What could we achieve with new WRC route regulations in 2025?

FIA announced new guidelines for the WRC in its meeting in February 2025. Most of the big things were related to the technical regulations and car classes, but there were also new things for the events and routes, so let’s look at them more closer and with practical examples. And while we’re at it, let’s dream a bit, won’t we?

How would WRC events benefit from remote servicing?

Increasing remote servicing is said to be one of the new things pushed forwards by FIA. Of course, ad hoc roadside services won’t come back but maybe remote service parks like in the late 90’s? How could it be done at the most simplest? What kind of improvements or downsides would we see on current events?

Top 30 WRC Stages

We teamed up with Powerslide Blog to create a Top 30 list of greatest WRC stages. In this post I tell how the list was created, how it differs from other such listings and other statistical quirks. Finally we check if AI could have written this list better.

Jonne Halttunen’s Concept For WRC Event

Two-Time World Champion Co-Driver Jonne Halttunen spoke on YLE Urheilupodcast in Finnish about how he would change the structure of WRC events. He is focusing on condensing the action into a smaller package and getting more show for people to see. Here’s a sum-up of his ideas plus diving deeper into the details.

WRC Rallies with stages in multiple countries

The Central Europe Rally is going to be revolutionary with stages split evenly between three countries – Germany, Czech Republic and Austria. Or is it? Already in the past WRC rallies have had special stages in multiple countries. Let’s go through all occasions.

Collaboration: The Best WRC super specials

It Gets Faster Now! teams up with Dimitris from Powerslide Blog to list the best and worst super specials of WRC. For each category have picked four common favourites and three personal favourites each to create top 10 lists. In this post we present the best ones, and the worst ones are on Powerslide Blog. We also omitted super specials before the year 2000 because not all are digitally archived yet.

Countries with multiple WRC locations

Over the 50 year history of WRC, the series has visited 35 countries, but already 16 of them have hosted multiple rallies on WRC level, or had their national WRC event in separate locations. Let’s look at them in greater detail.

Long stages vs. Short stages

Long stages were a trend in rallying some years ago, although decades ago they were even banned! Nowadays it seems it’s increasingly rare to see a stage over 30 km, let alone over 40 km. What is affecting this and what benefits do we get from short or long stages?

Stage Repeats vs. Single Runs

For the last 10 years WRC has been run predominantly on repeated stages, with single run stages becoming increasingly rare (apart from short super specials). Why has this development happened and what are the pros and cons of each approach?

WRC event in three days – case Rally Finland 2020

Lately there has been a lot of talk about cutting the costs of WRC, especially in the exceptional times of COVID-19. Shortening the events by one day has been one suggested solution. Here is an example how Rally Finland 2020 could have been made one day shorter.