The “elephant in the room” of the WRC: part-time drivers

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Fact: Thierry Neuville leads the championship ahead of Elfyn Evans with Adrien Fourmaux in third and Ott Tanak in fourth. Four drivers with full-time WRC programs.

Do you know who won the four WRC races held so far this year?

Thierry Neuville, Esapekka Lappi, Kalle Rovanpera and Sébastien Ogier.

Three of them with partial WRC programs.

We are beginning to hear drivers who compete throughout the championship lamenting this situation, although it is clear that no one is breaking or even bending the rules.

Everyone is guided by them.

In Portugal, among the favorites to win the rally are Kalle Rovanpera, Sébastien Ogier and Dani Sordo.

Any of these three would be a ‘normal’ candidate, but in this test they gain a special ‘extra’: the position on the road.

It’s because? Because they completed half of the tests of the four drivers in front.

And the men at the front who are fighting for the championship don’t like it.

And they’re right to not like it. But they have to ‘play’ with it…

Ott Tänak said in Portugal that it’s not the drivers doing something wrong, but the rules that are wrong…

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