[MikeWest]

It's not so much the money being down south, after all, they struggle to put on decent events down there. The Tempest Rally, last round of the BRC is there to placate the sponsors wanting to take rallying to the people rather than have them treking into Sweet Lamb or Kielder. The only decent event in shandy drinking land is the Sunseeker and that has stages that cut up badly.
The main reason for the WRC round going to South Wales is accessability and accomodation. York could cope as possibly could Chester but there isn't enough Forest milage in North Yorkshire, there's enough for a BRC round but not enough for the WRC. The same applies to North Wales. We ran the course closing car on the Astra Stages this weekend and whilst Penmachno and Clogaenog are fantastic stages you can't get the spectators in and out easily (oh and if you think the South Wales dibble are bad on speeders the muppet that runs the North Wales force is worse)
I think we have to accept that the good old days are gone as far as the old RAC is concerned and if you want to see WRC cars being driven hard go abroad or if you want to get close to classic rally cars and WRC's see you in Killarney at the end of April.