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The sport simply is not big enough to support two big series, IMG have decimated it through poor management and over optimism when dealing with manufacturers.
it is the same in the UK, people always argue in favour of two series, but I see no reason why.
there used to be separate series in Scandinavia too, and Finland still seems sort of aloof, but even there it is struggling a bit in some ways.
Get shot of IMG, go back to the roots, start building again, listen to drives and teams, have people on board who understand rallycross, what it has and can be, and make careful decisions for the future. Sadly people like Whittington were on board for IMG and still allowed them to totally ruin the sport. And they should hang their heads on total shame.
Manufacturers in small series are nearly always a bad thing, as are the company running the series building tracks and deciding where to race. look at things like A1GP, WTCC, IRC, all these series were fine before a huge media or marketing company got involved, started to rule with a different rod and now most of those series are so minor and insignificant. People always try and make something bigger than it has any right to be, and rallycros will NEVER be a major motorsport. It can be fun, exciting, quick and spectacular, but it will never rival MotoGP, WRC, F1, WEC or a few others.
All of their decisions are based around money, profit, marketing, none of them are based on fans, history, and a stable base to build from.
That has to be the start, but it will stay as it is because no one can afford to buy it, unless it fails completely, then it will naturally return as a new thing.
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