[WRC] 2025 News & Rumours

[wyler]

What a load of BS!!!
He could say it straight - M Sport Cars are so underdeveloped that they will never reach top 3. Or beter yet, give slower drivers a time handicap...

WTF??
and where this proposal would help?

it's just a "remix" of the first 3 drivers. will not affect slower drivers/underdeveloped cars anyway.

[COD]

WRC and ERC is quite different in this way. In WRC you have only 9-10 cars in the highest class (and only few of them able to fight for podium). Nobody else has a chance to be on top places. Most of the drivers is doing whole championship (ok, this year there were so many with not complete season), so championship standings can work. On the other hand, in ERC you have some regulars and plenty of locals (or guests) who can fight for podium and even a win. So proper qualifying is a need...

And if you look in last years in WRC, there was for a long time driver who was above the others (Loeb, Ogier, Rovanpera) so they need to find a way how to allow others to fight with them...

There are allways surprises on the shakedown stage, so quali is not a slam dunk. And drivers can make mistakes, so it would add to the show

[deephouse]

So as things stands we could get 2025 WRC season with major changes:
-New tire supplier
-Drop of Hybrid unit
-Shakedown stage become qualify stage
-Point system tweaked
-3 completely new events
-Ex champion coming back (so having Neuville, Tanak, Ogier and Rovanpera fight for title with addition of Evans and just ''maybe'' Fourmaux)
-Having detailed live data on events
-Remote service reintroduced

Considering that only few of those things is confirmed for upcoming season yet.

What they really need to do is to fix that RallyTV site/app. Just today it crashed/log me out around 10 times, very slow and unfriendly to user (still).

But bring it on upcoming season. Bring it on 2025 World Rally Championship.

[AE1WRC]

In the future when the older generation drivers (Thierry, Ott and Elfyn) retires, who can we see to promote to the top level. Obviously we would have KR (?), Sami, Sesks, Oliver. Who else ?
HOT TAKE:
What are your opinions about Ali Turkkan and the recent Rally1 news about him in dirtfish. I believe he is the fastest in WRC 3 but still needs to be more consistent but I like that guy's potential to be at the top level. In Turkish championship he is smoking everyone who is driving a Rally2 car by driving only Rally3 on both Gravel and Tarmac.

[PLuto]

What are your opinions about Ali Turkkan and the recent Rally1 news about him in dirtfish. I believe he is the fastest in WRC 3 but still needs to be more consistent but I like that guy's potential to be at the top level. In Turkish championship he is smoking everyone who is driving a Rally2 car by driving only Rally3 on both Gravel and Tarmac.

Too early to put him into Rally1...

[TypeR]

Too early to put him into Rally1...

Another rally1 entry would be cool, but...

Yes, he has pace, but.. 3 stages and off, 3 stages and off.. etc