What would it take??

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NoCoast
Okay, I'm finally on a regular computer. Ironic how my post count will drop now that I usually am on here on a stupid phone...

Here is what it would take, and the club idea is only part of the idea...
Basically, first you need all the stakeholders to have a vested interest in local events.
A new nested system of local, regional, national. Drivers are seeded like it used to be. You cannot compete for championships until your seed is appropriate.
Local championship consists of one or more full stage rallies of >60 stage miles and as many rallysprint events as possible.
Local clubs pay only for sanction and insurance and are allowed autonomy with how they wish to operate outside of this. Each local club is allowed to select one event within their locale that will be part of the regional championship. Minimal annual license/membership fee.
Regional championship will be one event from each locality with a maximum of 4 events making the championship. (>4 local clubs means a rotating schedule of events.)
Any driver that placed in the top 3 in the previous years local championship is granted free entry at any regional event outside their region provided they compete in the full regional championship. They pay regular entry fee at their local regional championship event plus a regional championship license fee.
Each region picks one event to be their contribution to the National Championship. Only drivers that have placed in the top 10 in their regional championships in the previous year are allowed to compete for the National Championship. National Championship to not exceed four events. Entry fee due for within region but free for out of region events.

Local only events = route book only.
Regional only events = stage notes, no recce.
All National events = recce and stage notes.
Ie. An event that is part of local, regional, and national championship has recce and stage notes for everyone.

So, now everyone becomes a stakeholder. There is a meaningful local championship and people that don't want to spend boatloads of time and money rallying can compete for local championship. There is an incentive for continuing to support local events as it is seat time and gets you free entries for regional championships. Similarly for continuing to do regional championship if you want to be national championship.
Each locale has the ability to choose how they want to operate. One region might be club based with annual dues and voting and such. Another might have a company running the local championship as a business. It doesn't really matter, provided there is growth and good competition.
There needs to be: Live updates and post-event video production for every event and every championship.

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LexusFman
How would you get enough people to support the local clubs? There are lots of areas in the US where there are no rally teams (at least I think so)