In the WRC2 category, a system is in place where each driver can accumulate points from only seven rallies during the season. Drivers can choose the rallies themselves, and the results from their six best rallies out of these seven form their total score.
This approach is unusual, as in the junior class for instance, all drivers have a fixed programme of five rallies, where everyone collects points from the same events. If anything, this system is at least fairer and more equitable.
Oliver Solberg, who leads the WRC2 standings, would throw the current points system in the bin.
“I don’t like that,” Solberg told DirtFish.
“I think everyone should just do the same rallies. I guess you have to be fast everywhere,” Solberg continued.
Currently, WRC2 drivers have the opportunity to select the rallies from the calendar that suit them best and avoid those where they are not at their strongest. This system, of course, goes against the very essence of competitive sport.
“The way I look at it, I don’t care about choosing this and this and that, because my goal is WRC. And then I have to be fast everywhere. It’s very simple. So I just try to do my best every different rally when I do in WRC, too. That’s it,” Solberg stated.
Solberg has already chosen his final rally from which he will accumulate points.
“Chile. I’m not afraid of saying which rallies I’m doing, because if you want to be the best, you have to beat everyone anyway, so I don’t care,” Solberg outlined.
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Citroen driver Yohan Rossel, who is also fighting for this year’s championship, is similarly frustrated with the current system. The top drivers too rarely compete against each other in the same rallies.
“I don’t know how many times I competed against Oliver, but maybe just two times during all the championship,” Rossel reflected.
“It’s never easy to know where you are. I think it’s the same for everybody. But for me, it’s not natural,” the Frenchman continued.
Solberg leads the WRC2 class by 28 points ahead of Toyota’s Sami Pajari before the final rallies of the season. Pajari has already chosen the Acropolis Rally in Greece as his next event, but after that, the Finn’s programme is still open.
The WRC continues in Greece in early September. Only four rounds remain in the WRC season.
