This is the Stattmann Baby!! Time to Scatt a little bit.

But he told me top rides in the WRC cost five million Euros – that’s $6.4 million U.S. – and he wasn’t interested.

McRae said there are only three top drivers getting paid in the WRC: defending champion Sebastien Loeb at Citroen, former champion Marcus Gronholm at Ford and former champion Petter Solberg at Subaru.

He said the rest are either buying their rides or driving for a minimum to light their careers on fire.

If factory involvement in racing is designed to improve or market the breed, what better marketplace than rallying: real cars on real roads?

Formula One and NASCAR are fun to watch but neither community is based in any reality. What’s real about billion dollar budgets or silhouette bodied taxis?

Someone’s lying to me about this factory racing thing.

Peace.