Hi, I am very new to WRC but I am quite interested in it. Was wondering if anyone could explain what/how it works. Also where everyone watches it and how to get into the community a bit more.
Thanks!
So I was watching a YouTube video today, and they were talking about MSI Racing buying or wanting to buy some of Toyota's 2027 cars to compete in the WRC next year as a privateer team. My question is, when a privateer team races in the WRC, are they usually doing it more as hobbyists or " gentlemen racers" who have enough money to fund it themselves, like Patrick Dempsey or François Perrodo getting into high-level motor sports racing because they had the money and were also good enough to compete? Or is a privateer WRC team usually run more like a business where they're trying to bring in sponsors to cover the costs and hopefully make a profit?
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Hi,
about a month ago, the WRC announced the release of trading cards in partnership with SportZoo, a Slovakian company. As a lifelong rally fan and card collector, I had to get my hands on a hobby box. It delivered. I was extremely lucky with my hits (Elfyn Evans and Sami Pajari autos), but overall the collection looks good and a hobby box isn't particularly expensive (cost me 75 euros give or take). I think it's a great first step for WRC in this world of trading cards and I see genuine potential for it to grow and boost the popularity of the sport a bit. This year the sale was basically limited to Europe, but in the future I believe it will expand globally
Genuinely one of the most fascinating interviews I've heard about rallying, right up there with the ones that Nicky Grist has done recently. Dai gives a great account about what cars like the Audi quattro, Metro 6R4 and Nissan Pulsar GTiR were like to drive and compete with, as well as what the British rallying scene was like back in the day...
Some great ones like Gronholm's "Up in the *ss of Timo" or Panizzi's "he not sport! *Whistle sounds*" as well as some of the modern era come to mind.
Drivers are full of adrenaline at stage end and immediately are shoved a microphone in their face resulting in some great quotes across the years, an aspect I love about this sport. Glad the FIA stopped fining drivers for swearing at stage end.
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(Photo is interview of my country's broadcasting company back when Solberg was still racing)
I've heard plenty of suggestions of having longer yt highlights or releasing more free content. I'm interested in hearing some of your original ideas on how to improve sport as a whole. Now that we have a new promoter new changes could be coming soon, maybe they can pick up an idea or two.
Too little too late from the FIA, but I'm still optimisticly hopefull as WEC also had a pretty slow start to its latest success.