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Originally Posted by flatlandsman
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Time will tell but something drastic needed doing if the WRC is to be sustainable in the long term. Neither Hyundai or Toyota will be around in the WRC forever; while they are to be commended for their commitment to date, manufacturers come and go and had any one of them decided to do something else, the championship will have died a years ago. Yes, we'll miss the current crop of cars and some will kick and scream in the short term and say it's the end of the world but they'll adapt in time. I wasn't old enough to know how fans felt when Group B got dropped but I daresay the reaction might have been the same: 'they've killed it, it will never be the same, I won't watch rally ever again etc etc'.
What's the alternative? I was more radical in my thinking a year or so back when I thought 'ok, make WRC2 the lead class, it won't go down well but it may it a viable in the longer run'