2024 WRC News & Rumours

[denkimi]

Sounds a bit crazy, would there even enough chassis around and the will by Toyota and Hyundai to offer/run them?

Why not? It's a year till then, they have plenty of time.

[Danny0405]

You don’t build a chassis just to be used one time.
And I don’t believe at all there will be 9 additional Rally1 in Paraguay

Maybe 9 people has asked how much it would cost but only a pair of them will be able to pay it - all the more that you have Chile consecutively so except if there are clients for running it in Chile, it will be more expensive.

[saco0o]

but its for renting. a chilenean fella rented a msport rally1 last year. it something like that. theres even articles from when Paraguay was confirmed about 2 or 3 paraguayans already talking about renting rally1s for '25. interesting to see if they will all get msports or cars from the other brands tol. they sure have a few of them at their shops

[becher]

Why not? It's a year till then, they have plenty of time.

Because there are likely not enough usable chassis around and the teams would have to charge a ridiculous amount to build up an old spare chassis for basically one event.

We also have three teams at the moment wich means on average three additional cars per team, that is not possible with the available staff and probably difficult for the respective facilities in the service park.

Additionally both Toyota and Hyundai rarely ever rented a car and ran it for their customer let alone sold one to be run by a private party. As far as I know there is maybe one Puma in private hands rund by someone other than M Sport.

Sure would be nice to have six Pumas, five i20 and six/seven Yaris but I don't see it happening.

[Co-driven]

One thing is sure, money is not a problem for these guys in Paraguay...

[Fast Eddie WRC]

I watched a video a few months back of a visit to M-Sport and I think I counted 8 Pumas in the workshop...

[denkimi]

Because there are likely not enough usable chassis around and the teams would have to charge a ridiculous amount to build up an old spare chassis for basically one event.

We also have three teams at the moment wich means on average three additional cars per team, that is not possible with the available staff and probably difficult for the respective facilities in the service park.

Additionally both Toyota and Hyundai rarely ever rented a car and ran it for their customer let alone sold one to be run by a private party. As far as I know there is maybe one Puma in private hands rund by someone other than M Sport.

Sure would be nice to have six Pumas, five i20 and six/seven Yaris but I don't see it happening.

The teams build the chassis, if they wanted to build 100 new ones they could do that.

I also doubt there will be 9 cars, but selling or renting old cars without hybrid is very well possible.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

eWRC shows the number of Rally1 car chassis that are active:

https://www.ewrc-results.com/cars/163-ford-puma-rally1/

https://www.ewrc-results.com/cars/16...-i20-n-rally1/

https://www.ewrc-results.com/cars/16...-yaris-rally1/

[Andre Oliveira]

2 Puma are of privateers.

[saco0o]

eWRC shows the number of Rally1 car chassis that are active:

https://www.ewrc-results.com/cars/163-ford-puma-rally1/

https://www.ewrc-results.com/cars/16...-i20-n-rally1/

https://www.ewrc-results.com/cars/16...-yaris-rally1/

jeeez! imagine removing all these hybrids, not adding 100kg of ballast, changing that rear wing for a simpler one, changing this exagerated general aero kit (body) for a simpler one and saying "these are the cars for 2025-26, no updates allowed".
if that would not attract smaller teams and privateers, then wrc is just dead