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Originally Posted by ArnageWRC
To be honest, at the moment with only 2.5 manufacturers, anything more than 10 events is too many & too expensive. Too many in the WRC think it's bigger than it actually is.
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The current situation reminds me a bit of the DTM - reliant on a small number of manufacturers and running expensive cars that can't compete anywhere else. Is the solution the same? Move to a more widely used ruleset for the cars, DTM went from Class 1 to GT3 - should WRC get rid of Rally 1 and use Rally 2 as the top class? More manufacturers have Rally 2 cars, there are a lot of Rally 2 cars out there and they're cheaper to run.
They also need to sort out the coverage - make more available free either on WRC.com or on youtube. It's no good hiding the coverage behind paywalls or on obscure TV channels if you want to grow the audience.
I think the basic product is good - but certainly there's a lot of work to do to bring WRC back to the levels it was in the past.