WRC drops hybrid for 2025

TOM HOWARD

WRC The World Rally Championship will abandon hybrid-powered Rally1 cars from next season as part of the FIA’s extensive plan for the future of top-level rallying. Following months of discussion, led by the FIA’s working group, the concept for the series’ future was approved at last week’s World Motor Sport Council. The move has been made to address spiralling costs and declining entries in the Rally1 class, which was introduced in 2022 but will now not see out the planned five-year homologation window. The current Rally1 cars will continue, but will run without their control 100kW hybrid units, despite the FIA agreeing a deal with supplier Contract Dynamics until the end of 2026. As well as the drop in performance from the removal of hybrid, the cars will undergo a reduction in aerodynamics…

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