World Rallycross Championship a.k.a RALLYX

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Why manufacturers actually left the sport at once? I remember there was so much promising with various brands, the championship was exciting to watch. Many drivers, many different contenders for winning. Then suddenly everything went down so bad.

Going full EV in 2023.

[deephouse]

Going full EV in 2023.

So, then everyone kept pushing it and practically forcing FIA to adapt these regs and then left them like some sort of evil beings. And I honestly think that this EV thing could fit mostly here instead of rallying (if it must be by some green standards). Although, seems like even such a short racing format isn't suitable for that powertrain, how could every other series could survive? Again another shoot in the foot.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Big time.

After the reduction in entries due to the new EV Regs, and then further after the fire destroying the Special ONE e-Deltas, this year they allowed ICE cars back in.

But this didnt attract any more teams, just some of the existing ones switched from EV back to ICE !

[saco0o]

Why manufacturers actually left the sport at once? I remember there was so much promising with various brands, the championship was exciting to watch. Many drivers, many different contenders for winning. Then suddenly everything went down so bad.

from what ive heard, it was a combination of several stuff. last promoter IMG had FIA backing and influence to "force" that apparent growth. but in the end, everybody that was brought to the sport realized that RX is just a small niche sport, not "the next big thing". you can see how f1 track promoters tried to join, how vw, audi, ford, peugeot were brought too. but nobody had any RoI. theres even a quote from Loeb somewhere, where he said people kept asking if he had stopped racing and he would go "No, im doing rallycross with Peugeot", kinda suprised nobody knew that. FIA promissed an electric class for the manufacturers but they never reached a proper deal (looks like vw wanted to build their car while Peugeot and Ford wanted a spec thing that turned out to be that Projekt-E thing.
but in general, everything was a bubble, inflate by money and this fake promisse of being the next big thing. they got 4 brands (bmw was rumored to be planning to join too), they got solberg, ekstrom, loeb, all the big rx families with teams (kristoffersson, larson, eriksson, hansen...) they got f1 tracks hosting races (big promotion expectations at the cost of losing touch with traditional tracks because now they would have to spend loads of money to become a 'world class track', not a clubman track)... and it went nowhere. i think this should be proof enough for FIA to just end this circus but NOPE, lets try it with 7 electric cars... oh, it failed again. lets try with 4 evs and 3 ice cars. nope, its not doing any better. this is so sad because it is such a fun sport to watch imo. cant wait till the day fia open their eyes. just go back to euroRX and let worldrx die.

[deephouse]

I saw somewhere that they're trying to find a way to cars being easily converted from rallying to rallycross and vice versa. Was that a thing in the past, as we saw many group B cars on rallycross competing long after they were gone from rallying? I have watched many races in World RX since its introduction (not so many last years because that stupid EV isn't exciting at all, all they do good is launch control, but on the curves they're boring). It was even broadcasted on some TV channels and then they stopped doing that and moved it behind a paywall. Why they never considered snow track? Still think that the championship does have many ways to improve. I think that all lost interest pretty much at once and that's it. Shame.

[saco0o]

I saw somewhere that they're trying to find a way to cars being easily converted from rallying to rallycross and vice versa. redd

i also heard that, but it was more or less in a way of choosing the same "type of car segmnet" that they want rallying and rallycross to go, like crossovers, for example. right now we have fiestas, i20, polos, fabias doing both disciplines, for example. so its nothing that interesting, i guess. im 99% sure they werent talking about using the SAME CAR to do both championships cuz that would be non-sense. its two different worlds when you get to the actual cars, set ups, safety rules

[saco0o]

Sorry that survey link doesn't work for me.

heres fia's post on FB
https://www.facebook.com/fia/posts/p...GBgwmvo5Cp3Sxl

[saco0o]

good content from wrx, the kms mechanics fixing the #1 car
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGmirSEa5MU

[saco0o]

extreme-e on hold for the rest of the season
they want to run a finale somehow in the end of the year but it looks like nobody has the money to spend on the current season with the E cars PLUS all the transition's costs for the H planning. weird.

[AndyRAC]

WorldRX in trouble, Extreme-E on hold, and WRC in a bit of a crisis........It has to be said, off-road motorsport isn't where it needs to be, and where it should be. Manufacturers simply aren't being drawn to it in big numbers.....