The WRC is eyeing an expanded 14-round calendar for 2024 with Saudi Arabia, USA and UK among the contenders
Photo by: Romain Thuillier / Hyundai Motorsportand is thought to be close to securing a new multi-year deal, while Mexico’s fate seem to hinge on if the USA’s bid to join the 2024 calendar is successful.
Plans to bring the WRC to the USA for the first time since 1988 have stepped up following a successful rally demonstration in Chattanooga, Tennessee in April - the host city for Rally USA’s bid -A full candidate rally is expected to be held in September where a call will be made as to whether the event is ready to join the WRC in 2024.
“If we are going to go to the US, we just need to go with a sporting context, but with an event. It needs to be more than just turning up with the cars and running a rally," he added. “They are very different, rallying is something we are going to have to educate them on. So having more show stages as they call them there, or the super special stages just as we do in Mexico.
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