it, does Richards even have skin in the WRC game? He can't even be bothered to get a WRC round going as MSUK chief. It's possible he gets involved, he is on the senate I think, but I still think it's better to have
some evidence.