Hi, friends!

It's very exciting time around World Rally Championship at the moment. Some driver's movements are in the air and we are just waiting the confirmation of it. It could be very interesting to see where will some drivers go or will they be in the WRC world next season.

However, I don't remember the season with this exciting finish in the last decade and I follow this sport for 25 years at least.

Ok, we have two events left until the end of the 2018 World Rally Championship season - that one in Catalunya and Australia. First one is a mixed surface event with the first day on gravel and the last two days on tarmac. Australia Rally is completely driven as a gravel event.

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Back to Rally Catalunya... This rally is in the Championship for decades. First time I followed it, it was a full gravel event and I remember good that this was Armin Schwarz's first and last win ever. He drove for Toyota works squad back in the 1991. What a days it was back then. Great competition on every rally with at least six possible winners.

These days we have three or four possible winners but this season only three of them won in the WRC: Ogier and Tanak four times, and Neuville three times. It's interesting that Neuville is leading the Championship with least possible wins of all of them. It means that continuity is really making a sense.

It's really interesting championship finale. We will have to wait until the last special stage for the champion (my predictions). But first we have to see what will happen in Catalunya. This could be really interesting event because the championship leader starts first on the first day of the rally and we know it is gravel Friday. So Neuville will have to clean the road for others. But if it will be raining, Neuville will have an advantage. Ogier is not in bad position, however. If it will be dry, he will have some line from Neuville's tires and if it will be raining, he won't be long from the first car on the road, which is an advantage when raining.

However, if it will be dry, the cars that starts later, down the order, will have bigger advantage. So we could expect everything.

I already wrote that Volkswagen will debut their newly homologated Polo R5 with such names as ex WRC champion Petter Solberg (his brother Henning will also be there in the Škoda Fabia R5) and Eric Camilli (no bigger success but he drove for three works teams: Toyota, M-Sport Ford and now Volkswagen). I predict good fight between Solberg brothers.

Big star Ken Block is also on the entry list with the debut in the new WRC generation Ford Fiesta WRC 2018 (I guess it's the last EVO if he rents the car from M-Sport, and he does).

I don't expect anything big from Block. If he manage to finish the rally without Rally2 rule (retirement), it will be good. He was away from the WRC for some time.

In WRC2 category, beside Solberg brothers and Camilli, we have Škoda's works entry for Jan Kopecky who has the chance to secure the championship (if he wins there), and Kalle Rovanpera, the fast youngster from Finland. So, no Pontus Tidemand in the other Škoda car as he is closest opponent to Kopecky.

There will also be Citroen's works entry for their C3 R5 with Stephane Lefebvre behind the wheel. The car is still not quick as Škoda's or Ford's.

However, entry list is very promising and we can expect big fights in both categories - WRC and WRC2.

Thanks for photos and video to WRC.com and Youtube.