The World Rally Championship has identified China and the USA as its two key expansion targets for the future, with the latter in the running to join the series in 2025.
Establishing a return to the USA for the first time since 1988 has been a long-term ambition for the WRC, which is looking likely to come to fruition in the future through the Rally USA project, based out of Chattanooga, Tennessee.
WRC representatives are hoping to travel to China later this year to talk with several interested cities keen on hosting the championship in the future. "They remain our two strategic key targets. The US is the most likely to come in 2025 and then China as quickly as we can. "There is a process and an alignment with the ASN that has to be done and it takes some time, especially in the US, and this is something we have asked the FIA president to support us on this., said Thul."He has promised us to do it properly."
"From that to a WRC event in complexity and insurance, the US is an incredibly complicated market for insurance. We all know that the inherent risk of rallying is high and we have to be conscious of that.
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