This involves the driversspanking their racing Toyota Aygos, Ford Focuses, Skoda Fabias and Citroens C3s round the town, all sideways drifting, squealing tyres and bubbling burbling engines. I don’t know ifthere isa Welsh word for that peculiarly miserable species of drizzle which the Scots call “dreich”, but we spectators were subjected to it a horrible dose of it. And the bit where you get to see the teams of mechanics descending on the cars for a service like just so many Amazonian killer ants was also a joy. I had to wonder why it takes my garage all morning to change the oil and filters on my Skoda, but I could watch theCitroen team virtually rebuild a rally C3 Aircross in half an hour. But all the time I was much more perplexed by the stray fact I’d picked up, in a trip organised for me by Citroen(properdisclosure there) that the Citroen C3 Aircross, a paragon of consumer value and green values under normal circumstances, does about four miles per gallon when in full rallyprep form. The broader aim is for the electrification of rallying to begin with the 2022 WRC, with additional costs for all the teams, whether shared or not. Earlier this year Citroen boss Linda Jackson said the company would have to reconsider staying in WRC if the current rules didn’t move with the times: “Because everything is changing and I don’t see how I can continue tosupport something that is without any reflection of what’s going on in society.” It would certainly be a loss to have Citroen abandon WRC, for them as well as the fans.
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