Ought to discussions be fruitful, the World Rally-Raid Championship can have a title for the perfect bike workforce in 2025. The FIM Jury delivered a discover to all workforce managers inviting them to debate the proposal on Tuesday morning within the Rallye du Maroc bivouac.
The FIM at present awards W2RC trophies to the champion rider and producer. Solely the premier RallyGP class has the latter, whereas the highest rider wins a title in all 4 classes (RallyGP, Rally2, Rally3, and Quad).
At first look, the producers’ title would possibly make it redundant to have a workforce championship, not less than in RallyGP. In spite of everything, the category is reserved for factory-level riders, that means their groups are often the marques themselves. For instance, the 2024 producers’ championship is a duel between Honda and Hero, whose RallyGP entries solely and respectively race for Monster Vitality Honda Rally Group and Hero MotoSports.
Nonetheless, the 2024 factors battle solely that includes two groups (in comparison with 5 in 2023) means the FIM is probably going hoping so as to add a team-based title to incorporate privateers and others. Such a call would even be extra sensible for Rally2, the place there are a plethora of outfits and riders usually tend to swap bikes whereas staying below their very own banner.
A workforce trophy doesn’t exist on the FIA facet of the W2RC, although the FIA Baja Cups have them. The European and Center East Baja Cups additionally had category-specific workforce championships for SSVs earlier than being expanded to all divisions in 2024. Alternatively, there is no such thing as a such award within the FIM Bajas World Cup.
The FIM Jury is overseen by president Jean-François Wulveryck alongside FIM Cross-Nation Fee member Gillian Dykes.
