Predicting this year’s World Rally Championship is virtually impossible following the biggest shake-up to regulations and the calendar since 2022.
One of the key ingredients of the original Rally1 regulations is no more, after the FIA decided to remove hybrid power from the cars for 2025. After a long-drawn-out affair, during which hybrid was on and off the table on more than one occasion, rising costs to repair the control hybrid units from supplier Compact Dynamics has resulted in their demise.
