WRC Fee (Feb. 5, 2025) – Media Replace
Media replace following the WRC Fee assembly on February 5, 2025.
The primary WRC Fee assembly of 2025 came about yesterday, Wednesday 5 February, through video convention. Key subjects of dialogue included the 2025 technique, the timeline for tenders and the event of the 2026 WRC laws, the plan and goals of the WRC Promotion Working Group and WRC Promoter’s imaginative and prescient for leveraging information and know-how to reinforce WRC protection and storytelling. The assembly was chaired by WRC Fee President Pernilla Solberg and FIA WRC Class Supervisor Marina Duñach.
The next is an outline of the important thing dialogue factors and choices.
WRC sporting updates
WRC sporting teams will restart on a bi-monthly foundation after Rally Sweden, with the said goal of finalising the drafting of the 2026 WRC laws by September for submission to the World Motor Sport Council in October.
The choice standards and obtainable choices for the Junior WRC associate from 2026, in addition to the attainable creation of a WRC4 class within the championship for registered Rally4 vehicles, will probably be thought-about by the Sporting Working Group. One other key dialogue level would be the definition of a framework, to be utilized from 2026, geared toward serving to WRC organisers develop rally itineraries that keep a greater work/relaxation ratio for crews and all these concerned within the championship.
Digital transformation for improved storytelling
WRC Promoter supplied a presentation on its technique for a greater use of know-how within the WRC to gather extra information and insights, with the purpose to create new instruments that profit all stakeholders and improve protection and storytelling.
FIA Security Job Pressure deployed for Rally Japan
The WRC Fee agreed to difficulty a Yellow Card, as proposed by the FIA Closed Highway Fee, to the Japan Car Federation (JAF) relating to Rally Japan on account of questions of safety encountered in the course of the 2024 version final November. Consequently, the FIA Security Division will deploy a devoted process drive targeted on coaching the marshals and enhancing the workflow between rally management and security crews on the phases.
FIA Head of Operational Security Clément Lauté additionally offered the brand new construction of the Closed Highway Security group in the course of the session. The group consists of WRC Security Supervisor and Delegate Nicolas Klinger, who now works for the FIA full-time, who’s assisted on WRC phases by Priit Priimägi, serving as WRC Deputy Security Delegate, in addition to the division’s new rent, Closed Highway Security Engineer Yann Dion.
WRC profitable crews to be awarded with FIA President’s Medal
As in System 1, the profitable crew of every WRC occasion will obtain a brand new FIA President’s Medal, beginning with the WRC’s Spanish spherical, Rally Islas Canarias. This initiative ensures that the FIA medal will probably be awarded as a part of the rostrum ceremony to honour the motive force and co-driver’s achievement, permitting them to maintain it as a private document of their success. The profitable crews of first three rounds will obtain their award retrospectively.
