7 times WRC Manufacturers had Seasons to Forget

We tend to remember the champions after every year, but what about the teams or drivers who had absolute stinkers? Here's a list of 7 Manufacturers that had seasons to forget! This list is not from best to worst, it's just seven instances someone had a stinker!
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[@JDW-wn9te]

I try not to remember Subaru's final 3 seasons. It was the same story pretty much 90% of the time. Podium contention after day 1. Mechanical problems & drop out of contention on day 2. Recover to minor points on day 3. The 2006 & 2007 Imprezas were pretty cars IMO, but good god they were absolute dogs mechanically!

[@mhh7544]

Seasons with Peugeot 307 would have made to my list.

[@Botomatic]

I think Nissan's 1984 season could quite easily be on this list. The team only had 1 podium finish and that was a 3rd place on the Ivory Coast rally which never had a particularly large entry. Aside from the one podium, they also managed only 3 top 5 finishes. The best thing you could say about it was the fact the factory cars for the top 2 drivers (Timo Salonen and Shekhar Mehta) were quite reliable but a lot of the other drivers Nissan employed that year had plenty of DNFs. 1987 was also a fairly poor season for Nissan too!

[@fontheking5]

The Lancia factory team pulled out after the 1992 season, after scoring 6 straight manufacturer titles : 87, 88, 89, 90, 91 and 92 😮 The 1993 Sainz effort was by a private team. Also the Corolla WRC made it's debut in Rally Finland 1997 👍

[@powerslidepodcast]

The 1992 cars were still ran by Jolly Club. As for the Corolla, yes it made its debut in 1997, in the video we say that Toyota took the year off to develop the car for 1998, meaning for a full-time campaign. The Corolla competed in the second half of 1997 as preparation for 1998.

[@fontheking5]

No, the 1992 Lancia campaign was factory, hence the Martini sponsorship in 92 aswell... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_World_Rally_Championship

[@powerslidepodcast]

The cars were still ran by Jolly Club, you can check it on Juwra. Also if you check Jolly Club's results, 1992 is missing because they were running the Lancia cars.

[@immodium91]

Sainz didn't seem to care about losing repsol sponsorship when going back to toyota in 1998, people seem to forget that him winning the 92 title was a small miracle and in its first year the st185 was a dog of a car, the deltona was the fastest car by quite a margin, great vid btw hope there will be more!

[@TheRUBrally]

Nissan 1992 should be here! Interesting video, anyway!

[@powerslidepodcast]

There's definitely enough for a part 2!

[@TheRUBrally]

@@powerslidepodcast great news!

[@ZeroHedgehog1996]

There's also Mitsubishi in 2002 and 2004

[@Chr.Monika6469]

I wonder what were Audi thinking when they chose the 200 to go rallying in 1987, instead of the Audi Quattro. It doesn't make any sense! The 200 was far from being a rally car

[@domink0079]

i want more videos like this , please dont dissapoint us

[@npiipo]

M-Sport's 2022 season could have been on the list. Making the slowest Rally1 car after suffering 3 years with the Fiesta only to score 119 points more than Katsuta's NG team. And not to mention the driver line-up of Breen, Fourmaux, Greensmith/Loeb.

[@OpeningBatsman]

Especially after how glorious the win in Monte Carlo was, Greensmith 3rd or 4th (??) in the driver's standings after Sweden if I'm not mistaken, the rest of the season was just sad tbh. You had Breen and Formaux crash constantly, Greensmith had a decent first half of the season and then went downhill (NZL crash was particularly depressing), and Loeb never available. Went from "we're so back" to "it's so over" in months.

[@MattyC_96]

Being an M-Sport fan from 2019 to the current day is tough . They had a couple wins last year but was plagued by reliability issues. Luckily this season , Adrien has been a lot more consistent. I do fear however how long Msport will last at the top level

[@npiipo]

@@OpeningBatsman Breen was 2nd on the road order in Sweden and Greensmith was 4th in the standings after it. Loeb's win gave them false confidence that the Puma was a winning car but it wasn't even possible to get podiums with those drivers.

[@HenryCheal-p7y]

Richard Burns. That is all.

[@gabrieleehh_]

That subaru downfall needs to be studied, from title contender to mid pack in only 2 years is crazyy🧍‍♂️

[@fontheking5]

Yes, the 06 and 07 had some major issues, not enough power, big handling problems, reliability problems, engines that liked to stall out, and were very reluctant to start back up again, which the earlier Imprezas were not. The 06 and 07 Impreza WRC had all the issues, the earlier ones did not have.

[@Chr.Monika6469]

And Mitsubishi's downfall was even worse. From being a title contender in 2001, to dead last in 2002, even behind ŠKODA 😂

[@russellmc8470]

What in the HITC sevens

[@MrMattock]

Peugeot 307