Crystal ball predictions 2025

[WRCStan]

5. Hyundai will announce exit to priv team on 26, 100% out as of 2027; Neuville announces retirement after 2026

One year at a time maybe?

[AndersX]

One year at a time maybe?

Thierry, you, really? 😁 I meant that TN would say in the end of '25 that '26 would be his last full time in WRC.

[Managarium]

1. Toyota driver will be a WRC champion
2. Solberg WRC2 champion
3. Sesks will be at least once on a podium
4. Fourmaux will score less podiums than in 2024
5. Tanak will score more points than Neuville

[TWRC]

1. Rovanpera & Halttunen overall champions
2. Toyota as Manu champion
3. Ogier will not win a rally in WRC for the first time since 2012
4. No new manufacturer signals intent to join for 2027
5. Citroën, Toyota and Skoda will win WRC2 rounds, Hyundai and Ford will miss out.

[focus206]

1 - Rovanpera drivers champion and Toyota manufacturer champion
2 - Sordo will drive one (or more) goodbye rally before retirement
3 - Solberg wins WRC2
4 - One between Neuville and Tanak will announce retirement
5 - In the points sum of the 6/7 rounds Sesks will drive, he will outscore Munster + McErlean combined points of those 6/7 rounds

[becher]

1. Team order drama/tensions at Toyota with Ogier (=Ogier miffed because a full time driver is chasing him down and the team doesn't intervene or because he is asked to not attack a team mate)
2. Rovanperä wins Finland.
3. Pajari will win a event but Fourmaux won't.
4. Rovanperä drivers champion.
5.Rossel rents a Puma for CER.

[EstWRC]

1. Fourmaux starts the season well but then fades away
2. Solberg impresses Toyota and gets promoted to Rally1 machine fully from half season onwards
3. Kalle still doesn’t win Finland
4. Tänak announces his retirement cause Hyundai leaves and Toyota doesn’t want him
5. Ogier doesn’t have any punctures with Hankook and praises them

[AE1WRC]

1. Msport get a podium in Saudi Arabia
2. Rovanpera will get the most stage wins this year and the next best will be at least 30 behind him.
3. Solberg dominating WRC2.
4. Takamato will have his most consistent season and getting 5 podiums during the year.
5. Turkkan will surprise everyone with his pure speed with Rally1 (according to Dirtfish, Turkkan is planning to have 2 rallies with Rally1 one being Sardinia).

[CeskyOndra]

Let's do "Crystal Ball weather edition"

1. Snow in Monte
2. Very cold and dry Sweden
3. Big storm on Kedong stage
4. Rainy Estonia
5. Rainy Sardegna

[B group]

1.Kalle drivers champion and TGR manufacturer champion
2.TGR drivers win 13 of 14 events 2025 season
3.Solberg WRC2 champion
4.Sesks is the only Ford driver to win a stage.
5.Pajari first rally podium