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Rallycross will never attract that sort of fan. They are people that are two types.
Disillusioned about motor racing in general and F1 in particular, I see umpteen comments from younger race fans saying how awesome rallycross is and they never knew much about it before. That is the people reached by social media and better reporting, games etc.
And the Xgames, skateboarding youth generation that watch Dirt Shark, Monster energy, Supercross Monster trucks and the like and like drifting, Gatebil and the mod car scene.
It was even more awesome in the 90's and 80's, but those people have moved on and moved away or most of them have.
The lower levels are well supported in France and parts of Scandinavia, but not in the UK, they never have been really. Even in the GpB days rallycross never got massive crowds, only for one off meetings.
The situation here is not helped by the splitting apart of British rallycross 10 years or so ago, and now there are two separate series, not enough tracks and some tracks that only run with one series and not the other, it's pathetic, stupid and divisive, but there is nothing we can do about it as the people involved are so silly they can't see the wood for the trees. and are quite happy with their 40 or so cars at each meeting, 20 classes etc etc. Just poor.
You had the best advert ever for rallycross on Top Gear years ago! Bigger than anything IMG could ever do, and multiple mentions since then and what happened, people come in find a way to race and then find out there are two series with lowish entries racing over about 6 rounds each in different tracks. If you put them together you could have a half decent series.
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