EA SPORTS WRC’s latest update brought with it a raft of game and content updates, including a 2024 championship season mode, allowing players to simulate the WRC’s 13-round calendar.
As a bonus, 2024’s highly divisive points system has also been included, which we feel necessitates a bit of an explainer given its complicated nature.
The WRC’s 2024 points system explained
Essentially, drivers can score points on both Saturdays and Sundays of a rally. So, if a driver loses several minutes on Friday and Saturday’s stages and scores zero points, they can still return to action on ‘Super Sunday’ and aim for a maximum of 12 points. This consists of seven points for being the fastest across all of Sunday’s stages with an extra five points for winning the Power Stage.
Drivers can accrue a maximum of 18 points from Friday and Saturday’s combined loops of stages but they need to finish the whole rally safely to score these points.
The total number of theoretical points a driver can score across a rally weekend has not changed, however, remaining at 30.
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