On 19 October the World Motor Sport Council replaced the WRC's Manufacturers' Championship with a Constructors' Championship, "opening the title to both traditional automotive manufacturers and independent tuners." The same release sets the price of entry: "Constructors will be required to participate in every round of the season." The 2027 calendar, published on 8 October with the Council's approval, has 15 of them, from Rallye Monte-Carlo on 21 to 24 January to Rally Saudi Arabia on 25 to 28 November.

Lionel Hansen runs Project Rally One, the independent tuner that showed its WRC27 car in September. On 24 September he gave Motorsport.com his number: "The target is to do, I would say, between four and seven rounds of the WRC." The floor came with a condition. "Four, especially if we are able to do Monte Carlo, is the minimum I would like to do because the performance can be there." Seven rounds of 15 is under half a season.

The rule the car has to meet

Title eligibility is not the only participation test. The Council's decisions of 10 December 2025 say "a homologated car must contest at least fifty per cent of WRC events in its first year with a minimum of two cars per rally, increasing to full participation across all events from the second year."

In August, with no 2027 calendar in existence, Hansen described that obligation as fifteen rounds in two years. The calendar now exists, so the sum can be done. Half of 15 is 7.5, which makes "at least fifty per cent" eight rallies, with two cars at each, before every round of the second season. Seven, the top of Hansen's range, is one short.

Neither the FIA's 19 October release nor the championship's account of it restates or amends the December wording. Flag & Clock found no 2027 WRC sporting regulation published in its place in searches on 21 October, so the December text is the most recent statement of the rule on the FIA's record.

A second title, sized for a partial season

The same meeting created another prize. The WRC Teams' Championship is "contested over seven nominated events", including "a compulsory overseas round and the season finale", and both new titles are restricted to Rally1. Motorsport.com's report of 20 October reads it as a championship Project Rally One and RMC Motorsport could contest, because both have "already indicated that they are unlikely to contest all rounds next year." RMC Motorsport is behind WRT Rally1 Spain, the second new constructor building a WRC27 car.

Seven nominated events matches the top of Hansen's range exactly, and sits one below the eight his car must start under the December rule. A Teams' campaign must also include the finale in Saudi Arabia in late November. Neither published account of the new titles defines "overseas" or says whether the finale can count as the overseas round.

The Kit route already runs the full season

The other way into the top class arrives at the Constructors' title by obligation. Appendix J Article 261A, published on 24 June, lets only a manufacturer registered for the WRC as a Constructor homologate the Rally2 aero kit, and in the kit's first year "he must participate in 100% of the events listed on the WRC calendar", with at least two cars at every rally. The championship puts the kit's maximum price at 7,500 euros. DirtFish reported on 20 October that M-Sport's 2027-specification Ford Fiesta will run in that WRC Kit Car category, and Ford's plan, reported on 1 October, adds a full factory programme from 2028 with an all-new car to follow in 2029.

So the Kit, if M-Sport homologates it for 2027, commits its constructor to the 15 rounds the title asks for. The purpose-built WRC27 car from an independent tuner is held to eight, and its builder is planning for fewer.

Hansen said in the championship's 19 September update that the car is on course for FIA homologation on 1 November. Monte-Carlo, round one of 15, starts on 21 January.