2022 World Rally Championship Thread
 

In the meanwhile waiting for the 2022 season of Formula 1 to start, WRC recently popped up in my algorithm of things to watch.

It has been a LONG time since I followed WRC, think I stopped watching it after Subaru made its exit.

So for the 2022 season, there are a lot of notable regulation changes for the WRC cars

-new hybrid system
-no more paddle shifters, have to use sequential shifter
-less suspension travel
-no more active center diff

And Sebastian Loeb making his return at the age of 47 and currently dominating the field

Don’t forget to subscribe to the CRC’s YouTube channel here. A bunch of local teams you might know in the western events.


And since Subaru came back to America, they do a nice cover of the ARC.



Videos posted above may not be the most recent, just whatever came up first in youtube

I'm excited to see what Breen can do now that he has a proper contract for 2 years. The competition between the drivers has really been heating up the last couple years, Loeb and then Ogier had pretty solid grips on the drivers championship for a long time but now it's a good fight between Ogier, Neuville, Tanak and Evans. I think it was Monza 2020 where anyone could've taken it at the final race of the season.

It looks like Redbull has their usual free coverage that's pretty good if you want to see more than the little highlights but don't want WRC+ https://www.redbull.com/int-en/live/...day-highlights

hmmm no active centre diff so I guess they have to fix the ratios before the stage? Sounds interesting.

Whelp, bad luck for Ogier.

Was leading the pack, suffered a puncture. And on top of that was given a 10 second penalty for jumping the start line.

Sebastian Loeb takes the win for Monte Carlo